EU SOCIAL POLICY
- Course
- INR442 - EU SOCIAL POLICY
- Department
- International Relations - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 6
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
- -
Course Description
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EU SOCIAL POLICY
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Intro to course and subjects |
| Week 2 | Social Welfare system across Europe |
| Week 3 | What is the welfare state-European models of welfare states |
| Week 4 | drivers of chnage and dilmmas for the welfare state |
| Week 5 | visions for the welfare state and strategies for achieving them |
| Week 6 | Social policy of the EU |
| Week 7 | midterms |
| Week 8 | European social policy-supranational |
| Week 9 | diversity, similarity, commonality-member states' social policies and EU social policy |
| Week 10 | continuation |
| Week 11 | present and the future of EU |
| Week 12 | EU's economic governance in 2016: beyond austerty |
| Week 13 | revision |
| Week 14 | finals |
| Week 15 | - |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 “Social welfaresystems across Europe”, The SensAge project (2014), (17 p)
- 02 "Research Paper, Iain Begg, Fabian Mushövel and Robin Niblett Europe Programme | September 2015, The Welfare State in Europe Visions for Reform, Chatham House-The Royal Institute of International Affairs (29 p) "
- 03 Persida CECHIN-CRISTA etal, “The Social Policy of the European Union”, International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 4 No. 10 [Special Issue – August 2013] (10 p)
- 04 Stanisława Golinowska Peter Hengstenberg Maciej Żukowski (Ed), (2009), Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies: The Forging of a European Social Model, WYDAWNICTWO NAUKOWE SCHOLAR, FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG, Warsaw , 5-Vanhercke B., Sabato S. and Bouget D. (eds.) (2017), Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2017, Brussels, European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Social Observatory (OSE), 237 p.
Learning Outcomes
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Program Outcomes
- 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.
- 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.
- P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
- P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
- 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.
- P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
- P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
- P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
- P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
- P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
- 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.
- P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.
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