Workshop
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Essay: Students should write an essay of a maximum of 2000 words (6 sides of A4 paper) in answer to
ONE of the questions shown below. Essays should be properly and fully referenced, and include a
full bibliography. They should be word-processed.

PLEASE NOTE: Essays that are more than 10 per cent above or below the word limit will be penalised
through the deduction of marks, as will essays that are not properly or fully referenced or do not
include a full bibliography. (In text references count towards the word limit. Your list of
references and sources used at the end of your essay does not count towards the word limit.)

ESSAYS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO JOHN WILTON BY EMAIL TO jitaly25@hotmail.com OR THROUGH THE MASARYK
UNIVERSITY INFORMATION SYSTEM BY 12.12.2023.

PLEASE NOTE: ESSAY S SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN MSWORD OR PDF FORMAT

Workshop
COURSE ASSESSMENT
Essay Questions:
1.Using examples from at least two social policy areas illustrate practically and theoretically how
social policy has grown in importance in the European Union integration project. Suggest political,
social or economic reasons for that development.
2.Critically assess whether, in terms of social and political factors and principles, European
Union social policy can be characterised as Europeanised. Provide evidence and examples from social
policy areas to substantiate your assessment. (N.B. check examples are considered social policy
areas within context of course)
3.

                     Structure of Essay Answers
Analyse the question – ‘content words’, ‘process words’
Structure of your essay/answer – in what order, and how will you address the question (brief in
introduction)
Theories and Arguments – theories, models and arguments you will employ to analyse, critically
assess, evaluate, compare and contrast
Content and evidence – examples, in terms of information or details you use in order to sustain or
challenge the various theories and arguments you have employed in analysis of the question
Conclusion – your summary of the various points and arguments/theories of explanation, and your
critical evaluation/assessment/comparison of them based on that