PPP200 | POLICY PRACTICE

This course is the penultimate course of different policy related courses the students learn through 2 year MPP programme. Prerequisite to the course are completion of the courses on Introduction to Public Policy (1st trimester), Policy Analysis and Clinic (2nd trimester), Policy Dialectics (3rd Trimester), and Policy Design and Evaluation (4th trimester). As the penultimate course, the course will review practical / ethical dilemmas a practitioner experiences in different decision making situations, and how to respond to.

The course shall be divided into three modules:

(1) The first module will be focused on leadership:

(2) The second module is focused on reflexivity: This module will enable students to appreciate practice contexts as different from activist contexts and how to integrate reflection and action into one unit.

(3) The third module will be skills for practice. This module will be led by alumni. These are organised as workshops of two hours. The focus will be on financial management skills, negotiating skills, advocacy skills and how to work with politicians. These workshops will be spread throughout the course.

The course will be concluded by a public management framework of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) that enables students to appreciate context-dependency in policy practices.