FVP:UVSRPVK028 Social Policy I - Course Information
UVSRPVK028 Social Policy I
Faculty of Public Policies in OpavaWinter 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Helena Kolibová, CSc.
Institute of Public Administration and Social Policy – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Public Administration and Regional Policy (programme FVP, B6731-SPSP)
- Course objectives
- The course presents principal concepts of theory of social policy, explains characteristics of subjects and objects of social policy, outlines of instruments, which the social policy uses for fulfilling its targets.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to social policy
2. Participants, functions, principles and instruments of social policy
3. Development of social policy
4. Causes of differences and models of social policy
5. Social security as the basis of social policy
6. Concept of social state
7. Crisis and returns of social state
8. Origin and types of social events
9. Position of social policy and its understanding in European community
10. Unemployment as social event
- 1. Introduction to social policy
- Literature
- required literature
- Kolibová.H. Sociální politika 1. Opava: Optys, 2007. info
- Krebs, V. Sociální politika. Praha: Aspi, 2002. info
- BRDEK, M. Trendy v evropské sociální politice. Praha: Aspi, 2002. ISBN 80-86395-25-1. info
- Čapeková, M. Sociální politika. Bratislava: EF, 2001. info
- HILL, M. Undestanding Social Policy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. info
- BRDEK, M., JÍROVÁ, H. Sociální politika v zemích EU a ČR. Praha: CODEX BOHEMIA, 1998. ISBN 80-85963-71-X. info
- Kotous, J. Úvod do sociální politiky. Praha: UK, 1997. info
- Musil, L. Vývoj sociálního státu v Evropě. Brno: Doplněk, 1996. info
- BARR, N. The Economics of the Welfare State. California: Stanford University Press, 1987. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion - Assessment methods
- The analysis of student 's performance
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Přednáška 9 HOD/SEM. - Teacher's information
- News regarding the topic of social policy.
Qualified participation in discussions in seminars.
Seminar work - usage of comparison for orientation in partial issues of social policy.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2015, recent)
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