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Program Requirements

The Diploma in Public Administration and Governance focuses on integrating the important current issues and practices that affect day-to-day operations, decisions, systems and finances in a public organization. It is designed to build core competencies to enable students to develop analytical skills and problem-solving strategies that are critical for success in public service organizations, and to formalize functional skills necessary for effective management within the public sector. Students must have a Bachelor's degree in any discipline with a minimum CGPA of 3.0 out of 4.0, or 3.2 out of 4.0 in the last two years of full-time academic studies.

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Required Courses

• CGM2 510 Project Management: Tools and Techniques (3 credits)

  Offered by: Management & Entrepreneurship (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Management : Focus on main concepts and theories of project management from initiation to close-out. Topics include: project life cycle, planning, scheduling, implementing, monitoring, controlling, close-out and ethics. The concepts presented apply to projects of various sizes, types and degrees of complexity.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Chasse, Andrew; Champenois, Christian (Fall) Gauthier, Sylvain; Chasse, Andrew; Corbeil, Linda (Winter) Chasse, Andrew (Summer)

  • Restrictions: Open to students currently in a program. Not open to Special Students.

  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.

• CORG 551 Behaviour in Organizations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Organizational Behaviour : The implications for management and the essential concepts of social psychology such as motivation, perception, attitude change and organization. Group and organizational dynamics will be the major emphasis of the course. Classroom discussion and student participation is encouraged.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Firsova, Nadège; Di Maulo, Sonia (Fall) Sylvain, Nathalie-Michele (Winter) Malo, Kit (Summer)

• CPAG 500 Lean Operations in Public Services (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  CPAG : Lean principles and how to apply processes needed to optimize cost while maintaining or improving service levels in the public sector. Particularities of service operations in a public environment and how process improvement methodologies can be used there.

  Terms: Winter 2023

  Instructors: Martel, Guy (Winter)

• CPAG 510 Current Issues in Public Sector Management (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  CPAG : Contemporary challenges faced by public administration due to political, technological, social and economic changes in society. Trends, successes and failures experienced in the past, and alternative solutions.

  Terms: Winter 2023

  Instructors: Jeyabalaratnam, Gopinath (Winter)

• CPAG 515 Public Regulations and Ethics in the Public Sector (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  CPAG : Legal principles and legal reasoning, role of law in public sector management such as constitutional law, administrative law and human rights law; how the principles behind privacy and access to information legislation are derived from the ethical principles.

  Terms: Fall 2022

  Instructors: Guay, Hélène (Fall)

• CPAG 520 Leadership and Governance in Public Organizations (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  CPAG : Leadership and governance issues, accountabilities and responsibilities for public organization leaders, governance best practices, and administrative aspects of Indigenous governance. Practical ways to improve service delivery and performance.

  Terms: Summer 2023

  Instructors: LACROIX, DANIEL (Summer)

• CPAG 525 Public Finance, Budgeting and Reporting (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  CPAG : Planning and budgetary processes, resource allocation, controlled delivery and accountability in the public sector. Budgets, public funding, financial statements, reporting, and managing financial resources.

  Terms: Winter 2023

  Instructors: Careaga Olaechea, Patricia (Winter)

• CPL2 533 Developing Leadership Skills (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : This course presents an overview of leadership theories and applications. It provides students with an understanding of why and how leadership skills are critical to organizational success. Students will learn to apply and develop their own leadership skills to work effectively with others in an organizational setting.

  Terms: Winter 2023

  Instructors: Hunter, James Beatty (Winter)

  • Prerequisite: CORG 551

• CPL2 534 Leading in Diverse and Global Workplaces (3 credits)

  Offered by: Administration & Governance (School of Continuing Studies)

  Overview

  Policy : Exploring leadership within a global and diverse context. A variety of trends that have made managing workforce diversity an essential competency for future leaders are reviewed, as are the emerging skills that managers need to develop to succeed in a global environment.

  Terms: Fall 2022, Summer 2023

  Instructors: Hunter, James Beatty (Fall) Hunter, James Beatty (Summer)