• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

The Master of Science in Social Policy Program (MSSP) program is an eleven-month, ten-course program that prepares professionals with knowledge and skills to use policy to increase equality, promote equity, and forge social change. MSSP graduates are prepared for policy leadership positions in government, philanthropic foundations, research institutes, nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, and other related settings, through:

• Understanding the world views, assumptions, and philosophies underlying all policy solutions;
• Understanding how decisions about social policy issues are made, shaped and influenced at local, state, national and global levels;
• Formulating a social reform agenda that is evidence-based and aims at improving the equity, effectiveness, and efficiency of policy creation and implementation; and
• Generating and considering a wide array of policy options to address social problems.

The program is designed for:

• Early and mid-career professionals engaged in policy work in a wide variety of organizational settings;
• Bachelor’s degree recipients who wish to develop policy skills; and
• Students pursuing other advanced degrees at Penn who wish to have a graduate degree in social policy. The MSSP may be combined with the following degrees: Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Public Administration (MPA), Master of Public Health (MPH), and Juris Doctor (JD).

The standard ten-course, ten-credit MSSP curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge base and analytical skills needed to participate in policy analysis, creation, and evaluation.

The MSSP+DA curriculum provides students with the core MSSP policy training and skills in the foundations of data analytics, programming of data structures, applications of machine learning and predictive analytics, spatial analytics, and the data processing techniques for web scraping and data visualization for a broader public audience.

MSSP Core Courses

• MSSP 628: Policy: Analysis of Issues, Strategy and Process
• MSSP 629: Research & Evaluation Design
• MSSP 630: Quantitative Reasoning
• MSSP 631: Law and Social Policy
• MSSP 897: Applied Linear Modeling
• MSSP 668: Economics for Social Policy
• MSSP 632: Capstone I: Policy Communications
• MSSP 633: Capstone II: Policy Internship

所属院系

中国学生入学要求

课程信息

学制：全日制(11 个月)

学费：US$58,800.00 (¥ 374,080) /年

开学时间：2022九月29日

申请截止日期：

留学地点：School of Social Policy and Practice3701 Locust Walk,PHILADELPHIA,Pennsylvania,19104, United States