Public Governance Studies / Courses on Bachelor level

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1 Public Governance Studies / Courses on Bachelor level Administrative Sciences: FIHA1002 European Governance5 ECTS Regional Studies: ALUE2016 Globalization and Geography of Enterprise 5 ECTS ALUE2020 Regional Development Policies comparison between countries 5 ECTS Public Management HALL2031 Government and Management 5 ECTS Social and Health Management SOTE2015 Welfare Game Complex nature of social and health services 6 op Philosophy: FILO1011 Philosophy of Science 3 ECTS FILO2005 Ethics 5 ECTS FILO2302 Philosophy of Multiculturalism 5 ECTS < European Governance Code and credits: FIHA1002, 5 ECTS Learning outcomes: The course provides an understanding of European governance. In the end of the course the student will be familiar with the functioning of the European Union. Core content: The emphasis is on the basics of the 1) EU-organization and decision-making, 2) EU law and domestic regulation, 3) Europe of regions, 4) governing welfare in Europe, 5) co-ordination and management of the EUstructural funds projects. 1. McCormick: Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction. Palgrave MacMillan Articles (announced during lectures) Teaching methods: Lectures max 15 hours. Completion of the course: Exam based on lectures and literature. Grading: On a scale of 1-5 / fail. <Globalization and Geography of Enterprise Code and credits: ALUE2016, 5 ECTS Time: Autumn term. Learning outcomes: Student understands the role of geography in the globalization process of the enterprises and the interconnectedness within the 1

2 global economy. Student can identify the mechanisms of globalization processes and their outcome. Core content: Geography of global economy, transnational corporations, global production networks, regional cluster development, geographies of innovation, local economic development, environmental impacts of global production networks, winners and losers of the global economy, global governance. 1. Dicken: Global Shift. Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. 7th edition Teaching methods: Introduction lecture, exam. Completion of the course: Exam based on literature. Grading: On a scale of 1-5/fail. Contact person: Professor Seija Virkkala. Additional information The course will be organized during the academic year <Regional Development Policies comparison between countries Code and credits: ALUE2020, 5 ECTS Time: Spring term. Learning outcomes: Student gains basic understanding of comparative analysis of regional development policies between countries especially in European Union context. Student can explain how to use indicators in comparative analysis within the policies of different countries. Core content: Comparison of regional development policies through indicators between different countries. EU regional programmes. Use of indicators, Open Method of Coordination, learning through monitoring, smart specialisation strategies. 1. EU programmes and programme evaluations. Teaching methods: Lectures max. 12 h, seminar 8 h, essay. Assessment: Essay based on lectures and literature. Contact person: Professor Seija Virkkala. Additional Information: Teaching in English, essays in English or in Finnish. The course will be organized during next time the academic year <Government and Management Code and credits: HALL2031, 5 ECTS Learning outcomes: Students learn to understand the changing role of management at multinational, particularly European, and national levels of public governance. Core content: A management perspective to governance practices and government renewal. 1. Herman, Risse and Brewer eds.: Transnational Identities: Becoming European in the EU. Lanham

3 2. Pollitt & Bouckaert: Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis, New Public Management, Governance and the Neo-Weberian State (third edition). Oxford Pages announced during lectures. Completion of the course: An exam based on lectures (10 hours) and literature. Grading: Essays 1-5 or fail. Additional information: This course is intended also for those students who are conducting obligatory internationalization studies with literature option. < Welfare Game Complex nature of social and health services Code and credits: SOTE2015, 6 ECTS Core content: The social and health services practical, political and professional system is being analyzed via the Welfare Game by using the viewpoints of public, private and third sector. The game is based on real world cases that are being processed with the professionals of each field. The game scenarios vary according to choices and decisions made by students. Learning outcomes: By the end of this course, students should have an understanding of the complex nature and reality of social and health service organizations. Completion of the course: Lectures and proceeding in the Welfare Game. Literature and teaching methods: English study material that supports the theme of the Welfare Game. Lectures and strategic proceeding in the Welfare Game max 30 hours. Language: English. Grading: On a scale of 1-5/fail. <Philosophy of Science Code and credits: FILO1011, 3 ECTS Period: The 2nd period in the autumn term. Aim of the course: On completing the course students will know basic questions of philosophy of science and ethics of science and problems related to concept and theory formation and explaining in science. Completion of the course: 10 hours of lectures on the starting points, objectives and requirements of scientific thinking and research. A book exam. Course literature: 1) A. F. Chalmers, What Is This Thing Called Science? or J. Elster, Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences and 2) Alex Rosenberg, The Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Second Edition. Teacher: Professor Tommi Lehtonen, Faculty of Philosophy. < Ethics Code and credits: FILO2005, 5 ECTS 3

4 Aim of the course: On completing the course students will know the concepts, problems, central trends and theories of ethics. Completion of the course: 10 hours of lectures and an exam based on the required reading or a book exam. Course literature: D. McNaughton, Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics R. Norman, The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics A. MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. Teacher: Professor Tommi Lehtonen. Organiser: Faculty of Philosophy. <Philosophy of Multiculturalism Code and credits: FILO2302, 5 ECTS Learning Outcomes: In this course, we discuss cultural boundaries and crossing borders between cultures from various theoretical and critical perspectives in philosophy and the social sciences. On completing the course you are able to use philosophical concepts and theories to address issues related to multiculturalism. Moreover, you know different manifestations of multiculturalism and are able to look for rational and constructive solutions to problems of multicultural societies. Content: The concept, definition, and basis of culture as a philosophical issue, The concept of a point of view and the perspective challenge in the context of cultural studies, Incommensurability and untranslatability related to the comparison and evaluation of different cultures and traditions, Contemporary cultural currents and changes, including postmodernism, globalization, and secularization, The relationship between globalization and multiculturalism: one hybrid or many non-hybrid cultures?, Cultural recognition and multiculturalism, Objections against multiculturalism, Tolerance and multi-attractedness, Cultural boundaries, Cultural conflicts, and Cultural encounters. Language: English. Teaching Methods: Lectures 14 hours. Modes of Study: Lecture course, self-study. Study Material: 1. van Hooft, Stan: Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics Rawls, John: The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" Murphy, Michael: Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction Grading: 1 5 / failed. 4

5 Public Governance Studies / Courses on Master level Public Management IMCO3004 Management and Leadership 5 op Public Law: JOIK3012 Comparative Law 5 ECTS < Management and Leadership Code and credits: IMCO3004, 5 ECTS Timing: 1st year autumn Learning Outcomes: You learn to identify basic assumptions about management and leadership, to understand the meaning of different organizational contexts, and to develop reflective skepticism towards knowledge claims of management studies, practicing managers, media and the general public. Content: Course contents: Management as ideas, discourses and socially constructed practices, Key management theories, Key leadership theories, and Different organizational contexts. Language: English. Teaching Methods: Lectures max. 14 hours. Modes of Study: Lectures, exam based on lectures and course literature. Study Material: Examined reading: 1. Cunliffe: A very short, fairly interesting and reasonable cheap book about management Jackson & Parry: A very short, fairly interesting and reasonable cheap book about studying leadership Articles as specified by the lecturer. Grading: 1 5 / failed. Obligatoriness: Compulsory. Additional information: The course is part of IMCo program. <Comparative Law Code and Credits: JOIK3012, 5 ECTS Time: Spring semester. Learning outcomes: The student knows the differences of various judicial systems and gets knowledge how to make comparative law studies. Content: 1) Methods of comparative law 2) Classifications and knowledge of legal systems Teaching methods: Seminar 8 hrs and self-study. Assessment: Seminar presentation and written essay. 1. Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.): The Oxford handbook of comparative law, Laine: Access to Finnish Public Law. Helsinki

6 3. Angel-Manuel Moreno (ed.): Local government in the Member States of the European Union: a comparative legal perspective, 2012 or Suksi: Sub-State Governance through Territorial Autonomy, 2011 or Rene Seerden (ed.): Administrative Law of the European Union, its member states and the United States, 2007 or Wade, William: Administrative law, Contact person: University lecturer. 6