Masters in Public Administration (MPA)

Core modules are:

• Making Policy
• Public Management and Leadership
• Public Financial Management

Optional modules include any three from the following list (or any other modules provided within the School of Government):

• Aid Management
• Conflict in Developing Countries
• Conflict Humanitarian Aid and Social Reconstruction
• Critical Approaches to Development
• Development Management
• Development Politics
• Disability and Development
• Gender and Development
• Governance and State Building in Developing Countries
• Human Resources / Managing People in Times of Global Changes
• International Political Economy
• Introduction to Development Projects
• Introduction to Disaster Management
• Non-Governmental Organisations in a Changing International Context
• Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development
• Poverty Inequality Interventions and Approaches
• Public Economic Management
• Rural Poverty and Development
• Social Analysis of Inequality, Poverty and Development
• Transforming Development for Sustainability
• Urban Poverty and Development

The optional modules listed on the website for this programme may unfortunately occasionally be subject to change. As you will appreciate key members of staff may leave the University and this necessitates a review of the modules that are offered. Where the module is no longer available we will let you know as soon as we can and help you make other choices.