Columbia University - Health, Housing, and Educational Services
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Health, Housing, and Educational Services at Coursera Overview
Duration | 15 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Health, Housing, and Educational Services at Coursera Highlights
- This Course Plus the Full Specialization.
- Shareable Certificates.
- Graded Programming Assignments.
Health, Housing, and Educational Services at Coursera Course details
- Course 5 discusses policies in four areas: housing, education, healthcare, and immigration, with an optional fifth module in child protection. This course addresses issues of power, oppression, and white supremacy.
- -First we?ll look at housing policy, with its contrasting supports for homeowners and renters.
- -Then we?ll interpret the structure that provides education and examine debates about its future.
- -The third module will differentiate the issues in the U.S. healthcare system and develop the structure of public healthcare programs.
- -Next, the course will lay out immigration policies and weigh the push and pull of the debate about immigration reform.
- -The optional fifth module traces the child protection system its beginnings to the present day and appraises the failures and strengths of the system.
- The course is part of a sequence in social policy that has an HONORS TRACK. This track will prepare the learner for masters-level work in policy, which involves reading the literature, writing concise summaries and probing critiques. Over the sequence the learner will develop a policy analysis that will create a foundation for professional policy analyst assignments.
Health, Housing, and Educational Services at Coursera Curriculum
Housing and Education
Sequence opening video - John Robertson
Sequence Video: Why Social Policy - Alumni
Course Introduction
Tax Expenditures
Housing Programs
Housing Equality
Housing Issues
Housing Alternatives
Education Structure
Education Issues
7 Great Education Policy Ideas for Progressives in 2018
Quiz: Module 1 Overview
Understanding healthcare delivery in the U.S.
Introduction
The Parts of Healthcare
Healthcare Debate Reasons
Healthcare Expenditures
Healthcare Issues
Healthcare Information
Rationing
The Basic Question
Reform, Part I
Reform, Part II
Reform, Part III
The Healthcare Debate
Understanding Health Insurance
Quiz: Module 2 Overview
ACA, Medicare, and Medicaid
Introduction
The Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Medicare
The Parts of Medicare
The Costs of Medicare
The Future of Medicare
Medicaid
Medicaid and Aging
The Future of Medicaid
Video Lecture: Medicaid, Medicare and Poverty - Prof Garfinkel
Wrapping Up
An Overview of Medicare
Quiz: Module 3 Overview
Immigration
Introduction
Immigration Numbers
Immigration: Benefits & Problems
Categories of Immigration
Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR)
Immigration: Temporary Work
Undocumented Immigrants
Undocumented Immigrants by Professor Kaushal
Integration
Immigrant & Children
Special Populations
The Paradox by Professor Kaushal
Immigration Reform
Wrap-Up
Policy Analysis Project: The Final Policy Memo
Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Quiz: Module 4 Overview
BONUS: Child Protective Services
Introduction
History of Child Welfare
Child Abuse
The Safety of the Child
Child Protective Services (CPS) System
Child Abuse/Neglect Prevention & Out-of-Home Care
Aging Out & Adoption
Child Welfare by Professor Waldfogel
Issues in Child Public Welfare
Out-of-Home Care Disproportionality
Every Kid Needs a Family
Quiz: Module 5 Overview
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