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Social Policy Issues Post Baccalaureate Diploma Program

Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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This program, for those with a bachelor’s degree, may be completed through a combination of courses offered through distance education, at the Burnaby and the downtown campuses. The program applies recent developments in social theory and research methods to the investigation of social programs and social policy issues. Courses examine substantive social policy issues. The program provides critical perspectives to understand processes by which social problems are defined, understood, and acted upon.

Acceptance of general ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV admission does not automatically guarantee program admission. Students must apply for entry directly to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Program Requirements

Students must successfully complete an approved program comprised of 30 units of upper division courses. At least 16 are to be chosen from the set of core courses described below.

Core Courses

Students complete a total of 16 units, including

  • SA 340-4 Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis

and at least three of

  • SA 316-4 Tourism and Social Policy
  • SA 319-4 Culture, Ethnicity, and Aging
  • SA 320-4 Population and Society
  • SA 335-4 Gender Relations and Social Issues
  • SA 363-4 Processes of Development and Underdevelopment
  • SA 386-4 The Ethnography of Politics
  • SA 420-4 Sociology of Aging

Optional Courses

Students complete a total of 16 units, chosen from

  • POL 321-4 The Canadian Federal System
  • POL 352-4 Canadian Local and Urban Government and Politics
  • POL 451-4 Public Policy Analysis
  • SA 300-4 Canadian Social Structure
  • SA 304-4 Social Control
  • SA 321-4 Social Movements
  • SA 325-4 Political Sociology
  • SA 362-4 Society and the Changing Global Division of labour
  • SA 371-4 Environment and Society
  • SA 402-4 The Practice of Anthropology
  • SA 463-4 Special Topics in Development Studies

To fulfil the optional course requirement, students may instead complete additional core courses, or upon the program steering committee’s recommendation, select a course not included among listed options, but with appropriate content.

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