PA Courses

BPA Program || MPA Program || M.Phil Program

Semester Wise Course Breakup

Semester

Courses

Credit

 

 

Hours

1st

Women in Development (University Required Course)

2

 

Language Skills (University Required Course)

2

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Public Administration

3

 

 

 

 

Principles of Accounting

3

 

 

 

 

Management Theory and Practice

3

 

 

 

 

Public Sector Marketing

3

 

 

 

 

Sub-total Credit Hours

16

2nd

Skills for Research (University Required Course)

2

 

Orientation to Public Policy

3

 

 

 

 

Fundamentals of Finance

3

 

 

 

 

Public Economics

3

 

 

 

 

Organizational Behavior

3

 

 

 

 

Public Administration in Pakistan

3

 

 

 

 

Sub-total Credit Hours

17

3rd

Human Resource Management

3

 

Administrative Law

3

 

 

 

 

Auditing System in Pakistan

3

 

 

 

 

Research Methodology

3

 

 

 

 

Comparative Public Administration

3

 

 

 

 

Elective I

3

 

 

 

 

Sub-total Credit Hours

18

4th

Project Management

3

 

Statistical Tools & Techniques

3

 

 

 

 

Elective II

3

 

 

 

 

Elective III

3

 

 

 

 

Elective IV

3

 

 

 

 

Sub-total Credit Hours

15

 

Grand Total

66

 

 

 

Semester Wise Courses and Credit Hours Breakup at a Glance

 

Sr.

Course

Credit Hours

 

Semester I

1

Advanced Research Methods

3

2

Governance and Public Policy

3

3

Advanced Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

3

4

Policy Analysis, Design and Implementation

3

 

                    Sub-total credit hours

12

 

Semester II

5

Community Planning Engagement and Governance

3

6

Corporate Responsibility and Change in Global Context

3

7

Organizational Development and Change Management

3

8

Philosophy of Public Management

3

 

                    Sub-total credit hours

12

 

Semester III

 

Workshop on Proposal Development*

0

 

Proposal Defense**/Thesis

6

 

Semester IV

 

Thesis

 

 

Grand total credit hours

30

*non-credit compulsory course

**Students will be required to defend their proposal in front of a committee before proceeding for their research work.