BA IN PUBLIC AND SOCIAL POLICY

Modules and Structure

Indicative Modules

First Year

Semester 1

SP128 Introduction to Politics and Society
EC135 Principles of Microeconomics
EC106 Introduction to Research for Public and Social Policy
LW121 Irish Legal Systems

Semester 2

SP129 Social and Political Change
EC136 Macroeconomics
LW337 Administrative Law
SP109 Public and Social Policy in Ireland

Second Year

Semester 1

LW227 Constitutional Law
EC215 Microeconomics
EC229 Quantitative Methods in Economics
SP216 European Politics
EC225 Economics of the Welfare State

Semester 2

LW228 Constitutional Law II
SP215 Modern Political Thought
SP235 Social Issues and Policy Responses
EC217 Macroeconomics
EC226 Cost Benefit Analysis
LW405 Health Law and Policy

Third Year

Semester 1

SP508 Theories of the Policy Process
LW408 European Community Law I
EC349 Economic Theory
SP404 Development and Change

...and choose 2 courses from these options:

Political Science & Sociology Options
SP352 US Politics
SP407 Sociology of Work
SP416 Environmental Politics & Policy
SP419 Marxist Theory
SP421 Women in Irish Society
SP423 Sociology of Deviance
SPxxx Northern Ireland: The Politics of a Divided Society
SPxxx Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State
SP446 Data Analysis for the Social Sciences
SP449 Mexican Politics & Society
SPxxx Identity and Self
SP459 Irish Administrative System
SP491 Sociology of Ethnicity & Nationalism
SP504 Topics in Political Philosophy
SP690 Development & Communities
SP507 Theories of the Welfare State
SP590 The Politics of Poverty
SPxxx Social & Political Context of Activism and Advocacy
SP618 Welfare Words: Key Words in Social Work and Social Welfare
SP619 Ageing, the Life Course and the Sociology of Wisdom
SP634 Families Across Frontiers
SP687 The Theory & Politics of Contemporary Egalitarianism
SP498 The Sociology of Religion
SPxxx The Power of Story & Narrative
SP496 Anthropology of Migration and Diasporas
SP448 Ethnic Conflict & Territory

Economics Options
EC381 Game Theory and Industrial Organisation
EC383 Regional and Urban Economics
EC345 Health Economics
EC382 International Economy
EC409 Irish Economy

Law Options
LW312 Family Law (year-long module)
LW212 Labour Law I
LW309 Criminal Law I
LW343 International Protection of Human Rights
LW354 Media Law
LW357 Environmental Law I
LW365 Criminology
LW116 Public Law II

Semester 2

EC386 Public Economics
SP305 Comparative Public Policy
SP514 Policy Seminar
LW412 European Community Law II

...and choose 2 courses from these options:

Political Science & Sociology Options
SP414 Social Stratification & Inequality
SP421 Women in Irish Society
SPxxx Northern Ireland: The Politics of a Divided Society
SPxxx Ethnicity, Nationalism and the State
SP451 Co-operation and Conflict
SP529 Sociology of War
SPxxx Power
SP470 Politics in the Republic of Ireland
SP483 EU Policy
SP487 Agrarian Politics
SP486 Medical Sociology
SP493 Environmentalism
SP456 Korean Politics
SP507 Theories of the Welfare State
SP592 Understanding Strangers
SP598 ’Modernising’ Social Work & Social Care
SP691 Genetics & Justice
SP469 Political Anthropology
SP586 Sociology of Sexuality
SP635 The Abnormal: the Sociology & Politics of Difference
SP479 Politics & the Internet
SP689 Childhood & Children’s Rights
SP692 Minor Dissertation

Economics Options
EC388 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
EC418 European Economy
EC363 Econometrics
EC350 Research Project
EC378 Economics of Technological Change
EC362 Economics of Financial Markets
EC385 Advanced Economic Theory

Law Options
LW370 Comparative Disability Law
LW358 Environmental Law II
LW394 Criminal Justice
LW312 Family Law
LW385 European Human Rights
LW216 Labour Law II
LW413 Criminal Law II

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