Showing 35 courses for the subject Social Policy
Doing Sociology
SOSC102
SOSC 102 introduces students to sociology in action. Lectures cover a number of broad issues treated by the discipline: theorising, collecting and analysing data, ethics, structures and institutions, social divisions, everyday life, and social change...
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SACS103
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This course provides an introduction to the foundations of sociological thought and their application and relevance to contemporary society. It explores key sociological concepts and debates, such as inequality, social movements, ideology, colonisati...
This course focuses on the values and ideologies that underpin social policy and public policy in New Zealand. The course will examine the economic, political, and institutional arrangements within New Zealand which impact upon policy development and...
A multi-disciplinary survey of key methodological approaches and methods employed by social science researchers. The course includes critical discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of qualitative and quantitative approaches, ethics and the pract...
This course will examine the major influences on and developments in feminist theory and gender and sexuality studies up to the present day. Among the topics considered are: gender and sexual difference and diversity, sexual politics and sexuality, t...
This course draws on a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues as they relate to the grander dialogues that exist within social policy. Course content will include an exploration of issues such as power, knowled...
Social Policy and the Family
SPOL209
This course explores state and societal constructions of family and family roles through current political and social debates. In critically reflecting on social constructions students explore the relationships between and role of individuals, famili...
Social Inequality
SPOL210
This course engages with critical theories of social inequality and the approaches that can be taken to address inequalities, locally and internationally. The course equips students with the conceptual tools necessary for understanding inequalities a...
Reproducing Gendered Bodies
SOSC215
This course will examine gender relations from a sociological perspective. It will draw on a variety of approaches and perspectives to examine key concepts, issues and themes in contemporary gender studies. Readings, lectures and tutorials will focus...
Everyday Life
SOSC216
An introduction to the socio-cultural study of everyday life, offering a framework for analysing popular culture and ordinary social practices. Emphasis is on the temporal, spatial and embodied bases of social action.
This course focuses on the study of masculinity to explore systemic inequality, and the close relationship between gender and power. The course treats masculinity as a gender identity in constant transformation. We will consider social dynamics, such...
This course will focus on the politics of energy through a sociological lens. It will explore critical debates around energy and power, alongside responses to energy transition and climate crisis from community, scholarly, and policy perspectives. Sp...
Sociology of Health and Illness
SOSC220
The course introduces students to sociological approaches to health, illness, medicine and health care. A diversity of topics will be covered including health inequalities, health policy, health professions, the organisation of health care delivery, ...
Comparative Welfare Regimes
SPOL220
When seeking 'solutions to social problems', students of Social Policy need imagination and flexibility. Comparing different forms of welfare, and understanding how things are different in other countries, frees students from the constraints of a par...
Avery Gordon describes a haunting as ‘instances when home becomes unfamiliar, when your bearings on the world lose direction’. This course examines the haunted nature of classical sociology. First by interrogating colonial knowledge systems underpinn...
Reflecting on Violence
SOSC223
This course familiarises students with social theories of violence and security in various contexts, paying particular attention to the gendered dynamics of violence. We consider topics such as state violence, torture, terrorism, sexual violence, vio...
This course examines a range of notable sociological studies, exploring questions of historical context, assumptions about knowledge, methods, conceptual development, and critical debates. The course is designed to familiarise students with a number ...
Interpreting Society
SOSC304
This course introduces students to major sociological theories. Emphasis is on understanding theoretical ideas and how they relate to the construction and analysis of social issues.
Social Organisation
SOSC305
This course both empowers students to ask how systems and structures of power manifest through social organisation and to conscientiously engage in the world with a view towards transformation. Drawing from local and global critical theory and action...
This Indigenous sociology course introduces students to a methodology for studying colonial power relations across various public places and institutional contexts. Te Whenuatanga o te Tangata engages ethnographic methods to explore how land and peop...
Social Inequality
SPOL306
This course will allow students to engage with critical theories of social inequality and the approaches that can be taken to address inequalities, locally and internationally. Foundationally, the course draws from literature on intersectionality and...
This course introduces students to key ideas, debates, and contemporary issues in the sociology of knowledge. It examines the role of ideas, values, and beliefs in social life, and considers the sociological conditions that underpin the production of...
This course will focus on the politics of energy through a sociological lens. It will explore critical debates around energy and power, alongside responses to energy transition and climate crisis from community, scholarly, and policy perspectives. Sp...
Reproducing Gendered Bodies
SOSC315
This course will examine gender relations from a sociological perspective. It will draw on a variety of approaches and perspectives to examine key concepts, issues and themes in contemporary gender studies. Readings, lectures and tutorials will focus...
This course draws on a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues related to social policy. Course content includes an exploration of ideas such as intersectionality, power, knowledge, race and ethnicity, gender an...
Complicating Resistance
SOSC317
This course examines knowledge, power, and the importance of critical self-reflection as it relates to liberation and democracy. Students will learn to use a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues as they relat...
Social Movements and the State
SOSC318
Social movements and collective action drive social and political change, and reduce inequalities in society. This course will consider both historic and contemporary social movements and resistance. Various theoretical approaches to the study of col...
The course will equip students to debate the reliability of knowledge gained about the social world, to assess social scientific knowledge and to consider its effects on politics and social policy. This course prepares students for honours and studen...
Social and Cultural Theory
SACS402
This course explores the purposes and processes of, and debates around, social and cultural theorizing. Students will learn about conceptualization and about scholarly discussion of description, explanation, classification, evaluation in social and c...
This course reviews social and cultural research methods and analytical practices. Social and Cultural Studies staff members will draw on their disciplinary backgrounds to share a variety of methodologies and experiences of working with diverse commu...
Internship
SACS428
Approved and supervised voluntary work placement of the student in a public sector agency, private sector establishment, or non-governmental organisation with a focus on any of research, policy or service provision issues.
Research Project
SPOL489
In this course students will choose and conduct an independent research project and write an extended essay. They will receive individual supervision from a staff member, and also work as a group learning foundational research skills, such as formula...
Thesis
SPOL591
MA thesis in Social Policy.
Social Policy for PhD
SPOL690
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