Educational objectives
Knowledge and understanding
The student will acquire legal knowledge necessary for the training of senior public sector professionals, capable of understanding and managing the dynamics and relationships within public bodies and local, national and supranational administrations. This knowledge is essential to enable students to successfully take part in public competitions.
The student will acquire the targeted knowledge of techniques and analytical tools necessary to understand and interpret in a quantitative manner economic and business phenomena related to public administration in order to support decision-making and management processes.
The student will acquire knowledge of statistical inference, linear models and their generalisations will be consolidated. Knowledge of the management of the main IT systems useful for analysing, interpreting, visualising and communicating data, commonly used in public administrations, will also be acquired.
The student will acquire knowledge of organisational models, the business factors involved in the organisation of public enterprises, operating in different sectors (international organisations, central administrations, local authorities, health, public enterprises) and the consequences for the community.
The student will also acquire knowledge necessary for developing, managing and evaluating the impact of public projects, and knowledge useful for analysing organisational innovation processes and interpreting current tools and trends relating to personnel management in public companies.
The student will acquire the knowledge of economic theory needed to understand and analyse economic and business phenomena in the public sector in order to support decision-making processes. Knowledge of public policy and the tools necessary for the design of sustainable policies will be consolidated. Knowledge related to the labour market, education and health will also be deepened, functional to the development of public policy analysis and evaluation skills.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The student will acquire the ability to:
- identify and distinguish management concepts and problems in relation to real or hypothetical situations concerning public institutions and companies also in different contexts (e.g. different services/activities/institutions, different local or international institutional levels);
- develop and administer projects from the design phase to the operational execution phases, including the assessment of their impact on society, the economy and the environment.
Autonomy of judgement
The student will acquire the ability to:
- apply acquired knowledge to interpret economic and business phenomena in order to make directional and operational decisions in the context of public administration;
- select data and use appropriate information to describe a problem concerning the design, implementation and evaluation of public sector projects and policies, aiming at innovation and improvement of processes, products and results;
- relate models and empirical evidence in the study of public policy phenomena;
- reflect, also in a perspective of public ethics and sustainability with regard to future generations, on the responsibilities connected with the use of public resources.
Communication skills
The student will acquire the ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form the specialised content of the individual disciplines, using different registers according to recipients and communicative and didactic purposes, and to evaluate the formative effects of his/her communication.
Learning skills
The student will acquire the ability to:
- use information technology autonomously to carry out bibliographical research and investigations and for one's own training and further education;
- identify thematic links and establish relationships between different cases and contexts of analysis;
- frame a new problem systematically and generate appropriate taxonomies;
- develop general models from the phenomena studied.