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Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.)' Public Management (PMGT)

Department of Political Science, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

The Public Management program is designed to lead to an understanding of public sector administration and management from the "inside" - as an integrated enterprise - as well as from the outside - as a series of policy decisions and outcomes. Characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach employing both political and business-oriented analysis, students will confront questions of why politicians and public servants behave the way they do, and how their policy choices and processes can be optimized. Management of public entities features a unique set of challenges that arise from and interact with basic political issues like democracy, accountability, equity, fairness, and justice. At the same time it necessarily faces concerns common to all organizations, such as efficiency, human and capital resource management, morale, planning, and adaptation to change.

The program will appeal to students interested in the public service, public sector businesses or business-government relations. A co-ordinated sequence of courses may be capped in the final year by a year-long research project and thesis.

For this major, 16.00 of the 20.00 credits are specified as core requirements and the remaining 4.00 as electives.