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Qualifications and durations
- Full-time MSc 1 year
- Full-time PG Diploma 9 months
- Part-time MSc 2 years
- Part-time PG Diploma 21 months
Overview
The programme examines:
- patterns of social policy development in different countries and world regions, in response to globalisation and socioeconomic change
- emerging forms of global social policymaking through the major international organisations: for example the UN, the WHO and the ILO
- theories of governance, national social policy making and welfare regimes
- techniques and methodology of social policy analysis.
The programme gives central attention to the links between social policy and economic development: on the one hand, the rise of knowledge-based economies; on the other, new insecurities and risks accompanying globalisation.
The programme aims:
- to prepare students to go into employment with Masters level training in social research and policy analysis
- to offer those who are mid-career, opportunities to upgrade their qualifications
- to encourage students to proceed to advanced research training at the level of MPhil/PhD.
The programme will involve a number of joint activities with international organisations and partner universities in Europe, East Asia and elsewhere, including an annual vacation school. Students who achieve good results will be facilitated in securing an internship after the end of the programme with one of these partners.
Academic entry requirements
Applicants for the programme must normally have been awarded a university degree to a good standard or have obtained relevant professional or academic qualifications.
English requirements
IELTS 7.0 (with not less than 6.5 in each of the four components).
TOEFL 600 (paper-based test) or 250 (computer-based test) with a score of not less than 4 in TWE or 100 (internet-based test) with not less than 24 in each of the components.
Contact Postgraduate Secretary
Email sps-pgt@bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1225 383203
Fax +44 (0)1225 383423
Web www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/misp
Fees in 2008-9
FT MSc H £4000 O £10300
FT Dip H £2660 O £6880
FT Cert H £1330 O £3440
PT MSc H £2000 O £5150
PT Dip H £1330 O £3440