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PMPPfs two-year curriculum consists of a combination of core required courses, elective required courses, and elective courses. To earn a masterfs degree (Master of Arts in Public Management), students are also required to complete a thesis under the supervision of full-time faculty member in the GSIR.
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| Course Work |
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| Core required courses and elective required courses provide students with disciplinary and analytical knowledge and skills such as management, public administration, economics, public finance, accounting, law, statistics, and mathematics, which are required to understand all aspects of public management and policy analysis and apply them to real world issues in public sectors. Elective courses focus more on the specific aspects of public policies, like environmental issues, health care systems, regional development, and education. Practical and policy-oriented elective courses expand the theoretical capability and descriptive knowledge developed in required courses in order to allow students to facilitate problem-identification and problem solving in regional and international agendas. |
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| Together with the above course work, students select a unique and important policy-related research topic and write a masterfs thesis while participating in advanced seminar sessions with their academic supervisors. Indeed, writing a masterfs thesis and defending it must be the center of the demanding components of the program, as in typical academic graduate-level studies. The thesis writing gives students a crucial opportunity to learn how to discuss and analyze their research topic in depth by integrating the concepts and methods that have been acquired during the entire two-year program as well as the knowledge that had been developed in their previous professional and academic careers. |
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