Session

Winter 2025

 Term

W

Format

SEMR

Instructor

Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite

The course analyzes social policy in Canada, seen in the context of social policy developments in other areas of the world. The major focus is on challenges for Canadian social policy in the current era. Topics to be examined may include, for example, the impact of the turn to neoliberalism, growing class, gender, racial and other inequalities, the economic crisis and austerity, and possible responses and alternatives. This course assumes that students have some background in Canadian government and politics.

Course Start Up

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