PREPARATORY COURSES (3 CREDIT HOUR EACH) (REQUIRED)

• Computer literacy &
• Communicative English
• Fundamentals of Public Administration & Political Science
• Fundamentals of Economics

CORE COURSES

• Governance and Public Policy
• Major Schools of Development Thought
• Leading issues of Governance of Bangladesh
• Strategic Management and Leadership
• Important Laws: Constitutional Laws, Jurisprudence, Administrative Laws, International Laws

• Local Government: Decentralization, Devolution
• Public Policy Analyses
• Human Resource Management
• Principles, practices and dynamics of research management
• Project Development and Management.
• Environmental Economics.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Elective Courses may be clustered into four broad areas as below:

Group A:  Policy Issues

• Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
• Laws of International Governance and Cooperation
• Current Issues in Globalization
• Globalization: Its Impact
• Poverty Alleviation

Group B: Enhancing Performance

• E-governance & IT

Group C: Building Partnership

• Public-Private Partnership
• NGOs as Development partners
• Land Management

Group D: Accountability

• Ethics & Anti-Corruption
• Gender, Diversity and Governance
• Human Rights and Social Justice