153-0503/01 – Social Policy (SP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. David Lenert, Ph.D., MBA | Subject version guarantor | PhDr. Mgr. Hana Fachinelli, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2009/2010 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
• describe the social policy system
• outline the basic phases of the social policy development and clarify the factors
which led to the changes
• explain the basis of disparity in the society, the concept of poverty and
approaches to its measurement
• outline the purpose of collective bargaining
• describe basic aspects of wage policy from the point of view of social policy
• clarify the purpose, structure and basic features of social security and healthcare
programmes
• compute the subtitence minimum and the amount of living for an idividual, a family
• assess a social event and find the solution in the social and healthcare system
Teaching methods
Summary
The course explains the basic principles and mechanisms of social policy in
the context with economic policy - principal aspects of social policy
development, particular social policy models, the role of subjects in social
policy, sources and its financing instruments are explicated.
Attention is paid to problems of social inequality, especially poverty, and
approaches to its solution. The fundamental social economic aspects of
employment policy are focused on including wage policy and basic parameters of social protection programmes.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Terms definition of social policy and its role in economics.
2. Social policy genesis in international view.
3. Inequality in society, equity and effectiveness, poverty.
4. Social security programmes in advanced countries.
5. Social consensus, collective bargaining.
6. Basic social-economic aspects of wage policy.
7. Social policy and employment policy.
8. Social insurance.
9. State social support.
10. Social help (material need, social welfare, social services).
11. Health care and social policy.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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