Social Policy and Community Action

• • Social Policy: what do they say it is?
  • Change and controversy over time
  • Who, what and when?
  • Policy actors and the policy cycle
  • "Problem making" and causality
  • "Don't think of an elephant": Language and rhetoric in social policy
  • Metaphor and social policy
  • Who is my neighbour? Community and values in social policy
  • Sorting through the evidence
  • Bringing ideas together: Making a start of policy analysis

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MUR-COD355A (Not currently available)
• MUR-COD355 (Not currently available)

Others

This subject is equivalent to COD355 Community and Social Policy, and, there are no requirements of prior completion for enrolling in this subject

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as COD355A Community and Social Policy.

This subject aims to equip you with an understanding of social policy, and how the policy context shapes community‐based work. The unit focuses on the intersection between social policy and community ‐ exploring ideas about the way political philosophies and concepts of community influence social policy formation and implementation, the attributes and limitations of the way policy is made, as well as the key role played by language in the social policy discourse.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

Students are asked to prepare written assignments that examine particular fields of interest in the social policy field, the influence of language in social policy and to explore how theory and practice intersect. The assessments are designed to build student skills in research, social policy analysis and community-based policy development.

• Policy Case Study (30%)
• Briefing Paper (30%)
• Online discussion participation (10%)
• Essay (timed open task) (30%)

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