GENERAL INFORMATION
  • Name of course :
    PUBLIC POLICIES AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
  • Qualification awarded:
    Diploma d'Especialització (Degree Universitat Barcelona)
  • Number of credits:
    30,00
  • Centre responsible :
    Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Length of course (in academic years):
    2
  • Mode of delivery (face-to-face/ blended/ distance):
    Blended
MANAGEMENT:

  • Estruch Manjón, Alejandro

RECOMMENDED APPLICANT PROFILES AND ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

People with a bachelor's or a postgraduate degree.

ADMISSION FOR APPLICANTS NOT HOLDING A DEGREE QUALIFICATION:

The course is also open to students with no prior university education, who will acquire the same knowledge and skills and receive a specific qualification for their learner group. Information on the access requirements and other conditions can be obtained from the course directors.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

General objectives:
- Understand and master the basic concepts of philosophy and political theory related to social democracy (ideological foundations, debate and thought trends, political and economic models), through analysis, work and dialogue.
- Be able to apply these concepts, together with rigorous quantitative and qualitative social research methodologies, to the analysis of social reality and public policies in a globalized and interdependent environment.

Specific objectives:
- Learn about the social-democratic ideological heritage, the concepts and ideas underlying it, the political and economic model on which it is based, and the needs to which it reacted.
- Know the dilemmas posed by the process of globalization and the progressive cession of monetary, economic and fiscal sovereignty of the nation-States to the European Union.
- Know the theoretical elements and the practical tools used to promote public policies and to exercise the function of political management in complex environments of network governance.
- Be able to contextualize social policies as a coherent and intimately interconnected system, resulting of historical, social and political processes.
- Understand how welfare States and social policies have been transformed in recent decades in relation to the emergence of new social risks.
- Acquire the methodological tools to analyse social policies, such as creating and working with indicators or analysing social problems and policies using various methodological approaches and techniques for obtaining and analysing data.

FURTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST
  • Enrolment fee:
    • First year:
      600,00 €
    • Second year:
      600,00 €
    • An increase of 10% is applied to the price, up to a maximum of € 70, as administration fee
  • In-company placement(s):
    No
  • Date on which pre-enrolment begins:
    12/1/2020
  • Date on which pre-enrolment ends:
    2/18/2021
  • Classes begin:
    2/19/2021
FACULTY OR SCHOOL WHERE THE COURSE IS TAUGHT
FOR FURTHER ENQUIRIES
  • Name of individual or institution:
    Alejandro Estruch Manjón
  • Address:
    John M. Keynes, 1-11 Despatx 6308
    08034 Barcelona
    Espanya
  • Email address:
    aestruch@ub.edu
  • Telephone:
    934021945