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Study Details: Full-time: 12 months Part-time: 24 months
The course offers you the opportunity to improve your knowledge and understanding of the factors which shape social needs and the ways in which different societies have responded to these. This will enhance your research skills and enable you to undertake an independent research project on a topic of your choice.
The research training on this MSc has been approved by the ESRC (via the Scottish Graduate School in Social Sciences) as suitable for undertaking a PhD in the social sciences.
First or second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in Social Policy or a related discipline.
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Social Policy graduates are employed in a wide range of occupations, including:
The course has been designed to enable you to update and extend your knowledge of a wide range of social and welfare issues while also developing your practical research skills.
It will be particularly well-suited to individuals who wish to develop their methodological expertise in order to undertake research within the social and welfare services or to pursue opportunities for further postgraduate study.
Semester 1
Compulsory classes
Perspectives on Social Research
Quantitative Methods I
Welfare concepts & ideas
Semester 2
Compulsory classes
Qualitative Methods
Approaches to welfare: past, present and future
Optional classes
Advanced project module
Comparative Public Policy
International Institutions and Regimes
Other approved classes
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