The purpose of this course is to develop students’ knowledge about the social problems and phenomena in Taiwan and its causes and effects to the society as a whole, which may in turn build their perception of the society and the clients they may work on as well as their ability of managing academic research in the future. Accordingly, this course begins with the introduction of studies on general social problems in Taiwan and is followed by specific topics including: the development of social insurance programmes and the debates over its sustainability, the problems of and debates over the Taiwanese labour market, the problems of long-term unemployment and youth employment, the employment situation of and employment service schemes for low- and mid-low income families, demographic problems and family policy, migrant workers in Taiwan, female discrimination on employment, poverty, the problems and human rights of the disabled people, alcohol and drug abuse and its effects, the problems of juvenile delinquency, and pornography and its problem. In order to fulfil the aims of this course, besides the lectures given by the faculty member and lectures from governmental departments and, particularly in private sector, welfare organisations, students are required to work as a group to find out a topic they are interested in and do further research on it. In this way, students are capable of looking deeper into social problems, collecting and analysing data and literature and therefore appropriately integrating practical and academic abilities in pursuing people’s well-beings.