Finland’s University of Tampere offered a course on basic income, titled “Universal Basic Income: New Avenues in Social Welfare Policy,” which ran from February through May of this year. (This is the second time that a course on basic income has been taught at the university.)
According to the course outline,
The purpose of this course is to offer students a thorough introduction about basic income as a social policy instrument. The course outlines the main characteristics of basic income and explores how it differs from traditional income support policies. In addition, the course provides a critical overview of the reasons for and against a basic income as well as reviewing a number of practical and political challenges that need to be overcome. Finally, the course offers a series of lectures that focus on basic income in the Finnish context, including an updated account of the ongoing preparation for the basic income experiment scheduled to start in January 2017.
The course was led by University of Tampere Professors Jurgen De Wispelaere and Antti Halmetoja, and also featured a series of expert guest lecturers.
The presentations and video recording of (most of) the lectures are now available on the course’s website (in English), as are reports from students.
Check them out — and give yourself a university-quality education in basic income, sans tuition and grades!
Image: University of Tampere (Tiia Monto via Wikimedia Commons)
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