PGDip Public Policy

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• Objectives
  The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy is designed to develop the key skills and competencies necessary for those working or wanting to work in public services and not for profit organisations. The course will enable you to contextualise, understand critically and analyse key developments within the public sector. The programme offers multi-disciplinary modules that cover policy making, policy analysis and evaluation, comparative public policy, public sector economics, governance and public management. Graduates of the Public Policy programme have successfully pursued careers in the public sector as policy analysts and public sector managers.
• Academic title
  PGDip Public Policy
• Course description
  Public Policy (PGDip)
  Duration: 9 months full-time or 2 years part-time
  
  Course Content
  This course requires you to take the following core modules:
  
  Making Public Policy
  Policy Analysis and Evaluation
  Research Methods and the Dissertation
  Comparing Public Policy
  Globalisation, Europeanisation and Public Policy
  Public Management and Governance
  Public Sector Economics
  You will also be able to take 20 credits’ of elective modules from the following list:
  
  Constitutional and Public Law
  Developments in UK Health and Social Care Policy
  Developments in UK Public Policy
  Information Age Management in Government
  International Social Policy
  Leadership, Strategy and Performance in the Public Sector
  Management of Change
  Managing People
  Public Administration in Developing and Transitional Countries
  Public Sector Financial Management
  
  Please note that modules may be subject to change.
  
  Course Structure
  The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy can be taken on a full-time basis over 9 months or part-time over 2 years.
  
  You must take 120 credits of modules, split into three 20-credit core modules, four 10-credit core modules, and either two 10-credit elective modules or one 20-credit elective module.
  
  Teaching on this programme is cutting edge, research-informed, multidisciplinary, and internationally-focused. Modules are normally taught by a mix of lectures, group-work, and class discussion. Most modules are taught weekly over one semester; a few modules are taught over three consecutive days.
  
  Nearly all modules are timetabled to take place on one or two days in the week. Part-time students need to come into the University for about 30 days per academic year.
  
  Taught modules are normally assessed by a 3,000 to 5,000-word essay (or equivalent).
  We also offer an MA in Public Policy, which carries a dissertation requirement.
  
  As a student on the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Policy, it would be possible for you to upgrade to the MA in Public Policy if you perform satisfactorily in the first semester if full-time or in the first academic year if part-time.
  
  You may also be interested in the Masters in Public Administration or Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration
  
  Key facts
  This course is supported by work taking place in the International Centre for Public and Social Policy. Based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, this is a recently established and expanding multidisciplinary centre of research and postgraduate teaching.
  

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