Online Course
Poverty & Population: How Demographics Shape Policy
Columbia University via Coursera
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The course is part of a sequence in social policy that has an HONORS TRACK. This track will prepare the learner for masters-level work in policy, which involves reading the literature, writing concise summaries and probing critiques. Over the sequence the learner will develop a policy analysis that will create a foundation for professional policy analyst assignments.
Syllabus
-This module will remind the reader of basic social welfare concepts: population variables, earning, income, assets as well as inflation, unemployment and the minimum wage.
Causes of Poverty and Discrimination
-This module will probe the most important social welfare programs in moderns societies, the workplace and will evaluate who is advantaged and who is disadvantaged and why
Gender, Race and oppression
-In this module, the learner will differentiate the different measures of poverty, understand the significance of measuring poverty and question the place of various demographic groups in their relative poverty
Formulating social policy in the U.S.
-In this module, the learner will review the US Government structure and process and explain how policies are formulated using the legislative structure.
Taught by
John Robertson
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