SOCIAL POLICY

Course Description

SOSYAL POLİTİKA

SOCIAL POLICY

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

No evaluation items have been defined.

Course outcomes

1. 01 They will gain an understanding of both their social policy analysis and their role as social workers to influence social policy changes in their organizations, communities and the world (5).
2. 02 Will be able to critically distinguish forms of oppression and discrimination (4)
3. 03 It will envisage advocacy and social change strategies to achieve social justice (4)
4. 04 They will be equipped with both social policy analysis and their own roles as social workers to influence social policy changes in their organizations, communities and the world (5)

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 1. Jansson, B. (1994). Social Policy: From Theory to Policy Practice. (2nd edition). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing 6.
2. 02 2. Lowe, G. R. (1999). Professionalization of Poverty: Social Work and the Poor in the 20thCentury. Aldine De Gruyter.
3. 03 3. Şahin, F. (2000). Sosyal Hizmet Uzmanlarının Sosyal Politika Süreçlerine Katılımı. Ankara, Aydınlar Matbaası.
4. 04 4 HÜ SHB (2014). "Sosyal Hizmet ve Toplumla Çalışma" Doç. Dr. Şener KOÇYILDIRIM'a Armağan. Ed.: Prof. Dr. Vedat IŞIKHAN. Ankara, SHARUGED.

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 It aims to provide students with a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, issues and common fallacies of social policy.
2. L01 They describe the basic concepts of social policy (2) SOLO 2
3. L02 Students undertstand the welfare states and its relevance.
4. L02 They describe the relation between social services, social welfare and social policy (2) SOLO 2
5. L03 Explain the basics of social policy (3) SOLO 3

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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