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Convenor name: Vino Kanapathipillai
Convenor email: vk2@soas.ac.uk
Office room: MB C432
Office hours: Mondays 1300-1500
Module dates: Semester 1
Intended learning outcomes:
Excellent foundational knowledge of public policy theory, including public choice and its criticisms, agenda setting and advocacy, policy change and stability, decision making, policy implementation, bureaucracies, and new public management
Ability to critically evaluate a given public policy issue and the assumptions on which it rests, identify and design innovative and practical solutions to policy problems
Ability to engage with the intersectional impacts of policy processes and decisions, in particular with regards to race, class, and gender.
Assessment 1: Name: Assignment 1 (AS1)
Assessment 1: Weighting: 30%
Assessment 1: Due date: 12 December 2025
Assessment 1: Permitted AI usage: Exploration
Assessment 1: Format: 1000 word Policy brief
Assessment 2: Name: Assignment 2 (AS2)
Assessment 2: Weighting: 70%
Assessment 2: Due date: 16 January 2026
Assessment 2: Permitted AI usage: Exploration
Assessment 2: Format: 2500 word essay
Page type: Module
Study year: 2025/26
Librarian name: Yurie Watanabe
Librarian email: yw25@soas.ac.uk
Page template: 2025/26 On campus
