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The Master’s degree Advanced Public Management |
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During September 2008, the Faculty of Law began the classes for the train-up module leading to the Master’s degree Advanced Public Management, to be offered for the first time during the academic year 2009-10.
The Master’s degree Advanced Public Management is a professionally-oriented course providing advanced specialist training in public management and administration, and hereby offering in-depth studies for those first-cycle diploma holders in Public Management and Administration. The teaching of that diploma, first offered by the UB in 1991, has provided the university with the experience it now needs to extend its offering in public management and administration studies— with benchmark teaching that draws from the professional realities beyond the degree studies in themselves and with teachers who have established long-term working relationships with different administrative bodies in the public sector.
Although Advanced Public Management is primarily addressed to graduates in public management and administration, the degree is also open to applicants with other study profiles, chiefly to those with social sciences degree courses completed in either the first or second cycle and with a professional interest in advanced management activities in either the public sector or bodies related to it.
As regards the degree’s subject-specific competences, upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
· demonstrate knowledge of the legal framework regulating public sector management and of the various challenges it currently faces;
· make appropriate use of the financial resources available to managers in order to meet professional objectives;
· identify human resource needs in either the public sector or management bodies related to it and use techniques and procedures for the planning, selection and in-service training of personnel;
- apply project assessment methods and techniques using basic public management data.
In order to reinforce these competences, the offering includes a series of optional course units from which students will be able to choose according to their professional interests.
Marina Solé Català
Master Coordinator
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