Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - History of Social Welfare

SWLF 3007  History of Social Welfare

Prerequisites:

SWLF 1005 or SWLF 1006

Antirequisites:

SWLF 2606

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

This course surveys the origins of public welfare in England, with an emphasis on the old poor law, settlement laws, Speenhamland and the new poor law of 1834. Attention will then be given to the development of social welfare in the United States and Canada from the colonial period to the present day. This course may be credited towards History.