DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Degrees Offered: B.A., M.A., E.M.P.P.

Chair: Huang, Irving Yi-Feng (黃一峯)

Brief History

The Department of Public Administration covers four major disciplines in the social sciences: law, political science, public administration, and public policy. Courses concerning law include: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Law and Society, Civil Code, Business Law, etc. Courses concerning political science include: Introduction to Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Western Political Thought. Courses of public administration include: Public Management, Organizational Theories, and Behavior, Personnel Management. Courses centered on public policy include: Policy Analysis, Political Economics, Policy Evaluation, etc.

The Master’s Program of Public Policy is designed to train and cultivate future administrators and policy researchers. Thirteen full-time faculty members and two adjunct professors offer about thirty graduate courses every year. The Graduate Program’s major objective is to furnish students with substantive knowledge and analytical skills necessary for policy research, such as problem seeking and identification, solution formulation, and impact assessment. As a result, the courses offerings can be categorized as the following types: (1) methodological courses, including Empirical Research Method, Policy Analysis, Comparative Public Policy, and Research Design; (2) a group courses focusing on public law, including Legal Policymaking, Constitutional Policymaking, Seminar in Administrative Law, and Seminar in Administrative Remedies; (3) courses of public administration and organization, such as: Public Organization and Management, Organizational Theories and Designation, and Seminar on Personnel Management; and (4) courses of various policy areas, including Seminar on Communications Policy and Regulation, Seminar on Fair Trade, Seminar on Securities Policy and Regulation, and Seminar on Ethnic Politics.

Our graduates can consider their future careers in the following fields: government agencies, nonprofit organizations, information technology, news and media, banks and financial organizations, and congressional staffs. Students receiving advanced degrees from the Public Policy Graduate Program are expected to pursue careers in government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector.

Admissions

    The admissions systems are simultaneously adopted at this department for the two programs. One is through recommendation and the other is examination. Beginning from the 2003-2004 academic year, one extension graduate class is opened for in-service students through examination.

Degree Requirements

    The degree requirements of the department are as follows:

1. Requirements for a degree of B.A.

A total of 141 credit hours are required for graduation. Of all the 141 hours, 105 credit hours are required courses and the remaining 34 credits are electives; 24 of the elective credits have to be selected from courses offered by the Department.

2. Requirements for a degree of M.A.

A total of 24 credit hours are required for graduation (excluding credits for thesis). Of all the 24 credit hours, 3 courses with a total of 6 credit hours are required and the remaining credits are electives. For this program, there are two semesters in each academic year. Normally, this program takes almost two and a half years to finish and students must register for a minimum of four semesters before graduation.

3. Requirements for a degree of E.M.P.P.

A total of 29 credit hours (excluding credits for thesis) are required for graduation. Of all the 29 credit hours, 2 courses with a total of 6credit hours are required and the remaining credits are electives. For this program, there are two semesters in each academic year. This program usually takes two to three years to complete and students must register for a minimum of four semesters before graduation.

Objectives

    The Department of Public Administration has two main objectives for its three programs. For the Undergraduate students, it is expected that students will good at administration and will be ready to undertake their professional jobs (including government agencies, nonprofit organizations, computer firms, news and media, banks and financial organizations, and staffs of congressman) or to carry on graduate program.
　

The objective for the M. A. and EMPA program aims at training future administrators and policy researchers. Based on that, our training objective is to furnish our students with a set of proper analytical skills which enable them to do policy research including problem seeking and identification, solution formulating, and impact assessing.

Curricula

    The courses offers basically fall into three categories: Firstly, a series of courses designated to better understanding of Public Administration and Public Policy, such as Public Organization and Management, Organizational Theories and Designation, Personnel Management, Policy Analysis and Policy Evaluation. Several case studies courses aim at various policy areas which containing Seminar on Communications Policy and Regulation, Seminar on Fair Trade, Seminar on Securities Policy and Regulation, Seminar on Ethnic Politics. Secondly, a group of courses focusing on Political Science are offered which consist of Introduction to Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Western Political Thoughts. Thirdly, there are a cluster of Law Courses, including Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Law and Society, Civil Code, Business Law, etc. Besides, there are a cluster of methodological courses, including Empirical Research Method, Policy Analysis, Comparative Public Policy, and Research Design; secondly, a group of courses focusing on public law are offered which consist of Legal Policymaking, Constitutional Policymaking, Seminar in Administrative Law, and Seminar in Administrative Remedies.

Faculty

The Department faculty consists of 19 full-time faculty members and 30 part-time teachers. Among the 19 full-time faculty members, 16 of them hold doctoral degrees. Continually hired each year to low down the student-teacher ratio is future target of the department.

　

Professors
　

Chen, Ming-siang (陳銘祥)
　

Associate Professors
　

Huang, Irving Yi-feng(黃一峯), Huang Shu-chun(黃淑均),
Hung-yen Angela Sung(宋鴻燕),Li, Pei-yuan (李培元),
Liou Charng-huei(劉長輝),Lin, Li-hsyang (林麗香), Lin, Tsong-jyi (林聰吉),
Ni, Tai-ying(倪台英)

Assistant Professors
　

Chen, Chih-wei (陳志瑋), Han, Charles Chao (韓 釗),
Huang, Chen-Yu (黃琛瑜), Hung, Mei-jen (洪美仁),
Liu, Shu-hui (劉淑惠), Liu, Ru-huei (劉如慧),
Liu, Louis Chih-hung (劉志宏), Tseng, Kuan-chiu (曾冠球),
Lee, Chung-pin (李仲彬),Hsiao, Yi-ching(蕭怡靖)

Lecturer
　

Chang, Jen-chieh (張人傑)

Journal

 The Journal of Law and Political Science is published by the Department since 1993. The Journal provides a forum for theoretical discussion and practical experience exchange in terms of their originality and contribution.

Prospects

The Public Administration Department stresses the importance of globalization and localization at the same time. Through the course of globalization, Information-oriented Knowledge and future-oriented training will contribute to the well-being of our students. To that end, the undergraduate students are encouraged to participate in various school activity, in addition to researching. For graduate students, the department emphasizes research publication and conference participation. The faculty deeply believes that untiring endeavor is the only way can promote academic reputation of the department.