Social Policy (2018)

Social Policy provides students with an interdisciplinary perspective on key social issues of policy concern and opens up possibilities of employment in areas such as governmental social policy agencies, local bodies, non-governmental organisations and the private sector.

Students may choose from a combination of core and elective papers in Economics, Education Studies, Labour Studies, Political Science and Public Policy, Population Studies, Social Science Research, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies which, when combined, offer theoretical and applied approaches to the study of social policy issues.

Social Policy is available as a major for the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Social Sciences. Social Policy may also be taken as a second major or as a minor with other undergraduate degrees, subject to academic approval of the Faculty in which the student is enrolled.

To complete Social Policy as a single major for the BA or BSocSc, students must gain 135 points from papers listed for Social Policy, including 105 points above 100 level, and 60 points above 200 level. Students must include SOCPY100, SOCPY200, SOCPY201, SOCPY300 and SOCPY301.

To complete Social Policy as part of a double major, students must gain 120 points from papers listed for Social Policy, including 90 points above 100 level, and 45 points above 200 level. Students must include SOCPY100, SOCPY200, SOCPY300 and SOCPY301.

To complete a minor in Social Policy students must complete SOCPY200, SOCPY300 and a further 30 points from the papers listed for the Social Policy major.

Enquiries about undergraduate, diploma and graduate programmes in Social Policy should be directed to the Programme Convenor.

• 100 level
• 200 level
• 300 level
• Prescriptions for the GradCert(SocPol) and GradDip(SocPol)
• Prescriptions for the PGCert(SocPol), PGDip(SocPol) and BSocSc(Hons) and MSocSc
• Prescriptions for the PhD

• 100 level

  • ARTSC101 - 18B (HAM) & 18B (TGA)  - Indigenous Social Science Research
  • ARTSC102 - 18A (HAM)  - Arts Affects<>Effects
  • ARTSC103 - 18A (HAM), 18A (TGA) & 18B (HAM)  - Rights and Reasons
  • ARTSC104 - 18A (HAM) & 18B (HAM)  - Undergraduate Research Writing for ESL Students
  • ARTSC110 - 18A (HAM)  - Old Worlds - New Worlds
  • ARTSC111 - 18B (HAM) & 18B (TGA)  - Social Science Theory and Action
  • ECONS102 - 18B (HAM)  - Economics and Society
  • POLCY105 - 18B (HAM)  - People and Policy
  • SOCIO101 - 18A (HAM) & 18A (TGA)  - Introduction to Sociology
  • SOCPY100 - 18A (HAM) & 18A (TGA)  - Introduction to Social Policy
  • WGSTS101 - 18B (HAM)  - Women in Society: Representations and Realities

• 200 level

  • EDSOC200 - 18A (HAM) & 18A (TGA)  - Education and New Zealand Society
  • LABST201 - 18A (HAM)  - Employment Relations in New Zealand
  • POLCY212 - 18B (HAM)  - Public Policy: International Perspectives
  • POPST201 - 18A (HAM) & 18A (NET)  - Population Studies
  • SOCIO202 - 18A (HAM)  - Class, Race, Gender
  • SOCPY200 - 18B (HAM) & 18B (TGA)  - Social Policy and Social Issues
  • SOCPY201 - 18A (HAM) & 18A (TGA)  - Social Policy, Families and Children
  • SOCWK205 - 18A (TGA)  - Community Development
  • SSRP202  - The Practice of Social Science Research

• 300 level

  • ECON313  - Economics of Human Resources and Public Policy
  • ECON315 - 18A (HAM)  - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
  • FASS396 - 18C (BLK) & 18D (BLK)  - Work Placement
  • LBST301 - 18A (HAM)  - Globalisation and International Development
  • LBST331 - 18A (HAM), 18A (NET) & 18A (TGA)  - Education, Skill and Employment
  • POPS302 - 18B (HAM) & 18B (NET)  - Exploring Population Change
  • SOCP302 - 18B (HAM) & 18B (TGA)  - Social Policy
  • SOCP304 - 18B (HAM)  - Health, Wellbeing and Policy
  • SOCP389 - 18A (HAM), 18B (HAM), 18S (HAM) & 18T (HAM)  - Directed Study
  • SOCP390 - 18A (HAM), 18B (HAM), 18S (HAM), 18T (HAM) & 18Y (HAM)  - Directed Study
  • SOCW305 - 18A (TGA)  - Community Development
  • SOCY301 - 18A (HAM)  - Contemporary Social Theory: A Praxis Approach
  • SOCY311 - 18B (NET)  - Criminology: A Sociological Introduction
  • WGST303 - 18B (HAM)  - Gender, State and Public Policy

• Prescriptions for the GradCert(SocPol) and GradDip(SocPol)
  A Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma are available to graduates who have not included Social Policy at an advanced level in their first degree. Each programme of study for the Graduate Certificate must include SOCP206 and SOCP302. Each programme of study for the Graduate Diploma must include SOCP206, SOCP302, SOCP304 and 40 further points at 300 level in Social Policy.

  For further details, contact the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office.

• Prescriptions for the PGCert(SocPol), PGDip(SocPol) and BSocSc(Hons) and MSocSc
  To be eligible to be considered for enrolment in a BSocSc(Hons) in Social Policy, a student should normally have at least a B average in SOCP302 and two other 300 level papers. Students who do not meet this requirement should discuss their proposed programme of study with the Programme Convenor prior to confirming their enrolment.

  To complete a BSocSc(Hons) in Social Policy, students must gain 120 points at 500 level, including at least 30 points in research (normally SOCP591), SOCP506, SOCP508, and SOCY502.

  To be eligible to be considered for enrolment in the MSocSc in Social Policy, a student should have completed either:

  a) a BSocSc with a major in Social Policy (or equivalent) and have gained at least a B+ average in either the best three of their 300 level Social Policy papers or all of their undergraduate Social Policy papers, or

  b) a BSocSc(Hons) in Social Policy (or equivalent) and have gained at least a B+ average across all 500 level papers.

  Completion requirements for the MSocSc in Social Policy vary according to admission criteria:

  Students admitted under a) above must complete 180 points from approved 500 level papers, including SOCP506, SOCP508, SOCY502, one of SSRP503 or SSRP504 and either a 120 point thesis, a 90 point thesis or a 60 point dissertation.

  Students admitted under b) above must complete a 120 point thesis, a 90 point thesis and a further 30 points from approved 500 level papers, or a 60 point dissertation and a further 60 points from approved 500 level papers.

  To be considered for enrolment in a dissertation or thesis, all students must have completed at least 60 points from approved 500 level papers and have gained at least a B+ average to be admitted to SOCP592 or SOCP593 and at least an A- average to be admitted to SOCP594.

  • DEVS504 - 18A (NET)  - State Policies on Indigenous Development
  • HDCO501  - Ageing and Society
  • LBST531 - 18A (HAM)  - Advanced Employment Relations 1: The Employment Relations Framework
  • LBST532 - 18B (HAM)  - Advanced Employment Relations 2: Current Policies and Practices
  • LBST541 - 18A (HAM)  - Labour, Education and Training 1: Issues and Policies
  • PCSS508 - 18A (HAM)  - Education Policy and Society
  • POLS501 - 18A (HAM)  - The Policy Process and Policy Analysis
  • POLS537 - 18A (HAM)  - Environmental Politics and Public Policy
  • POPS507 - 18A (HAM)  - Critical Demography
  • POPS508 - 18B (HAM)  - Population Health and Equity
  • PSYC511 - 18A (HAM)  - Evaluation Research Design
  • PSYC513 - 18C (BLK)  - Evaluation Research Analysis
  • PSYC518  - Family Violence: Research and Interventions
  • SOCP506 - 18B (HAM)  - Social Policy: Comparative Approaches
  • SOCP508 - 18B (HAM)  - Techniques for Policy Analysis
  • SOCP509 - 18B (HAM)  - Comparative Criminology: Issues and Policy
  • SOCP589 - 18A (HAM), 18B (HAM) & 18S (HAM)  - Directed Study
  • SOCP590 - 18A (HAM), 18B (HAM) & 18Y (HAM)  - Directed Study
  • SOCP591 - 18C (HAM)  - Dissertation
  • SOCP592 - 18C (HAM)  - Dissertation
  • SOCP593 - 18C (HAM)  - Social Policy Thesis
  • SOCP594 - 18C (HAM)  - Social Policy Thesis
  • SOCY502 - 18A (HAM)  - Society, Economy and State
  • SOCY503 - 18A (NET)  - Criminology from a Sociological Perspective
  • SOCY505 - 18B (HAM)  - Globalisation and Social Movements
  • SSRP503 - 18B (HAM)  - The Conduct of Social Science Research: Qualitative Research
  • SSRP504 - 18A (HAM)  - The Conduct of Social Science Research: Survey Research
  • WGST507 - 18B (HAM)  - Gender, Policy and Development

• Prescriptions for the PhD
  The Doctor of Philosophy is a three year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality.

  • SOCP900 - 18C (HAM)  - Social Policy PhD Thesis

2018 Catalogue of Papers information as of 20 September 2017 4:40pm