COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WELFARE STATE AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 6088 WELFARE STATE AND ITS APPLICATIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MERVE KAYADUVAR

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

To address the conceptual debates on the welfare state and social policy practices. To learn the emergence and historical development of the welfare state.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn the theoretical debates on the welfare state.
2   To learn the concept of social policy, the subject of social policy and the historical development of social policy.
3   To learn the relationship between welfare state and social policy.
4   To learn the types of welfare states and practices in different welfare states.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is the welfare state
2 Historical development of the welfare state
3 The concept of Social Policy and the theoretical discussions on the concept
4 Historical development of social policies
5 Welfare state types and applied social policies
6 Liberal Welfare States
7 Conservative Welfare States
8 Social Democratic Welfare States
9 The crisis of the welfare state and neoliberal transformation
10 Social policy in the EU
11 Welfare state and social policy in Türkiye
12 Health, education and housing policies
13 Students' presentation
14 General discussion about the course

Recomended or Required Reading

KORAY, M. 2008. Sosyal Politika.
Çelik, A. 2014. Avrupa Birliği Sosyal Politikası ve Türkiye.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555
LO.25
LO.355
LO.45