Regional policy

Course: Local self-government

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service

Title
Regional policy
Code
ОК.5
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO04. Use modern statistical methods, models, digital technologies, specialized software to solve complex problems that arise in the process of exercising the right to local self-government PLO09. Communicate in a foreign language on professional topics, discuss problems of local self-government and research results. РLO12. Plan and carry out scientific and applied research in the field of local self-government, including problem analysis, setting goals and tasks, selection and use of theoretical and empirical research methods, analysis of its results, deliberate conclusions formulation. PLO15. Develop and teach special academic subjects on public administration in higher educational institutions.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The student has to: 1. Know: the basic principles of territorial organization of power in Ukraine, the basics of public authorities’ regulatory and legal support; the specifics of the organization of activities in the system of local self-government; conceptual provisions of regional policy formation and implementation, policy and law analysis. 2. Be able to use analytical and statistical methods of information processing on territorial entities social and economic development, public authorities performance indicators, work with national and international databases. 3. Possess the skills of analysis, synthesis, processing and visualization of statistical, sociological and other data, work with the legal framework, design and presentation of data using Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.).
Course content
Topic1. The essence and principles of state regional policy Topic 2. Regulatory framework for the formation and implementation of regional policy in Ukraine Topic 3. Administrative and territorial structure: structure, current state and prospects for improvement Topic 4. State strategy of regional development Topic 5. Regional policy in foreign countries Topic 6. Monitoring and evaluation of regional policy
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Регіональне управління : підручник / Нац. акад. держ. упр. при Президентові України, Каф. регіон. упр., місц. самоврядування та упр. містом ; за заг. ред.: Ю.В. Ковбасюка, В.М. Вакуленка, М.К. Орлатого. – К. : НАДУ, 2014. –516 с. 2. Місцеве самоврядування : підручник / за ред. В.М. Вакуленка, Ю.Ф. Дехтяренка, В.С. Куйбіди. – Київ : НАДУ, 2019. – 672 с. 3. Регіональна політика Європейського Союзу [Електронний ресурс] : підручник / [за ред. Віктора Чужикова]. — К.: КНЕУ, 2016. — 495, Режим доступу: https://kneu.edu.ua/userfiles/evrointegracii/ Pidruchnuk_ERDM_2016.pdf 4. Volodymyr Vakulenko, Viktoriia Koltun. Antientropic tools for providing sustainable balanced regional development.//Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, Volume 5 Number 1. Riga: Publishing House “Baltija Publishing”, 2019, 256 pages, p.21–26, URL: http://Baltic%20Journal%20%20% 205 1 _2019.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminar and practical classes, tests, questioning, independent tasks, analytical tasks, presentations, credit
Assessment methods and criteria
Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level assessment of the learned material, including theoretical training assessment – which is 25% of the total assessment for the semester and practical training assessment – which is 75% of the overall assessment for the semester. – semester assessment: 1. Oral questioning, discussion 2. Performing of practical (seminar) classes 3. Module control 4. Individual analytical task 5. Independent work – final assessment: the form of final control is a credit. – graduation evaluation:is carried out in the form of a written test and estimated at a maximum of 20 points and is carried out at one of the last practical classes. The final grade in the discipline for the student is set based on the results of the work during the semester as the sum of the points received during the academic semester, including the points obtained when performing independent work and final test.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Vakulenko
Department of Regional Policy
Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Regional Policy
Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service