Health, Housing, and Educational Services

Overview

Key Features

Course 5 discusses policies in four areas: housing, education, healthcare, and immigration, with an optional fifth module in child protection. 

• 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 Health, Housing, and Educational Services course offered by Coursera in partnership with Columbia University 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.