Social Policy - JSM519

• Title: Social Policy
• Guaranteed by: Department of Public and Social Policy (23-KVSP)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 9
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 0 / unknown (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mirna Jusić, M.A., Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JSM727
• Interchangeability : JSM727
• Is incompatible with: JSM727

Annotation

English

Last update: Mgr. Miriam Kotrusová, Ph.D. (13.11.2019)

This graduate course should improve theoretical knowledge of students on social policy in present post-industrial world. The main perspective will be put on concept of " the welfare state regimes or models" and their practical consequences in different social policy areas, mainly employment policy, pension, family and long-term policies and policies tackling poverty problems. They will be analysed in the context of the European Union countries and the typical welfare state modes. The attention will be also put on the emerging welfare state regimes in the Central and Eastern Europe.

The course will be organised in the form of seminars (12) where students will actively work on topics covered in the recommended literature.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Miriam Kotrusová, Ph.D. (19.02.2020)

Kurz Social Policy probíhá formou seminářů, v rámci kterých studenti diskutují koncept "welfare state", seznamují se se základními typologiemi welfare state a současným problémy, kterým různé welfare state čelí. Tématem seminářů budou dále sociální rizika jako nezaměstnanost, důchody, rodinná politika, dlouhodobá péče, a způsoby řešení těchto rizik, příp. sociálních problémů v jednotlivých typech welfare state.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Miriam Kotrusová, Ph.D. (20.02.2019)

This course is designed to help students acquire knowledge about most challenging problems facing the European welfare states nowadays. After completion of this course, students should be able to:

-          Know theoretical concept of welfare state (its history, functions, threats).

-          Know how welfare states in Europe cope with the most recent challenges of the dynamics of (post)industrial society.

-          Understand what are the most important social problems and the policy implications in the present European states.

-          Understand the alternative options in social policy, analyze the links between the social, economic and political context, policy solutions, and impacts of the policies accepted.

-          Know pros and cons social policy reform in the Czech Republic in the process of social policy transformation in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Miriam Kotrusová, Ph.D. (18.02.2020)

F.G.Castles, S. Leibfried, J. Lewis, H. Obinger, Ch. Pierson: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford University Press, 2010, part II, VII, VIII

 

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (15.02.2021)

All students are obliged to:

• participate at least in 10 (out of 12) online seminars,

• fulfil 10 tasks in Moodle dealing with a seminar topic (handouts, questions etc.),

• present one topics within the seminars (presentation in teams)

• hand in essay.

The attendance of the seminars (10) is compulsory.

 

Tasks – A student is supposed to be prepared for a seminar topic covered by recommended scientific article/articles and answer questions or fulfill the task available in Moodle.  Such tasks will be evaluated with up to 4 points.  They have to be uploaded to Moodle at least one day before seminar, until 3 pm. 

Presentation - Teams of two or three students will present selected topics during the seminars. 

Essay -  The essay should cover one of the fields of social policy from a WS perspective. The length of the essay is approx. 24 000 to 30 000 characters (with spaces without references).

 

FINAL EVALUATION:

 

Construction of students’ performance evaluation

Activity	Points (up to)
Tasks (10)	40
Presentation	20
Essay	40
Total	100

 

Points (total)	Result
91-100	A	Excellent (výborně)
81-90	B
71-80	C	Very good (velmi dobře)
61-70	D
51-60	E	Good (dobře)
Less than 50	F	Fail (neprospěl)

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (03.02.2021)

Course leader and lecturer:

Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovska, [e-mail]

Lectures:

Joni Santeri Askola, MA, [e-mail]

Mgr. Mirna Jusić, [e-mail] 

 

Organization of the course:

17.2. Introductory Session (OA)

24.2. Seminar 1 Welfare state typologies (JA)

3.3. Seminar 2 New welfare state typologies Welfare state development in CEE (OA)

10.3. Seminar 3 Welfare state development in the late 80s and 90s (JA)

17.3. Seminar 4 New, active WS. “Enabling state” (JA)

24.3. Seminar 5 WS and value change (JA)

31.3. Seminar 6 WS and pension issues (OA)

7.4. Seminar 7 WS and family issues (MJ)

14.4. Seminar 8 WS and long-term care (OA)

21.4. Seminar 9 WS and unemployment (MJ)

28.4. Seminar 10 WS and the European Union (MJ)

5.5. Seminar 11 WS and redistribution: income differences and inequalities (OA)./Future of the WS

12.5. Rektorský den/ Rector´s day 

 

Entry requirements

Last update: Mgr. Ing. Olga Angelovská, Ph.D. (03.02.2021)

Conditions of enrollment:

The course is compulsory for students for Czech and English Master’s degree programs of Public and Social Policy. The course is also open to other MA students of other programs of Faculty of Social Sciencies.