Student Guide - University of Ottawa - International Office

PROGRAMS OF STUDY
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Modules in Public Administration
MODULES
Outline of Module One:
Modern Public Administration
• Effective management: the logic
of modern Public Administration
The case-study approach: theory-guided
reflections on practices
Techniques in Public Administration:
ways to achieve success
• Getting things done: the logic(s)
of organizations and of leaders
• Being effective: how to organize yourself
in organizations
• Trends in European public administration
• Challenges that the Polish bureaucracy
faces
• Bureaucracy between politics and civil
society
• Bureaucracy, law and economics
• Learning organizations, multi-level
government and the network society
Outline of Module Two:
Policy and Finance
New Public Management, Quality Control,
and Public Innovation in comparative European
perspective. Lobbing. Comparative cases will
include: Water Management in Europe, Social
Security and the Future of the European Union,
the Management of Health Care in Europe.
Outline of Module Three:
Human Resource Management
The basic philosophy of MPA program is that
it is the people in the administration that do
the job, and that management is essentially
facilitation. This module will present a wide array
of comparative case studies (police forces,
the HRM of the administrative elite, effective
implementation of innovation, the introduction
of European regulations) from a great variety
of European countries.
I completed an MA in International Relations at Collegium
Civitas. Shortly thereafter I joined the foreign service. I work
in the Economic Department of a Polish Embassy.
The academic training I received by studying at Collegium
Civitas was significant in preparing me for the post I currently
hold, as some of the professors had been Ambassadors
and diplomats and provided comprehensive training. Additionally,
the program was flexible and multidisciplinary, allowing
me to choose my area of focus and tailor it to my needs.
Hubert Życinski – Collegium Civitas graduate