Core Course
Undergraduate Program
- Undergraduate (B.A. in Public Policy and Management)
The core mission of the undergraduate program is to advance students’ abilities to independent thinking, critical analysis, and teamwork in the dynamic society. Students receive knowledge and training from both the academia and practitioner’s world. The freshman and sophomore year courses intend to set the foundation for the discipline of public policy and management. Starting the junior year, students are able to extend their learning according to their future career plan. For those who are interested in the practice of policy and management have the opportunities to intern in the public or NGO/NPO sectors; those interested in the academia are referred to faculty research projects for further understanding in the field.
| Administration & Society (B) |
| Introduces the Administration field development stage and its primary connotation. Lead students to understand administrational organization and how it operates. The course contains administration operation, public government, comparative administration, public management and administration skills, financial administration and personnel administration. |
| Administrative Ethics (B) |
| Covers the subject of administrative ethics from theory to practice, with the goal of strengthening students’ ability to (1) understand in an enlightened manner important ethical concepts, theories, and discourses; (2) contemplate how issues and roles are practically related and connected to ethics in one’s public and professional life; and (3) ultimately develop and acquire skills in applying ethics decision models. |
| Administrative Information Management (B) |
| Aims to equip the students with MIS (management information systems) knowledge and skills relevant for the disciplines of public administration and policy. The teacher collects and introduces a lot of famous domestic and oversea websites to help students have deeper understanding about these obvious mistakes that often happened in the field. |
| Administrative Law (B) |
| Deals with fundamental theories and principles that comprise the outline of administrative law, thereby familiarizing students with the basic concepts underlying the legal institutions behind the administrative law. Emphases are placed on Administrative Procedure Act, Administrative remedy, and its related statutes governing, among other things, petition, litigation, and rule-making. |
| Introduction to Public Policy (B) |
| Includes: (1) the theoretical framework of how policy are made, implemented, and evaluated, with a focus on agenda setting; (2) the contents and developments of the important and salient policies in Taiwan; and (3) the perceptions and opinions on these policies by the general public and the elite. |
| Modern Examination and Civil Service System (B) |
| Emphasizes on exposing and orienting students to the content and operation of civil service system currently practiced in our nation. |
| Policy Analysis (B) |
| Cover with the complexities of policy analysis. It provides an introduction to the fundamental theories, concepts, and methodologies associated with policy analysis, and an introduction to the procedures used in conducting policy analysis. |
| Policy Implementation and Evaluation (B) |
| Includes theories and applications of policy implementation and evaluation. The contents of this course include: top-down vs. bottom-up policy implementation, policy network, policy tools, types of policy evaluation, impact evaluation and qualitative evaluation. |
| Public Budgeting & Financial Management (B) |
| Provides a chance to the students to familiar the nature and process of public budgeting, as well as the knowledge and skills of financial management of governments. The main contexts of this course are composed of by two parts. One is about public budgeting theories, institutions and practices. The other is about financial management aspects and techniques. |
| Public Personnel Systems in Other Countries (B) |
| Discusses civil service and the policy of civil service management in five countries, including the United Kingdoms, the United States, Germany, France and Japan. Special focus is placed on the ecological analysis, the elaboration and assessment of different systems. |
| Public Management (B) |
| Covers three parts. The first part deals with public management systems. The second part focuses on the governance logic of public management. The third part covers several sub-systems of public management: public sector design, strategy formation, accountability system, resource distribution system, value and culture. |
Graduate Program– II. Doctoral Level
- Doctorate (Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management)
Doctorate students are trained to reach high level analytical and logical thinking and writing skills. Students who intend to be in the academia have plenty opportunities to become undergraduate lecturers, teaching or research assistants. Students who are current practitioners are able to connect theories and methods to research and practice. Academic activities, such as conference and forum, on international exchange are encouraged to excel academic learning.
| Advanced Seminar in the Intellectual Developments of Public Administration (D) |
| Covers the intellectual developments of public administration and refine their abilities to identify, analyze, interpret, criticize and evaluate the literature in this field. This course covers various theoretical frameworks, classic publications and research results of public administration. After completing this course, students are expected to be able to make intellectual conversation and to conduct academic research on various topics under the domain of public administration. They should also be well prepared to teach courses relevant to public administration. |
| Advanced Seminar in the Intellectual Developments of Public Economics (D) |
| Concerns the understanding of public economics and finance. The topics include market failure, public choice, collective action, public goods, externalities, principal-agent theories, cost-benefit analysis, taxation theories, budget deficit and public debt. |
| Advanced Seminar in the Intellectual Developments of Public Management (D) |
| Covers seven primary themes: notes on the design of organization and management; bureaucracies and bureaucratic failure; systems approach to organizational design; adhocracy and project management; administrative behavior and the functions of the executive; the new citizenship governance; modernism, postmodernism and organization. |
| Advanced Seminar in the Intellectual Developments of Public Policy (D) |
| Explores the intellectual foundations and history of public policy. It is also designed to understand the theories and applications of public policy. The course will be divided into six main topics: 1) the definition of public policy; 2) the paradigm of public policy; 3) the approaches to studying public policy; 4) public policy and policy analysis; 5) policy issues discussion; 6) contemporary and future public policy. |