Welcome to the website of the two-year Master’s programme in Public and Social Policy and Human Resources with specialization on Social Policy and Employment Policy. This programme is taught at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University.
The programme provides the graduates with the abilities of understanding and practical application of the current methods of solving the problems in social policy and employment policy as well as the abilities of evaluation of the problems and policies.
The programme is recommended especially to those applicants who are interested in development of public and social policies in Central European (post-communist) countries and in social aspects of public administration. The programme content focuses on processes and implementation of social policies taking the institutional perspective into consideration.
Discover why you should choose to study in this field, particularly at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University.
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Admission to a Master’s degree programme is conditional on graduating from a Bachelor’s degree programme in some field of public or social policy, some other social science field, economics and management, public administration.
We seek students with a strong interest in the development of contemporary public policies in general and in social and labour market policies in particular who want to research topics such as policy changes, evaluation of social programmes.
For information about what should you do to apply to the study programme and how much does the study cost, please visit MUNI info.
Admissions
The Master's programme consists of three semesters of coursework and one semester of thesis writing.
Program courses:
You will be qualified to work as managers and experts in social policy and labour market policy fields or as researchers, in the sta, non-governmental and commercial organizations. In particular you can perform the roles of managers or program designers in public policy, social services, social security or employment organizations in various sectors. You also can become teachers, especially in the tertiary education.
The programme also prepares you for further academic studies in wide range of Ph.D. programmes with focus on public or social policies, public administration, human resources, management etc. You can also continue your post-graduate studies at our department in the programme.
The courses are runned by the team of experienced teachers. The team head Tomáš Sirovátka has been involved in several international research projects (EC 7th Frame projects, Horizon 2020, Norwegian funds and others), has taught in international programme Master of European Social Security (University of Leuven), and is Executive Manager of the International PH.D. seminars of European Postgraduate School in Social Sciences (EUSOC, Masaryk University).
Tel.: +420 549 491 914
admission@fss.muni.cz