This document outlines the schedule for an academic course on comparative social protection systems. It includes 8 sessions covering topics like social protection concepts and trends, comparative social policy models, challenges of poverty and unemployment, and a discussion of basic income. The course is taught by professors Yannick Vanderborght and Laura Merla and includes a week-long guest lecture series on family life and migration. The course concludes with a final exam on April 27th.
This document outlines the schedule for an academic course on comparative social protection systems. It includes 8 sessions covering topics like social protection concepts and trends, comparative social policy models, challenges of poverty and unemployment, and a discussion of basic income. The course is taught by professors Yannick Vanderborght and Laura Merla and includes a week-long guest lecture series on family life and migration. The course concludes with a final exam on April 27th.
This document outlines the schedule for an academic course on comparative social protection systems. It includes 8 sessions covering topics like social protection concepts and trends, comparative social policy models, challenges of poverty and unemployment, and a discussion of basic income. The course is taught by professors Yannick Vanderborght and Laura Merla and includes a week-long guest lecture series on family life and migration. The course concludes with a final exam on April 27th.
Laura Merla (LM) & Yannick Vanderborght (YV) (MORE 57)
Date Contents (provisional) Prof.
Tuesday Social Protection: setting the scene (concepts, data, current trends) YV 07/02 1 17h30-20h30 Tuesday Comparative social policy and The Three Worlds of Welfare YV 14/02 2 Capitalism 17h30-20h30 Tuesday The challenge of poverty (1) YV 21/02 3 17h30-20h30 Tuesday The challenge of poverty (2) YV 28/02 4 17h30-20h30 Tuesday The challenge of unemployment YV 07/03 5 17h30-20h30 WEEK OF CHAIRE Jacques Leclercq: LM + MK 13/03 Family life in an age of migration (Prof. Majella Kilkey) Monday to Thursday, 14-18h. Cf http://uclouvain.be/265593.html
Friday! Basic income: tackling poverty without worsening unemployment? YV
24/03 6 CANCELLED 17h30-19h30 WEEK OF NO CLASS / 27/03 Easter break Thursday Family life in an age of migration: complementary elements LM 20/04 7 17h30-20h30 Thursday Final exam (another exam for the June session will take place on LM & YV 27/04 8 June 13, 2017) 17h30-20h30