| CourseID | Title | Credits | Course Description |
| 101 | Introduction to Public Administration | 3 | Introduction to public administration as a field of study, its development, and its linkages with its environment. The course reviews various influential administrative concepts and theories from the classical and human relations schools to more recent approaches such as results-oriented management and the New Public Management. The course emphasizes the effects of these conceptual approaches on the practices of public administration. |
| 203 | Public Policy Process and analysis. | 3 | Provides substantive knowledge of the policy – making process, sociocultural conditions, and processes characterizing agenda setting, and the formulation, adoption, implementation and assessment of public policy. The course also teaches how to evaluate public policies using critical analysis of (1) those factors that impede or facilitate the design and implementation of public policies and programs, and (2) assumptions about and evidence of the appropriateness, effectiveness, and ethical merits of analytic methods as instruments for improving policy. |
| 205 | Public Personnel Management | 3 | Policies and processes for dealing with governmental personnel, including staffing, personnel development, classification, performance appraisal, and equal employment opportunities, and the role it plays in our government and modern society. By the end of this course, the student should be familiar with the evolution of public service in the state of Kuwait; recruitment, selection, promotion, job classification and evaluation, compensation, performance appraisal and sanctions. |
| 206 | Public Organization Theory and Behavior | 3 | Review and analysis of both classical and contemporary organization theory literature in public administration, with special focus on public organizations. This course also considers administrative behavior within the context of public organizations and the consequent changes required in management. |
| 301 | Management of Public Enterprises | 3 | Covers the nature of Public enterprises and their relevance to development administration models, analysis of trends toward the role of Public Enterprises, their advantages and disadvantages, Management, financial systems, and linkages with government also. |
| 304 | Control in Public Administration | 3 | This course deals with the concept, objective & forms of control in PA., the major theories and approaches of administrative control mechanism to bring about a balanced government by checks and balances, Analysis of administrative accountability to control tendencies towards bureaucratic power expansions. |
| 306 | Public program Evaluation | 3 | The practice of program evaluation in the public sector is the focus of this course. Topics include both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods. Data collection, conduct of evaluation in organizational setting, and utilization of evaluation results. |
| 307 | Business Ethics and Society | 3 | This course primarily focuses on the interactions between government, business and society. It analyzes the political, legal, economic, and social environments of business organizations. The course also discusses ethical issues facing business organizations and the corporate social responsibility. Other topics include government regulations of business, privatization, business and public policy, and management of environmental issues. This course is primarily for students enrolled in CBA.. |
| 308 | Public Budgeting and Public Financial Management | 3 | Examining the main concepts, issues and current developments is public financial management. Collecting, safeguarding, disbursing public funds, understanding different budgetary systems, The elements of budget review and execution and various strategic and tactics employed by participants in the budgetary process. |
| 309 | Ethics and Public Values in Public Administration | 3 | Explores the ethical dimensions of public officials’ personal and professional judgments, including conceptions of public trust, conflicting interests and values, ends and means, keeping promises, and social equity. Cases are used to consider the ethics and values of public organizations. |
| 405 | Productivity in Public Organizations | 3 | Theory and application of productivity improvement in public organizations through technology, motivations, and other management techniques, emphasizing the role of public service quality management in improving public organizations. |
| 407 | Special Topics in Public Administration | 3 | This course deals with contemporary topics of special interests to the field of public administration which are not addressed in other courses. Some of those issues are: Transparency, Accountability and responsiveness, Corruptive practices in public administration, Privatization challenge to public administration, the effect of globalization on public administration and Administrative discretion. |
| 408 | Restructuring Public Administration | 3 | The changing role of public administration an the challenges it faces which necessitate shaping up public administration agencies. Analysis of the various factors which contribute to the stagnation and costly operations of public administration and alternative approaches to deal with these problems are of main concern. Strategies of bringing administrative change will be comprehensive and will not be limited to structural changes. |
| 409 | Public Management Information Systems | 3 | This course is to provide student with basic knowledge needed to understand (PMIS) with special emphasis on designing and utilizing public information system including information resource and data base, communication network for administrative decision making in various government organizations. This course also focuses on improving the efficiency of public administration by fostering on electronic government and operating the public management information system. |