Administrative Management

1. Program Description 

The Administrative Management program based on the guiding ideology of undergraduate training that“wide caliber, thick foundation, show personality, emphasis on innovation”.Through the learning and training of the administration, management, political science, law and other relevant knowledge and skills ,to cultivate the compound type, application type and academic administration talent with the sustainable development potential and innovative spirit. After graduation from this program,the students can enter the party and government organs, enterprises, social organizations and other relevant departments engaged in the administrative management and the scientific research work, but also for further studies.

2. Program Duration and Credit

This is a four-year undergraduate program, which can be completed within a minimum of three years and a maximum of seven years.

A total of 151credits are required upon the completion of the program.

3. Curriculum

Three modules of courses are offered for the program: Basic Curriculum, Essential Curriculum, and Elective Curriculum. The Basic and Essential curricula are compulsory for a Bachelor’s degree. 

The Elective Curriculum in the list includes extended disciplinary courses offered by the school into which an individual student is admitted, as well as cross disciplinary courses offered by other schools. Students can choose the extended and cross disciplinary courses according to their personal interests and career plans; however, credits should be approved by the School.

（1）Basic Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
101204032101	Management *	3	1
101204032102	Foundation of Politics *	3	1
101204032103	Foundation of Logic	3	2
101204032104	Sociology	3	2
101204032105	Public Administration *	3	2
101204032201	Document Writing and Practice	3	6	Including 0.5 practice credit
101204032202	Research Methods in Social Science and Thesis Writing	3	3	Including 0.5 practice credit
101204032203	Modern Economics	3	2
100701062107	Advanced Mathematics（D）	3	1
101204032204	Introduction to Public  Administration	2	1

（2）Essential Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
101204033001	Analysis of Public Policy *	3	3
101204033002	National Civil Servant System *	3	5
101204033003	Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law *	3	4
101204033004	Administrative Ethics *	3	6
101204033005	The Western Public Administration Theory *	3	5
101204033006	Contemporary Government and Politics in China *	3	3
101204033007	Public Sector Economics *	3	3
101204033008	Project Management	2	5
101204033009	Strategic Management	2	3
101204033010	Government Performance Management	2	7
101204033011	Management Information System	2	3
101204033012	Case  Study  of  Public  Management	2	5	Including 9 practice period
101204033013	The  Methods  of  Social  Survey  Research	2	4	Including 9 practice period
101204033014	Organization Behavior	2	6
101204033015	Practical Training	2	5	practice course
101204033016	Graduation Field Work	2	8	practice course
101204033017	Graduation Thesis	4	8	practice course

（3）Elective Curriculum

Course Code	Course	Credit	Semester	Remark
101204034001	History of Western Political Thoughts	2	3
101204034002	Comparative Politics	2	4
101204034003	The Contemporary Western Political Thought	2	4
101204034004	Leadership Science	2	5
101204034005	Crisis  Management	2	7
101204034006	Introduction to Online Government	2	4
101204034007	Administrative Ability Development and training	2	7	Including 0.5 practice credit
101204034008	Contemporary China’s Economics Development	2	7
101204034009	Communication	2	4	Including 9 practice period
101204034010	Human Resource Management	2	5	Including 9 practice period
101204034011	The Public Relations of Government and Practice	2	4
101204034012	Corporate Culture and Corporate Image Design	2	5
101204034013	Business Administration and Practice	2	6
101204034014	Cultural Management	2	4
101204034015	Non-profit Organizations Management	2	6
101204034016	Community Governance	2	6
101204034017	Social Security Theory and Practice	2	7
101204034018	Statistics	2	5
101204034019	Political Philosophy	2	4
101204034020	Introduction to Chinese Culture	2	6

(Note: 1. Odd-number semesters are the fall semesters and even-number semesters are the spring semesters in each academic year. 

      2. The asterisk * marks a core course.

4. Core Courses and Introductions

101204032101   Management   (3.00 cr.) 

Prerequisites:   None

Through the introduction and interpretation of the basic principle of management, to make students master the basic management expertise, and combined with case to deepen students understanding of management theory and methods, and can understand correctly in the actual management of the general issues.

Management mainly studies management activities from the perspective of general theories, principles and characteristics so as to find out the common regularity. It is one of the professional core courses applicable to students major in management. The course of “Management - Principles and Cases” takes the case as the main method of guidance, uniting various principles and management functions through it. The contents mainly divided into two parts, the first part focuses on the basic theory, including management-related understanding, management development ideas and various incentive-based theories by the context of human nature hypothesis, which is the basis and tools of understanding the various functions of management activities. The second part is on the specific aspects of management activities, that is the five specific management functions: planning, organization, leadership, regulation, transformation and innovation, which is the dynamic knowledge experience of a combination of theory and practice, by selecting cases combined with the respective classical chapters, to strengthen the practical understanding of the management activities. During the period arranges practice activities, such program can be developed by students to manage their own programs to enhance the ability of knowledge usage. Theory without application is a prattfer, skills without theory is at best a technician. Thus, the effective manager =theory + application +idealization. According to students situation, the course encourages students more involved in class discussions, exerts the subjective roles of the students, in order to lay a solid foundation of professional knowledge.

101204032102   Foundation of Politics   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:  None

Foundation of politics is the basis of the administrative management professional undergraduate course, the purpose is to through the learning theory of political science, make students understand the basic principles of political science, grasp the basic political common sense, to have the ability to interpret political phenomenon of preliminary and further develop interest in political science, and enhance the ability of political thinking, set up the correct political ideas, improve political flair.

Foundation of politics is the basis of the administrative management professional backbone course. It in analysis and study of political science, on the basis of the basic concept and the basic content, from the political subject, political culture, political system and political activities, reveals the political phenomenon and the political activities of the basic structure, basic characteristics and the inherent law of development.

101204032105   Public Administration   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:  None

The course introduces students to the major theory and method in the field of public administration and arranges around a number of prominent themes that focus on the analysis and ability of administration. Public Administration is an exciting and fascinating field of study. Students completing this course should be familiar with the academic research, policy analysis and practice of management.

Public administration combines theory and practice which refers to two distinguishable but closely related activities, a professional practice and an academic field which seeks to understand, develop, criticize, and improve that professional practice as well as to train individuals for that practice. Public administration refers to the mechanisms and institutions through which public policy is put into effect and to the academic discipline that studies these mechanisms. Public administration is based on the observation and logic to acquire the capacity of solving social and organizational problems, helps the students to understand the practice, theory and technology of public administration.

101204033001   Analysis of Public Policy   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:  None

First, make the students grasp the relevant theories and methods of the policy research and policy analysis, so as to enhance students' understanding of public policy issues and phenomenon;Second, to guide the student to the specific research and analysis on the policy process, in order to make students master the ability of research and analysis of the reality the policy process.

This course aims to educate a new generation of public policy-makers and policy analysts. The course provides an accessible assessment of a wide range of theories and models from policy cycles, policy transfer, rational choice and socio-economic explanations to multi-level governance, advocacy coalitions and punctuated equilibrium and of their value to policy analysis. The programme draws on the disciplines of political science, economics, law, public management. Students develop a working knowledge of particular aspects of political science theory relevant to understanding how public policies are formulated. They gain a basic understanding of economic approaches to public policy analysis and of the concepts of economic efficiency and equity as societal objectives.

101204033002   National Civil Servant System   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Science of Public Administration

Civil service system is an administrative and professional course; its task is to explore and promote the civil service system, to introduce the China national civil service system, also relates to some foreign representative of the national civil service system. Because the content of the national civil service system are derived in the actual system, it is also continuous development and improvement, which is China's socialist modernization construction, government departments and non-governmental public organizations training high-level, application type, compound type talents.

Civil service system is a modern national political and administrative system. It is an important component of building a clean and efficient modern law-based government organization premise and an institutional guarantee. Civil Service course is designed to study the history of the formation of the modern civil service system, trends, institutional theory and institutional structure, through the systematic study of the PRC Civil Servant Law and its seven major system related system settings, supplemented by horizontal comparison of Chinese and Western civil service, Enable students to understand the mastery of modern history and the civil service system of logic, the depth of contemporary Chinese civil service system, advantages and disadvantages of the system inside and outside the system to explore the causes and seek to improve and solutions.

101204033003   Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation Law   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Introduction to law

Through the study of administrative law and administrative litigation law of the theory and practical application, students grasp of administrative law and administrative litigation law basic principle and various specific norms, cultivate the legal accomplishment of students, improve the students to use administrative law and administrative litigation law theory analyzing and solving practical problems ability.

Administrative Law Introduction is an important basis of the scientific legal system. The primary contents of this work are the universality and regularity of the basic theory of administrative law and basic knowledge of administrative procedures and administrative relief.

The main content of this course:

The first part includes the basic principle of administrative law and administrative subject law. The main contents of this part are source of administrative law, administrative law's effectiveness, the basic principles of administrative law and administrative law relations. This part is to set a basic foundation for students who are planning to study the basic theory of administrative law systematically and comprehensively.

The second part is administrative act law, including administrative penalties, administrative licenses, administrative enforcement, administrative collection, administrative contracts, administrative guidance and administrative rulings.

101204033004   Administrative Ethics   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   History of Western Political Thoughts

The course for Administrative Management major designed to enhance students' understanding of administrative acts and moral judgment, decision-making and implementation of policy of administrative ethics, focus on linking theory practical, use the correct way of thinking and values analysis in reality difficult and hot issues.

Administrative ethics is a cross discipline of administrative science and ethics. This interdisciplinary deepens the administrative theory and enriches the contents of ethics. Administrative ethics not only strengthens the objective law of the emergence and development and normative theory research, the more prompted administrative ethics construction and citizen's moral construction practice, make administration according to law and administrative thoughts with further and carry on.

101204033005   The Western Public Administration Theory   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Administration  Management

This course mainly introduces and analyzes some important influence of the western modern and contemporary administrative theory and theory, has the characteristics of comprehensive and informative content. Through teaching, make students more fully understand and grasp some important western public administrative theories for administration and public management specialized student, has the extremely important significance.

Hundred years of western history of public administration theory can be divided into four periods: period of start-up, evolution, deepen and expand. Based on the absorption of the latest domestic and foreign research results, this course will narrative and analyze representatives, works and ideas in the field of public administration of various historical periods, especially since the 20th century, to reproduce a history of ideas with interactive development of different ideas of western public administration Theory.

101204033006   Contemporary Government and Politics in China   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   Foundation of Politics

Through the teaching of the government and politics in contemporary China, to make students understand the contemporary Chinese government organization, functions and powers, master system and the process of government in contemporary China, to understand the contemporary Chinese government public affairs and the content and direction of the reform and innovation. To expand students' political view at the same time, efforts to improve student's thought political theory level and on the analysis of some basic theory and the reality and discrimination, and improve students of government and politics in contemporary China and the Chinese characteristic socialism modernization.

Government and politics in contemporary China is the administrative management, public utilities management professional specialized backbone course, This course mainly includes the following aspects: the basic concept of government in contemporary China, contemporary Chinese government organization system, the functions of the government in contemporary China, contemporary Chinese government's basic power, the contemporary Chinese government system, the process of contemporary Chinese government, public affairs and politics in contemporary China, the government reform and innovation of contemporary China. Which the concept of government and organization system is the foundation of knowledge, the government system and the government process is the key content, and reform and innovation of contemporary Chinese government whether belong to the subject in the theory and practice at the forefront of knowledge.

101204033007   Public Sector Economics   (3.00 cr.)

Prerequisites:   None

Through lectures, to enable students to able to grasp the basic concepts, theory, and analysis method of this course, fully aware of the significance of learning of public economics, a profound understanding of the interactive relationship between the transition period of Chinese economy and politics, the government and the market, and analyses the real life in all kinds of government economic behavior and the cause of all sorts of phenomena in a certain extent.

Public Sector Economics is a popular topic of contemporary interdisciplinary study. Public Economics is also called new political economics, government economics, public sector economics. Its main object of study is government's economic activities and impact on the economy of other government actions.

It includes two aspects, namely, the investigation of government’s economic behavior and political factors influence policy analysis, including:

(1) an overall description of the Public Economics;

(2) explore the basis for government intervention in the economy;

(3) compare and analyze the government's economic behavior;

(4) conduct political analysis on government's economic activities.