Social Policy in an Interdependent World (SPIW)
Social Policy in an Interdependent World (SPIW)
StudOn Password (SS 2025): the password for the course will be provided at the first lecture on April 29, 2025. Students should register for the StudOn course to receive emails from the instructors and to access course content and materials. Please contact Elisa Poletto (elisa.poletto@fau.de) should you have questions.
Review of Exam Results: the opportunity to review your corrected exam from the Winter Semester 2024/25 will take place on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 13:30 in Room FG 2.016 (Findelgasse 7/9). In order to attend the exam review, please register by March 31, 2025 by sending an e-mail to Elisa Poletto (elisa.poletto@fau.de). Without prior registration it is not possible to attend the exam review.
Bachelor, 5 ECTS
Type of Course: Lecture and Exercise
Course offered: annually in Summer Semester
Module number: 87014
Contact person: Prof. Matthias Wrede and Elisa Poletto
Course Content: Stylized facts about Social Issues and Social Policy; Efficiency and Social Justice from a National and an International Perspective; Comparative Social Policy: Welfare Systems and Policies in Selected Fields; Social Policy and International Flows: Migration, Trade, Capital Flows; Social Policy and European Integration.
Lecture: Tuesdays 08:00-09:30, Lange Gasse 20, Lecture hall H2 (Hermann Gutmann-Hörsaal) beginning April 29 in SS 2025
Exercise: Thursdays 15:00-16:30, Findelgasse 9, Room 0.015 (ground floor). Further details about the exercises will be provided at the first lecture and via StudOn during the semester
Attendance during the semester is expected at both the lectures and the exercises.
StudOn Password: the password for the course will be provided at the first lecture. Students should register for the course via StudOn to directly receive emails from us and to access course content and materials. Contact Elisa Poletto (elisa.poletto@fau.de) if you have questions.
Written Exam (SS 2025): Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. (60 min.), Lange Gasse 20, Lecture hall H4
Syllabus and Literature (2024): SPIW Syllabus Summer 2024
Language: English
Recommended prerequisites: Microeconomics; Introduction to Econometrics.
Integration in curriculum: Fourth Semester (summer term) Bachelor of International Business Studies (IBS) and Bachelor of International Economic Studies (IES). The course is compulsory for students of the IBS and IES Bachelor degree programs.
Permitted aids during the exam: a silent, non-programmable calculator
Further information on the course can be found in the current Module Handbook. The course documents and materials will be made available at StudOn.