Key features
- Accredited and Registered
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Flexible structure
- Online support
- Affordable and Accessible
- Internationally benchmarked
- Multicultural Faculty and support
- Honours in Public Administration distance learning
About
The Bachelor of Public Administration Honours is a one year postgraduate programme aimed at students who have completed the relevant first degree and who intend to consolidate and strengthen their expertise in the field of public administration. This programme is pivotal to the development of research capacity in the methodology and techniques of public administration. Students will obtain advanced skills relevant to the public sector.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate the ability to identify, analyse and solve public sector problems in a systematic and creative way.
- Acquire an understanding of how to manage resources and processes in a public context.
- Communicate effectively, in oral and written modes, and to articulate and promote their own ideas and interests.
- Understand and contribute the socio-economic challenges of developing South Africa in an ethical and responsible manner.
- Appreciate that policy-making contributes to the development of government at the local, regional and national levels
Programme structure
Duration: 1 year
Semester 1
- Theory and Science of Public Administration
- Planning and Policy Analysis in the Public Sector
- Research in the Public Sector
- Leadership in the Public Sector
Semester 2
- Politics in the Public Sector
- Management of Public and Municipal Finance
- Guidelines to writing a research project (Compulsory)
Admission requirements
- The minimum entry requirement is a cognate Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma at NQF level 7.
- It is possible to gain entry to the programme on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
Application
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