Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Contemporary theories of public administration | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Catherine Fallon | ||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| This course will not be organised in 2015-2016. The course will cover recent theories of the on going transformations of the state : - Reforms derived from the New Public Management trend; agencification and contractualisation; strategic management and performance evaluation - Reforms of the public services and professional changes for public servants - Transformation of the politics / administration relationship - Administration in multi-level environment. | ||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Develop a critical approach of the emerging issues in the domaine of public administration, and the theoretical tools to manage these issues. | ||||||||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Students have to analyse (groupwork) a question of reform of a public administration (on the basis of a list of proposition given by the teacher): this will be based on fieldwork. It will be presented during the lecture (Dec 2014) : the students will have to write a report (no later than 31/12/2014)
Organisational details will be precised during a specific course organised in septembre 2014 |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| lectures are organised during the 2d semestre, on the basis of a series of articles and texsts (in French and English)
Students have to analyse (groupwork) a question of reform of a public administration (on the basis of a list of proposition given by the teacher): this will be based on fieldwork.
Details will be provided during the introductory course. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| A series of articles the slides used during the lectures will be made available via My ULg | ||||||||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| oral examination : a discussion on an article selected randomly from the reading file; a question on the elements covered during the lectures (restitution) 50% of the final evalution will be based on the groupwork (quality of the analysis, quality of the oral presentation, quality of the written report) | ||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is held every even year (2016-2017,2018-2019,...). | ||||||||
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Contacts :
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| catherine.fallon@ulg.ac.be | ||||||||