Course Description

SY405 Poverty 0.5

An examination of poverty as a social institution, social ideology and experienced reality. The course focuses on poverty as a social problem, including political and definitional debates and policy attempts at a response, both in the context of Canadian society and through consideration of selected cross-cultural case studies. (Cross-listed as AN405.)

Prerequisite: Registration status: third or fourth year, and one of: AN371, or SY203*.

Exclusion: SY452c.

DRAFT electronic version updated at 1:45 p.m. January 30, 2003

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