This course aims to develop students’ knowledge of different approaches in policy making and reflect critically the significance of policy analysis. To do so, students will be ased to identify and re-examine the different elements, approaches and models in policy making and policy analysis, to debate selected contemporary public and social policies in Hong Kong from critical and analytical perspectives, and to generate ideas for innovative solutions. Upon completion of the course, students are expected to have gained a good intellectual foundation for more specialized courses in policy, administration and management.