Course topics
1. Foundations of Public Policy: definitions of public policy, key areas, core concepts and terminology; thematic collocations,
2. Health Policy: Models of healthcare systems and health policy governance; describing and comparing systems using comparative and contrastive structures; collocations related to public services,
3. Environmental Policy: Climate commitments and global regulatory frameworks; describing trends and expressing degrees of certainty and uncertainty,
4. Education Policy: Education policies and their societal impact; describing reforms and trends; formulating generalisations and exceptions; responding appropriately to arguments,
5. Economic Policy: Links to public sector economics; explaining cause-and-effect relationships through linguistic structures; economic terminology; use of nominalisation,
6. Urban Policy: Describing structural and spatial challenges in cities; using grammatical and lexical structures to evaluate policy effectiveness; precise reference to examples; logical sequencing of information,
7. Social Policy: Social support systems; expressing complex social relations using abstract vocabulary; formulating balanced, non-emotive opinions; understanding linguistic implications of policy arguments,
8. Civil Defence and Crisis Management : vocabulary enhancement describing civil defence systems and crisis management; language used to describe procedures; grammatical and lexical structures for developing action plans,
9. Digital Policy: Digital regulation and data privacy protection; expressing conditions and consequences through lexical-grammatical structures,
10. Migration Policy: Migration policies and integration strategies; formulating arguments from multiple perspectives; using neutral language to describe social groups; identifying rhetorical strategies in texts and debates,
11. Housing Policy: Housing policy and urban planning; describing social phenomena using data and indicators; applying quantitative expressions,
12. Energy Policy: Energy strategies (renewable vs conventional); describing scenarios and forecasts; comparing strategies,
13. Food and Agricultural Policy: Food security and agricultural support; paraphrasing texts; analysing case studies,
14. Family Policy and Demographic changes: describing demographic processes; synthesising information from multiple sources; describing evolving processes and changing trends,
15. Public Policy Challenges: Integrated case studies (e.g. demography/technology); formulating conclusions; responding appropriately to questions and comments.