Information Policy: International and Comparitive Perspective (PO0084)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-POIP

The course aims to introduce students to an area of growing importance to the study of public policy at national and international levels: the formation of regulatory policies and regimes for the protection of personal information, and for public access to information. Attention will be given to the use of information and communications technologies, to governmental as well as commercial practices that generate issues and problems for public policy, and to other selected areas of information policy and regulation. Assessment: one 4,000-word essay.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The learning objective of the course is to convey an understanding of information policy and politics in international and comparative perspective. You should be able to relate the topics of the course to your other MSc work. You should be able to gain some familiarity with policies relating to the world of computers, telecommunications and information processes. You should be able to recognise and grasp issues concerning the politics of information in the broadest sense when you encounter them in the media or in your own experience.