SW 552 Advanced Social Policy Analysis

Selected social policy evaluation models and techniques reviewed, including discursive approaches. Content area foci include mental health, child welfare, disabilities and aging. Current policy initiatives covered from social welfare and legislative perspectives. Use of data analysis strategies to evaluate social welfare problems and their implications for policy development and implementation considered. Encompasses development of policy evaluation questions and design of appropriate methodologies to address those questions including evaluation design, sampling, measurement and analysis. Also offered as SW 652 and may be taken only once for credit.