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Summary of the Profile
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To provide fundamental knowledge of social sciences and humanities with a focus on public administration and non-profit management theories and practices, values and ethics, basic social research methods and skills to apply them practically in public sector management.
Description of the study programme: https://admissions.ktu.edu/programme/b-public-governance-and-civil-society/
Learning outcomes:
Basic knowledge and abilities:
Is able to evaluate economic, social and environmental context of public governance.
Is able to contextualize public governance system in political and legal environment.
Is able to describe theories, models, processes, methods and relevant national and international contexts of public governance.
Is able to describe models of organisational management and are able to plan, coordinate and control organisational process.
Is able to collect and analyse data and information, to conduct qualitative and quantitative studies of public administration, to provide evidence based insights.
Basic knowledge and abilities in the area of public policy administration:
Is able to define and summarize public policy process and the specificity of its’ management.
Is able to identify, analyze and to choose independently instruments and models applied in public governance practice.
Is able to evaluate political, legal, economic and social settings and accordingly identify and solve public sector problems in national and international contexts.
Basic skills of cooperation with citizens, allowing them to participate in public governance:
Is able to determine and ensure the possibilities for NGOs and experts inclusion into public governance.
Is able to cooperate with citizens and NGOs encouraging them to participate in public governance.
Basic knowledge and abilities to recognise the public interest and the principles of ethics and follow them when making decisions, as well as adhere to moral principles and social values in their activities:
Is able to be fair in making decisions and to follow principles of ethics in public administration.
Is able to identify values and virtues in public sector, are able to follow them in research and communication with citizens.
Is able to reconcile public and private interests according to the principles of public welfare development.
Activities of teaching and learning:
The studies include classroom work (lectures, practical work, laboratory work, seminars, outgoing visits to enterprises, etc.) and individual work for mastering theoretical material, preparation for classroom work, intermediate and final assessments and performing other activities. The studies of each study module are completed by the assessment of the student’s knowledge and skills – an examination or another final assessment; the study programme is completed by the final degree project and its defense.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
The applied cumulative assessment system of the learning outcomes ensures constant and involving work of students during the entire semester of studies; the final evaluation of the study module consists of the sum of the grades of intermediate assessments and the final assessment multiplied by the weighting coefficients (percentages of components).
Study subjects (modules):
Introduction to Public Governance, Introduction to Writing Studies 1, Macroeconomics, Mathematics, Introduction to Writing Studies 2, Philosophy, Sociology, Informatics 1, International and National Security Law, Public Speaking, Cinema History, Environment and Society, History of Civilizations and Media, Civil Society and Volunteering, Public Programmes and Projects, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Social Research, Ethics and Corruption Prevention in Public Sector, Professional Internship, Public Services Administration, Bachelor’s Degree Final Project.
Electives:
Administrative Theory, Urban and Regional Development, Theories of Public Governance Organisations, Text Analytics, Sustainable Human Development, Strategic Planning in Public Sector Organisations, Social Education in Community, Risk and Crisis Communication, Resource Development in the Nonprofit Sector, Public Information Governance, Public Finance Management, Professional Administrative Writing in the Public Sector, Political Theory, Planning and Improvement for Public Organizations, Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Leadership Seminar, Non-Governmental Organisations in Public Governance System, Local Economic Development, Leadership Fundamentals, International Relations, Cooperative Education, Comparative Politics, Civil Service, Basics of Science Communication, Basics of Local Governance.
Study programme abstract:
A graduate has knowledge about economic, social, legal and political context of public administration, has acquired basic knowledge of public governance, understands principles of public policy and public administration, public sector values, is able to recognise public interest, and to select innovative managerial tools in the public sector; understands the process and methods of social research and is able to apply them in the analysis of the problems of the public sector.
Access to professional activity:
The graduate can perform managerial and administrative work at public administration institutions, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, public institutions and business enterprises at the national and international levels.
Access to further study:
S/he has access to the second cycle studies.
