Introduction to Undergraduate Majors

Introduction to Undergraduate Majors

(I) Public Administration

Confronted with the economic and social development demand, in accordance with the talents cultivation orientation of “broad specification, thick foundation and strong capability”, the major of public administration cultivates the high quality well-rounded management talents that have good command of administration theory and method, are familiar with the national policies, rules and regulations and proficient in leadership skill, human resources, administration and logistics and have relatively strong management and coordination capability, aid decision making capability and writing skills as well as strong social responsibility consciousness and innovation spirit.

With a long history, the major of public administration firstly enrolled the students in 1992 and was authorized to offer the master’s degree in 2004 and offer the master’s degree for public administration and the professional master’s degree for MPA in 2006, and offer the doctor’s degree for public administration in 2018 and was approved to establish the center for post-doctoral studies in 2019. Now it has established the complete talents cultivation system covering undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, post-doctoral and international students. In 2012, it was ranked Top 30% in China Discipline Ranking; in 2013, it was selected as the key discipline in Hubei Province. In 2017, the discipline of public administration was ranked B+ in the 4^th round of China Discipline Ranking, ranked Top 10%-20% in China and was one of the best humanity and social science disciplines besides geology and geological resources and geological engineering ranking A+. In 2021, the major of public administration was approved as the national Class-One undergraduate program. According to the ranking of public administration by Academic Ranking of Chinese Universities in 2021, the major of pubic administration ranked Top 17% (30/175) among Chinese universities and selected as the national Class-A major.  

Platform courses of public administration: Introduction to Public Administration, Higher Mathematics C, Python Programming B, Research Method of Social Research and Social Investigation and Statics; Fundamental courses: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Management Science, Politics, Sociology, Constitution and Administrative Law, Public Economics (Fiscal Science), Public Organization Theory, Science of Organizational Behavior, History of Chinese and Foreign Political Thought and Public Decision-making; Main professional courses: Public Administration, Contemporary Chinese Government and Politics, Local Government Management, Administrative Ethnics, E-government, Office Management, Leadership Science, HR Development and Management, Social Security Science (bilingual), Municipal Administration, Non-profit Organization Management, Leadership Science and Public Crisis and Emergency Management; Professional elective courses: Comparative Political Institutions, Governmental Public Relations,  Strategic Management of Public Sector, Frontier of Public Administration, Non-profit Organization Management, Community Management, Municipal Management, Mass Communication Studies, Natural Resources Management, Writing and Communication of Official Document, National Civil Servant System, Inspection and Supervision, Introduction to Social Work, Financial Management and Accounting; Practice courses: Military Training, Python Programming B, Teaching Practice of Public Administration, Training of Mock Spokesperson, Training of Mock NPC and CPPCC and Evidentiary Hearing, Social Investigation, Practice of Public Organization Management, Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship Management, Graduation Practice, Graduation Dissertation (Design).

The major of public administration pays attention to the practice teaching and the cultivation of the innovation capability and is featured and advantageous in resources and environmental policy analysis, land administration and public policy. It has the teaching and research platforms including Key Laboratory of Legal Institution Research under Ministry of Natural Resources, Key Lab of Analysis and Simulation of Public Policy and Key Lab of Quantitative Analysis and Simulation of Public Administration as well as the practice teaching bases including Zigui Industry-University-Research Base, the People’s Government of Hongshan District, Wuhan City, the People’s Government of Xiaogan City, the People’s Government of Huanggang City, the People’s Government of Jiayu City. Every year, over 60% of the undergraduates are enrolled for master’s degree, civil servants or further study abroad.   

 (II) Public Service Management

The major of public service management researches the activities, systems and their operation mechanism and it is concurrently featured in research, applicability and comprehensiveness. This major cultivates the high quality well-rounded management talents that have the modern management theory and are familiar with the national policy, rules and regulations and proficient in the practice of public service management and HR management, with the crossing-disciplinary thinking of economics, management science and sociology and relatively strong policy analysis capability as well as the innovation capability.  

The major of public service management mainly relies on the disciplinary advantages of public administration and the geosciences background and cultivates the well-rounded administrative talents and research-oriented talents with the CUGer’s characteristics, humanities and scientific accomplishments, professional and disciplinary knowledge, and leadership and implementation capability concurrently in answer to the demand of the government and the non-governmental organization. This major began to recruit the students in 2000 and was authorized to offer the master’s degree for public administration and the professional master’s degree for MPA in 2006, to offer the doctor’s degree for public administration in 2018. It was approved to established the center for post-doctoral studies in 2019. Now it has established the complete talents cultivation system covering undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, post-doctoral and international students. In 2012, it was ranked Top 30% in China Discipline Ranking; in 2013, it was selected as the key discipline in Hubei Province, ranked B+ in the 4^th round of China Discipline Ranking in 2017, ranked Top 10%-20% in China and was one of the best humanity and social science disciplines besides geology and geological resources and geological engineering ranking A+. it is also the best humanity and social science discipline with the best ranking in CUG. According to the ranking of public administration by Academic Ranking of Chinese Universities in 2021, the major of pubic service administration ranked Top 14% (29/206) among Chinese universities and selected as the national Class-A major.  

Platform courses of public service administration: Introduction to Public Service Administration, Higher Mathematics C, Python Programming B, Research Method of Social Research and Social Investigation and Statics; Fundamental courses: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Management Science, Politics, Sociology, Constitution and Administrative Law, Public Economics (Fiscal Science), Public Organization Theory, Science of Organizational Behavior, History of Chinese and Foreign Political Thought and Public Decision-making; Main professional courses: Public Service Administration, Municipal Administration, Non-profit Organization Management, Social Security Science (bilingual), Leadership Science, HR Development and Management, Organization Design and Post Management, Employment and Training, Performance Evaluation and Salary Management and Labor Relationship Management; Professional elective courses: Comparative Political Institutions, Local Government Management, Strategic Management of Public Sector, Frontier of Public Administration, Public Crisis and Emergency Management, Community Management, E-government, Mass Communication Studies, Public Relations, Natural Resources Management, Writing and Communication of Official Document, National Civil Servant System, Office Management, Introduction to Social Work, Financial Management and Accounting; Practice courses: Military Training, Python Programming B, Teaching Practice of Public Service Administration, Training of Mock Spokesperson, Training of Mock NPC and CPPCC and Evidentiary Hearing, social investigation, Practice of Public Organization Management, Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship Management, Graduation Practice, Graduation Dissertation (Design).

After enrolled, the undergraduates can apply for the successive undergraduate-graduate-doctor program. After graduation, the undergraduates are suitable for the public institutions, large and medium-sized enterprises and non-profit organizations to be engaged in HR management, comprehensive management or research work. Every year, about 40% of the undergraduates are recommended to or enrolled by the key universities for master’s degree.  

(III) Emergency Management

The major of emergency management mainly researches how to establish and perfect the system, mechanism and legal system of emergency management and how to formulate and optimize the emergency pre-plan. This major mainly cultivates the well-rounded talents to be engaged in the emergency management or comprehensive management in the Party and government organizations, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, who are equipped with theory of Marxist, understand the guidelines and policies of the Party and the national laws and regulations, have a good command of the trans-disciplinary theory and method of emergency management, management science and engineering, public administration, have crisis consciousness, system thinking and scientific decision-making capability, are familiar with the scene of emergent public incident, emergency pre-plan and planning, emergency response and drilling, decision-making and command, organization and coordination, implementation and supervision, resources guaranty and technical measures and have the responsibility spirits, innovation consciousness and social responsibility consciousness.   

The major of emergency management, guided by the discipline of public administration, in combination with the disciplinary resources of management science and engineering, featured in geosciences, focuses on the natural disaster emergency management, establishes the “overall process talents cultivation knowledge system of “prior prevention, incident response, in-process disposal and rehabilitation” for the emergency management and cultivates the well-rounded talents who have a good command of trans-disciplinary theory and method, are familiar with the emergency management practice and have the crisis consciousness, system thinking and scientific decision-making capability. The major of emergency management was applied for establishment in 2020 and will enroll the first batch of the undergraduates in Sept., 2021.  

The platform courses of emergency management: Introduction to Emergency Management, Higher Mathematics B, Linear Algebra B, probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics B, Applied Statistics B, Operations Research A, Python Programming A, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Introduction to Big Data B,  Introduction to AI; Fundamental courses: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Constitution and Administrative Law, Public Administration, Science of Organizational Behavior, Public Policy and Research Method of Social Science; Main professional courses: Introduction to Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Pre-plan Management, Disaster Economics, Theory and Method of Emergency Decision-Makin, Emergency Management Information System, Emergency Psychology and Behavior, Risk Management, Natural Disaster and Disaster Risk Evaluation; Professional elective courses: Physical Geography, Geographic Information System (GIS), Emergency Planning and Management, Natural Resources and Eco-environment Safety, Introduction to Land Space Planning, Online Public Opinion Management, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Economics, Public Economics, Emergency Laws and Policies, Emergency Leadership, Introduction to Emergency Management Technology, Non-profit Organization Management, Community Management and Writing and Communication of Official Document.

 (IV) Cultivation Links and Requirements of the Undergraduate Major

1. Curriculum learning

Classroom lecture and experimental courses, running through the four undergraduate years, step by step from the fundamental courses to the professional courses.

2. Teaching practice

The students will pay a visit to the teaching practice bases including Zigui Industry-University-Research Base, the People’s Government of Hongshan District, the People’s Government of Huanggang and the People’s Government of Xiaogan City, the People’s Government of Jiayu County for a four-week’s practice to verify the learning effect in the first two undergraduate years and offer reference for the following learning.  

3. Comprehensive skill training

To be carried out in the first semester in Grade Three, including mock spokesperson training, leaderless group discussion and so on to further improve the basic skills and comprehensive accomplishments of the students.  

4. Graduation practice

To be carried out from the second semester of Grade Three to the first semester of Grade Four. The students are required to carry out the graduation practice in the enterprises and institutions and the governmental sectors in combination with their titles of the dissertation.  

5. Graduation design

To be carried out in the second semester of Grade Four. The students are  required to write the dissertation under the instruction of the tutor, participate in the oral defense based on the graduation practice. Only the one passing the oral defense can be granted the bachelor’s degree.