Columbia University
Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization
Columbia University

Social Policy for Social Services & Health Practitioners Specialization

Social Welfare Policy for Practitioners & Citizens. For health practitioners, educators, social service providers: anyone who works with people or votes

John Robertson

Instructor: John Robertson

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4.8

(350 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Compare historical, intellectual and cross-national perspectives on the size, structure and outcomes of U.S. social policy

  • Demonstrate knowledge of U.S. social welfare policy and its economic, social, and political contexts, in order to be an engaged citizen

  • Differentiate the various levels and structures of public benefits, and the social justice impact on people receiving them

  • Formulate skills in social policy implementation in order to be more effective in professional practice

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Specialization - 2 course series

US Social Services: Where did they come from?

Course 114 hours4.9 (58 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Differentiate the roots of public aid including the “deserving poor” and the “undeserving poor”

  • Explain technological transformation has impacted on work, incomes & families to understand the needs of those seeking services and to reform system

  • identify the role of privilege and White Supremacy in the social welfare systems to transform the system to a more inclusive structure

  • Honors: Summarize and critique readings to professionally interpret them. Develop a research plan for a professional policy analysis.

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Category: Human Learning

Health, Housing, and Educational Services

Course 214 hours4.8 (71 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe the structures of US policy in each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection

  • Explain the issues involved in developing policy in each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection

  • Identify the challenges for US policy each of the course’s domains: Housing, schools, healthcare, immigration and child protection

  • Honors: Develop a policy memo for to demonstrate the learner's professional capacity to professionally interpret finding to decision makers.

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John Robertson
Columbia University
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