Lagos State University - Faculties/Colleges/Schools/Centres
 

DEPARTMENT - Public Administration

HISTORY
The Unit was established in 1999 following Senate’s decision to carve it out from the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Social Sciences.  However, it did not take off till December, 2000 in Faculty of Management Sciences.  At present, the Unit offers the following Programmes:
1.         B.Sc in Public Administration
2.         Master of Public Administration (MPA)

MOTTO:
“BUILDING HUMAN CAPITAL FOR PUBLIC SERVICES”

OBJECTIVES
i.          To equip students with knowledge and skills required to operate as professionals in the public sector.
ii.         To encourage a better understanding of administrative methods and processes in the public sector.
iii.       To encourage development of public interest oriented graduates.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
As in the Faculty

STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATIONS
As in the Faculty

GENERAL REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE AWARD OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
A.      Degree Structures
1.       A programme of study shall be provided leading to a Bachelor’s degree to be denoted by the letters B.Sc., which may be awarded with Honours or as a pass.
2.       The basic structure of the degree programme in this department shall be of 4 years duration.  All the courses taken during the four years shall count towards the award of a degree.
3.       Students who possess appropriate Advanced Level of the General Certificate of Education or equivalent qualifications may be admitted to the second year of the programme and shall normally spend not less than six semesters for their degrees.  Courses taken at 200, 300 and 400 levels shall be used in the award of the degrees of this category of students.  Students in this category shall be required to take, in addition, appropriate prescribed GNS courses and other compulsory courses at the 100 level.
4.       All Units and Grade Points (or Grade Point Average, i.e., GPA) earned at every level of a 4-year or a 3-year programme shall be calculated on a cumulative basis and shall count equally towards the award of the degree.

B.      Courses and Course Units
5.       Instruction shall be by courses through the Course Unit System.
6.       A Course Unit is defined as a series of 15 one-hour lectures or tutorials, or an equivalent amount of assigned study or any combination of the above.  No course shall be assigned less than two (2) Units and more than three (3) Units, except Research Project which is 6 Units.
7.       There shall be four levels of courses, for the 4 years degree programmes numbered as follows:
          100 – 199   (100 Level Courses)
          200 – 299   (200 Level Courses)
          300 – 399   (300 Level Courses)
400 – 499   (400 Level Courses)

Course Codes shall be prefixed by PAD.  For instance, PAD 206 – Introduction to Public Administration II, for 200 Level Students.
8.       Course Status
The following standard terminology shall be used to indicate the status of each course:

C.      Programme Requirements
9.       Students Workload:
A student is normally expected to register for minimum and maximum courses of 18 units and 24 units respectively; however, a student may register for a minimum of 16 units or a maximum of 25 units per semester with the written permission of the Head of Department. To remain in full-time studies, a total minimum workload of 36 units in both the Harmattan and Rain Semester is required of every student.
10.     Graduation Requirements:
To satisfy the requirements for graduation, a student must take a minimum of 144 units (4-year programme) or 108 units (3-year programme) and a maximum of 225 units (4-year programme) or 126 units (3-year programme).
11.     In conjuction with graduation requirements above, a student shall be required to pass a minimum of 144 units (4-year programme) or 108 units (3-year programme) before he/she can qualify for the award of a degree of this University.
12.     All students shall be required to pass University required courses before they can qualify for the award of a degree of this University.
13.     Student Academic Status:
A student’s academic status will be determined on the basis of his performances in the First and Second Semester examinations for each of the 100, 200 and 300 levels of the degree programme.  The following categorization of a student’s status shall be used – “Good Standing” and “Probation”.

(c )     The period of probation shall be a maximum of two consecutive semesters, after which such a student will be asked to withdraw.

13.     A student on probation is allowed to register for courses at the next higher level in addition to his or her probation level courses provided that:
          (a)     the regulation in respect of student workload are complied with.

14.     Students who transfer from other universities shall be credited with only those courses relevant to the programmes of this university which the candidates have already passed.  Such students shall however, be required to pass the minimum number of units specified for graduation for the number of sessions spent in this University; provided that no student shall spend less than 2 years (4 semesters) in order to earn a degree of this University.
15.     Appropriate decisions on transfer cases shall be subject to the approval of Senate on the recommendations of the Faculty Board.
16.     Students who are to be away for the University for one reason or the other must apply for permission and on their return must ensure that they are re-absorbed before attending classes and or writing examinations.   Students who have been absent for a long time, on their re-absorption, should not graduate with Honours degree as stipulated in the University regulations.

D.      Examinations, Grading Procedure and Result
17.     Courses Assessment:
a)       All courses shall normally be evaluated by examinations and Continuous Assessment (c.A). Continuous Assessment shall be done through essays and tests.
b)      Scores from continuous assessment shall constitute 30% of the final marks for each of the courses.
18.     Examinations:
          (a)     Scores for examinations shall constitute 70% of the final marks.
          b)      Each course shall normally be completed and examined at the end of       the semester in which it is offered.
(c )     A written examination shall last a minimum of two hours for a two-unit course and a minimum of three hours for a three unit course.

19.     Pass Mark:
          The minimum pass mark in any course shall be 40%
GRADING SYSTEM
Each course unit shall be graded out of a maximum of 100 marks and assigned appropriate letter grade which is then assigned its appropriate grade point equivalent as in the following table:

E.      Degree Classification

20.     The determination of the class of degree shall be based on the cumulative grade point average earned at the 100, 200, 300 and 400 levels. The Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) shall be determined at the end of each semester taken into consideration all the courses so far offered.
21.     The Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) shall be used in the determination of the classes of degree according to the following ranges:

C.G.P.A Class of Degree

22.     (a)     The maximum length of time required to obtain a degree in the       department shall be twelve semesters for 4-year degree programme          and ten semesters for candidates admitted into the 200 level of the       programme.
(b)     For extension beyond the maximum period of a degree, special permission of Senate shall be required on the recommendation of the Faculty Board.

COURSE SCHEDULE
100 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER

200 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER

300 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER

Electives: Choose any one

SECOND SEMESTER

400 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER

NB:     Students are to take any three electives as follows:

• One out of  PAD 408 and PAD 414
• One of PAD 416 and PAD 402
• One of PAD 424 and PAD 422

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

FIRST SEMESTER

100 LEVEL:

POL 101: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE I
This course introduces students to the nature of politics, history and evolution of political science, nature of Power, Influence and Authority. Theories, origins and characteristics of State, Forms of Government; Democracy, Monarchy, Feudalism etc., political parties, pressure groups and ideologies, Functions of Students to the language and basic concepts of politics.

PAD 101:      INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION I
This course examines: The nature and scope of Public Administration; The Origin of the study of Public Administration; similarities and differences between Public and Private Administration; Public Administration/Politics dichotomy; Approaches to the study of Public Administration; Historical, legal, decision making, political, system etc. Theories of Administration: Administrative Theories (Henri Fayol), Scientific Management theories, Human Relations School etc.

PSY 101:       FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOLOGY I
This course will focus on: Theories of personality; the measurement of personality; situation determinant of behavior; psychotic behavior, conduct disorders; neurotic behavior; attitude to change; behavioural differences and diagnostic groups; psychotherapy influence of culture on behavior; basic psychological processes in learning; motivation; remembering and forgetting.

ACC 101:      INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING I
History, concepts and theory of accounting; users of financial statements; the accounting function and its relationship with the information system in an organization; accounting procedures and system; Double-Entry book keeping system, the trial balance; suspense accounts; types or errors and corrections; classification of expenditure between capital and revenue; methods of recording accounting data – manual and mechanical; bank reconciliation and control accounts; introduction to final accounts.

BUS 103:       INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS
This course will examine: The scope of business;  the character of business from social, legal and economic  perspectives; forms of ownership; organization and management; marketing production, finance and accounting functions; government and business; the social responsibility of business; international business; problems of Nigeria business enterprises.

ECO 101:      PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS I
The course focuses on: The basic problems of scarcity and choice; the concepts of optimality and equity; equilibrium and disequilibrium; micro-economics versus Macro-economics; demand, Supply and Price; types of resource allocation decision; methods of resource allocation in any economy; theory of the firm; introduction to welfare economics.

MAT 103:     MATHEMATICS FOR ARTS, EDUCATION, LAW, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES I
This course focuses on: Mathematical concepts in Management; set Theory; factors and exponents; logarithms, trigonometry; equation, functions and progressions; co-ordinate Geometry; inequalities; permutations and Combinations.

SECOND SEMESTER
ACC 102:      INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING II
The course is a continuation of ACC 101 and it focuses on: end of the year adjustments; objectives of Financial Statements; review of Financial Statements; manufacturing Accounts; merchandise Account; fixed Assets Acquisition; depreciation and Disposal; financial statement analysis and interpretations; sales and purchases of business; etc.

BUS 102:       ELEMENTS OF MANAGEMENT
The course will focus on the following: Basic Concepts in Management:  management: management principles; functions of the manager; planning: nature and purpose; Organization: nature and purpose; span of management, departmentalization, line and staff authority, service departments; staffing and directing: selection of managers; appraisal of managers; management development; nature of directing, motivation, leadership; controlling: the control process, control technique, recent developments in the control process; the Nigerian Environment: management problems in Nigeria, challenges of indigenization, transferability of management systems.

ECO 102:      INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS II
This course continues with the introduction to Macro-economics; National income determination; the public sector in the national economy; micro-economic policy objectives and instruments; introduction to money and banking; introduction to economic growth and development; trade politics with particular reference to Nigeria.

MAT 104:     MATHEMATICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES II
This course focuses on the following: Mathematics and Symbolic Logic; inductive and Deductive Systems; mapping and Transformation; Introduction to Complex Numbers; introduction to Vectors: Matrix and Determinants; discrete and Continuous Variables; the Straight line in various forms; The Circle; Maximal, Minimal and Points of Inflexion; integral Calculus; Integration by Substitution and By-parts; expansion of Algebraic; simple sequence and series.

MAT 106:     STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCE II
This course is a continuation of FMS 196 and it will examine the following: Elementary Probability Distribution, Normal; Binormal; poisson and Hyper geometric; elementary Sampling Theory; Estimation Theory; student’s Distribution; Statistical Decision theory; test of hypothesis for small and large samples; chi-square Distribution and Test of Goodness of Fit; linear Regression; correlation Theory; index numbers; Time series and analysis of time series.

GNS 102:      USE OF ENGLISH
Effective communication and writing in English; study skills; language skills, writing of Essay answers; instruction on Lexis; sentence construction, outlines and paragraphs; collection and organization of materials and logical presentation; punctuation and logical presentation of papers; phonetics; arts of public speaking and oral communication.

200 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER
PAD 201:      INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES & PROCESSES I
This course exposes students to the nature of administrative practices and processes in the public service.  Topics will include minuting and drafting, report writing, speech writing; recording and developing minutes of meeting.

PAD 203:      INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION II
This course is a continuation of PAD 101. It examines the following topics: Classification or typologies of Organization; Ideal type Bureaucracy; Nature, Strengths and Weaknesses. Functions of Bureaucracy. Nigeria Bureaucratic experience; The nature of Civil Service in Nigeria; The Structure and functions of Civil Service; The differences and similarities between Civil Service and Public Service; Civil Service Reforms; changing role of Public Administration in Nigerian socio-economic and political transformation; Public Administration and National Development; International Public Administration and its relationship with Domestic Public Administration.

POL 201:      NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
This course introduces students to: The various constitutional developments in Nigeria till date e.g. Clifford, Richard, Macpherson, Lyttleton, etc.  It will also take a view of the Nigerian civil service and other political developments in Nigeria; Nigeria politics as the Federal arrangement and Division of Powers (Nigerian Federalism); census, elections, representation, ethnic relations, the military, etc.

PSY 211:       INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
This course examine: The scope and methods of contemporary social psychology; the social context of behavior, social learning, motivation and perception; Person perception; theories of social interaction – cooperation and competition; problems of aggression; violence and war, Group processes and inter-group relations; attitude formation and change, Communication and effect of mass media; psycholinguistics, cross-cultural studies of personality and cognition; social psychological aspects of social change; attitude change.  Changing the behavior of others; Conformity, compliance and obedience; unintentional social influence, inter-personal attraction, altruism and helping.

ACC 201:      FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING I
This course focuses on: Accounts of non-profits making organizations; incomplete records and single entry; consignment accounts; joint-stock company accounts – Issues of shares and debentures; joint venture; departmental accounts; contract accounts, etc.

ACC 203:      INTRODUCTION TO COST ACCOUNTING
The focus of the course in on: The nature and purpose of accounting; cost classification; theory of cost behavior cost accounting aspects of materials, labour and overhead; process costing; treatment of joint and bye-products, etc.

CSC 201:       INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER FOR MANAGEMENT & SOCIAL SCIENCES
The course introduces students to a general knowledge of computers: History and development of computer technology; computer types – Analogue, Digital and Hybrid; Central preparation equipment; key punch, sorter, etc.; data presentation and transmission; nature, speed and error detection; systems analysis and design; the programming process; Problem definition, flow charting and decision table.

ECO 201:      MICRO-ECONOMICS I
This course focuses on the following: micro-economics theory; problems of scarce, resources and allocation of resources in product and factor markets with application to Nigeria and other economies; Analytical tools and model of micro-economics; theory of consumer behavior and demand; price and application of price theory; theory of production and cost; theories of firms under perfect, imperfect competition, monopolistic and oligopolistic competition; theory of employment and distribution in perfect and imperfectly competitive markets; linear programming and the Theory of the firm; general equilibrium analysis; and Introduction to welfare economics.

PAD 205:      INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC BUDGETING
This course will examine the following: Nature and scope of public budgeting; purpose and functions of public budget; historical development of Budgets; types of budgets; the public budgeting processes; methods and strategies of good budgeting; issues in government/public budgeting – the Nigerian example; comparison between democratic and military budgeting.

BFN 201:       MONETARY AND FISCAL THEORY
As in Banking & Finance Unit.

GNS 201:      HISTORY OF LAGOS AND ITS ENVIRONS
The following are the outline: Geographical location, extent and constituents of Lagos State; overview of political economic and social development; stages in the economic history of Lagos; crime in Lagos State; the growth and development of education in Lagos State; housing in Lagos; From LEDB to LSDPC; traditional religion and cultural manifestation in Lagos; general introduction to Islam and Christianity in Lagos.

SECOND SEMESTER

PAD 204:      INTRODUCTION TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
The course examines the evolution of Local Government systems in Nigeria, its functions, finance, staffing, etc; and problem of local governments.  Also to be examined in the relationship between the states and local governments and the place of local governments in a federal system of government compared with a unitary political system.  Party politics in local governments among others will also be examined.

PAD 206:      INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY MAKING
The course is basically an introductory one. Topics to be covered include: the concept of public policy; the essential characteristics of public policy; the need to study public policy; types of public policy; the origin and development of policy science; actors in public policy making; public policy making process; the structure of public policy; the ecology of public policy making; the problems of public policy making in Nigeria; public policy implementation: methods/techniques of policy implementation; implementation agencies; problems of policy implementation in Nigeria.

ACC 202:      INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING II
This course focuses on: Income measurement; Accounting standard SAS 1-4; Simple published accounts; Accounting for liabilities and shareholders’ equity; Containers accounts; Consignment accounts; Investment accounts; Value Added statements; Cash-flow statements; Royalty accounts; Introduction to partnership account.

ACC 204:      INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
The course focuses on: The nature, objectives and scope of management accounting; Relationship between management and financial accounting; Revision of cost behavior; introduction to cost volume profit analysis; introduction to standard costing and elementary variance analysis; budget and budgeting control; discounting techniques and investment appraisal.

ECO 202:      MACRO-ECONOMICS
The course will focus on the following: Differences in Micro and Macro-economics; national income measurement and determination; theories of consumption and investment; aggregate economic variables; basic models of national income; the Keynesian, classical and non-classical theories of money, inflation, output and employment; general equilibrium of products, money and labour market; level of employment and economic growth; application of economic principles to developed and developing countries with special reference to Nigeria.

PAD 202:      INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES AND PROCESSES II
This course is a continuation of PAD 201.  The course examines the format approach to writing cabinet memoranda, work executive council, communication skills; preparations for and of organization of conferences and seminars; conduct of government business; record management, etc.

MTE 204:     INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT PLANNING AND CONTROL
The course focuses on:       Disaggregated planning; Projects in the context of development planning; Cost benefit analysis of projects; Programme/project execution; Applications of critical path method (CPM) and projects; Project control.

MTE 208:     INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION
The focus of the course are as follows: the nature of project management choice of product/service; market research, production planning and development; choice of technology; technical feasibility assessment; evaluation of infrastructural facilities; site selection, social cost/benefit analysis; project finance; sources and cost of capital.

BFN 208:       INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT DECISION
The focus of the course are as follows: the nature of project management choice of product/service; market research, production planning and development; choice of technology; technical feasibility assessment; evaluation of infrastructural facilities; site selection, social cost/benefit analysis; project finance; sources and cost of capital.

BFN 208:       INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT DECISION
The course examines: Nature of Investment, Basis of Investment Decision, Risk Return Relationship, Financial Market; Nigerian Stock Exchange, Method of Raising Capital on the Capital Market; Stock Exchange Transaction and Transfer Procedure; Capital Market Efficiency; Capital Budgetary; Evaluation of Investment; Performance Interpretation and Analysis of financial Statement and Introduction to Port-folio Management.

GNS 202:      AFRICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
As prescribed by the GNS Centre, LASU.

300 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER
BUL 307:      BUSINESS LAW FOR NON-LAW STUDENTS.      
The course focuses on: The Nigerian legal system; sources of Nigerian law; hierarchy of Nigerian courts; commercial arbitration; law of contract; commercial contracts; commercial relations between persons; unfair competition; passing off and “trade label”
PAD 303:      DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
The course focuses on: Development administration and highlights the difference between development administration and administration development; examines the administrative, political and socio-economic context of development administration in developing; how development administration can be used as an agent of social change in developing countries with special attention to industrialization, rural development, agriculture, education, health services, communication, urbanization, etc.

PAD 305:      ISSUES IN NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
This course examines some: Major issues in Nigerian government and administration with particular focus on the political, economic and socio-cultural forces plaguing the nation; Issues as the evolution of the Nigerian nation, Nigerian federalism, resource allocation and control, class and ethnicity, religion; The military in Nigerian politics, leadership struggle, corruption, federal character, quota system, etc., will be examined.

PAD 315:      GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE URBAN CENTRES
This course examines: The principle of urbanization, its nature and special characteristics compared with Ruralism; theories of urban growth and development; problems involved in the planning and execution of major services in urban centres and the structure of political power within the system.

CSC 301:       COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION, LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The course focuses on” FORTRAN dialect; features of Fortran  IV; Further Fortran IV programming – double precision arithmetic; complex number computation; logical If statements; External statements; Calling parameter techniques; String processing; File linear, Sacks, deques, linked lists; three basic computer architecture, assembly language leaders, operating systems; PASCAL programming; input-output statement; Control statement.

IRP 307:        HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING
As in IRPM Unit

GNS 301:      INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
This course will examine: Brief survey of main branches of philosophy; Symbols in symbolic logic – conjuction, negation, affirmation, disjunction, equivalence and conditional statement, laws of thought; the method of deduction using rules of inference and bi-conditional quantification theory

BUS 307:       COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT
The course focuses on: Management practices in public and private sectors; compares the administrator/civil servant with the manager and highlights their various constraints; discretionary powers in private and public sectors; various theories and models that meet the needs of the private and public sectors; staff motivation, controlling, rewarding, training and development; financial management and materials management.

PAD 309:      TRADITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM IN NIGERIA. (SEE OLD HAND BOOK)
This course focuses on: The early history of Nigeria, the Nok culture in detail, migration and formation of pre-colonial centralized institutions: Hausa State, Kanem-Borno, Yoruba State, Benin, Oyo, etc., and Administration in these States. The formation of acephalous societies in pre-colonial East and West of the Niger Delta; North and South of the Benue; and Administration within these groups.

PAD 399:      RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The course focuses on: Skills of scientific investigation in public administration; information gathering, analysis and interpretation in dealing with business and organization behavior problems in Nigeria; the art of problem identification and analysis, data gathering, analysis and report writing; the problems and prospects of business research in a seller’s market like Nigeria.

300 LEVEL
SECOND SEMESTER
PAD 302:      ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE THEORIES
The course focuses on: Origin, structure and management of organizations; formal and informal organizations; the impact of norms in formal organization; organization theories; coordination, efficiency, retrenchment and growth, motivation, leadership communication and dynamics of change in organization; the concept of public administration, its emergence, complexity and maintenance; efficiency in public administration, politics and administration dichotomy; decentralization and devolution, delegation, conflict resolution strategies, leadership and innovation, communication skills.

MTE 304:     INTRODUCTION TO MATERIAL MANAGEMENT
The course focuses on: Materials purchase management; organization of materials purchasing department; purchase procedures and records; purchase price; material control; ABC analysis; determination of stock levels re-order quantity; stores organizations; types of organization; centralized stores; imprest stores and decentralized stores; Classification and coding of materials; store routine records, materials requisition control; receipts and issue of materials; stores material control records; perpetual inventory control system; methods of valuing materials issue; material ledger; methods of pricing material issue; treatment of loss of materials in stores.

BUL 308:      COMPANY LAW FOR NON-LAW STUDENTS
This course examines company law with the following in focus: Company law; powers and functions of directors; Introduction to taxation and taxation laws, etc.

POL 312:      ELEMENTS OF GOVERNMENT
The course focuses on: Nature of politics; society and state; constitution and constitutionalism; political ideology/political thought; Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, etc; organs of government (national governmental institutions); public administration; Political parties and pressure groups; public opinion and propaganda; elections; international politics and international order.

PAD 312:      NIGERIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The course focuses on: the practice of public administration in Nigeria with particular reference to its historical and present structure; the ecology of Nigerian public administration; the civil service; the field of administration; public corporations and fiscal systems, etc.

PAD 314:      PUBLIC PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
The course focuses on: Personnel management in the public service; The recruitment procedures, motivation, remuneration and performance evaluation in the public service, the state and industrial relations, industrial relations laws; trade unions (internal structures and its organization); employers association; industrial disputes and dispute settlement; collective bargaining; joint consultations and industrial arbitration council; the role of the civil service commission in staff matters; and line and staff structures in the public service.

PUL 308:       ADMINISTRATIVE LAW FOR NON-LAW STUDENTS
The course examines: The administrative process and purpose of government; separation of powers; legislation and delegated legislation; grievances and redress of grievances; nature of public corporations; administrators and discretionary power, etc; case studies.

GNS 302:      MAN AND SCIENCE
As prescribed by the General Nigerian Studies (GNS) Centre, LASU.

400 LEVEL
FIRST SEMESTER
FMS  401:     ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT
The course will focus on: Entrepreneurial theories; Interpersonal or personal characters and behavioural traits of entrepreneurs; Financial aspects of entrepreneurship in which business success is most commonly reflected and the external aspects of Entrepreneurship.

PAD 401:      PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
The course focuses on:       Environmental and Distinguishing Characteristics of Government and Institutional Accounting; State and Local Government Organisation for Financial Management; Special Methods of Accounting within the Legal and Financial Constraints for Local Governments, Hospitals and State-owned Companies; Planning in the Public Sector, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Accounting and the Budget process; Problems of developing output; Measure and quantification of effectiveness; Control and Accountability; Control, government control; Reporting and Auditing in the Public Sector; Accountability to the electorate.

PAD 403:      NIGERIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
The course focuses on: The history of Nigerian local government from pre-colonial to colonial era and the present time; Study of the machinery of local governments and an analysis on the problems posed by the operations of a federal government system; the impact of military rule on Nigeria’s local government systems; the different patterns of local governments and relationship between the local governments and other tiers in a federal system vis-à-vis a unitary system e.g.  Britain, Ghana, etc., Personnel, finance and materials management at the local government level will also be evaluated.

PAD 405:      SOCIAL AND WELFARE ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA
The course focuses on: Nature and development of social policy in the context of changing Nigerian social conditions and of the impact upon family and group organization; Welfare policies and social policies; Criminology; Policies and Problems in Education; Housing; Health and Provision of food.

PAD 407:      PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
The course examines: The objectives and classifications of public enterprises in Nigeria; Organisation and Problems of public enterprise; Performance Measurement and Control of public enterprise; Capital Structure and Funding; Relationship between State and Federal Parastatals; Commissioned Reports on Parastatals.

PAD 409:      INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
The course examine: The meaning and reasons why intergovernmental relations feature prominently in a federal state than in a unitary state; models of intergovernmental relations; the legal, political and administrative relationship between the different levels of government; pattern of relations; crisis of relations; Effects of the crisis on government functions; Management of intergovernmental relations in Nigeria; problems associated with the management of IGR in Nigeria; Types of conflict and cooperation between the various levels of government will be examined to explore the challenges in a federal system especially on public finance; constitutional responsibilities, etc., Policy development and the processes of federal policy implementation.

PAD 411: ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The course focuses on: Rules and principles governing the behavior of public servants and other officials in the public service; Organisational arrangements (both internal and external) for promoting ethical performance among public servants and makes an indepth analysis of the code of conduct of public officers; Review of relevant cases to illustrate the ethical dilemma of public officials will be made; the concept of accountability and transparency.

PAD 499:      RESEARCH PROJECT II
This is the first part of the final year research project intended to test the student’s  skill in analyzing and writing research report based on an empirical or library student of a specific subject matter or topic in public administration.

SECOND SEMESTER
PAD 402:      PULIC POLICYMAKING AND ANALYSIS
The course examines: The Nature and complexity of public policy making; policy planning and design; policy linkages; programme/project design and control; public policy making process; interest groups and political parties in policy making process; functionaries in policy making; public policy style and decision making style; theories of decision making; public policy implementation; assessment of human and material resources available for implementation, implementation gap; the concept of policy evaluation; formative and summative evaluation; policy evaluation research; policy evaluation technique; performance measurement/impact assessment; programme evaluation; the concept of public policy analysis;; the approaches to the study of policy analysis; policy analysis and methodology; policy analysis models.

The analysis of selected policies in Nigeria among which are: general economic and social development policies e.g. NAPEP, MDG’s etc. Health and welfare policy; Housing Policy; Defence and Foreign Policy; Education Policy; Agriculture and Rural Development Policy.

PAD 404:      COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The course examines: The concepts and evolution of comparative public administration; makes a cross national study of public administration both in emergent and developed states and the structures and functions or Bureaucracies in these states.

PAD 408:      INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
The course examines: The evolution, practices and problems of international agencies such as the United Nations, specialized agencies, and regional bodies in order to understand the roles they can and to play in the management of multilateral, bilateral and technical cooperation’s; International development; peace keeping; maintenance of the human environment, etc; The internal structures of these organizations and their influence on member governments.

PAD 414:      POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION AT THE STATE LEVEL
The course will examine: The place of the State in the national political system; Formal and informal settings of state governments; Administration and the policy process at state levels; Peculiar problems of state governments; Intergovernmental relations from the state perspective; Comparative studies of state policies.

PAD 418:      INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT
The course examines: The concept of fund development and identifies the political and administrative factors that are associated with it; Management and policy issues on rural development in Nigeria and the role of international institutions; typical efforts at rural development by Nigerian governments (past and present) will be evaluated with a view to identifying problem areas and possible prospects.  Such agencies like DFRRI, MAMSER, Better Life for rural dwellers, FSP, FEAP, Peoples’ Bank of Nigeria, etc; The differences between Urbanities and Ruralities will be highlighted as well as some relevant theories; Integrated efforts at rural development in terms of agriculture, road, health, education and other economic and social infrastructures by the National, State and Local governments.

PAD 416:      TOPICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
The course examines Selected topical and contemporary issues in public administration, examples of such issues are: ethics and accountability, civil service reforms; Corruption and mismanagement, public finance, bureaucratic pathologies, Politics/Administration dichotomy, materials management in the public sector, Local government administration, personnel administration; Development issues, ombudsman in public administration and administrative responsibilities; Commercialization and privatization, etc.

PAD 420:      HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA
The course focuses on: Principles and concepts of health administration; Application to various health programmes; Factors affecting the organization and administration of health services; Health economics; Trends in health services organization; Current programmes and pattern of medical care; Peculiarities of health institution and problems areas; Staffing and coordination in health institution and problems areas; Staffing and coordination in health institutions; Budgeting and financing of health institutes at all levels of government; The future of health institutions in Nigeria, etc.

PAD 424:      ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
The course examines the following: The origin and growth of higher educational institutions in Nigeria; Educational institutions as complex organizations; Peculiarities of mission and problem area; Academic profession and planning; Administrative profession and planning; Functions of key organs such as senate and governing council of the University, Faculties and Departments, Students Affairs, Bursary, etc; Student-Staff relationships; The interaction between higher educational institutions and their environment; Preparation and execution of University academic plans; financial planning and budgeting in higher institutions, etc

PAD 422:      COMPARATIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The course under takes a comparative view of local government administration in selected; Anglophone and Francophone West African countries as well as in some advanced countries such as Britian, France, USA, etc; Systems of local government of these countries are also examines in relation to the Nigerian experience.

PAD 406:      NIGERIA AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The course examines the inter-play of social forces in the economic development of Nigeria; Fundamental class issues of national, sectional and elitists’ interests in the economic development of Nigeria; The dependency and modernization theories as well as the political economy of Nigeria; Nigeria’s economy vis-à-vis a global economy with emphasis on structures of dependence, productive forces; Trade and investment patterns; Rural-Urban problems; Strategies for Nigerian’s economic development.

PAD 499:      RESEARCH PROJECT II

This is the second part of the final year research project intended to test the student’s skill in analyzing and writing research report based on an empirical or library study of a specific subject matter on topic in public administration.

LIST OF ACADEMIC STAFF & THEIR RESEARCH INTERESTS

S/N	NAMES	QUALIFICATIONS	STATUS	RESEARCH INTEREST
1	Prof. Iyabo Olojede	B.A. (Ife), MPA/M.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D, Public Administration (Ife)	Professor	Policy Studies, Women In Public Administration
2	Prof. Segun Matanmi	B.Sc., M.A.I.R, Ph.D	Professor	Human Capital and Collective Bargaining.
3	Dr. S. Banji Fajonyomi	B.Sc. M.Sc. (Ife), M.Phil/Ph.D, Political Science	Associate Professor	Development Administration, Local Government, Comparative Civil Service Studies.
4	Dr. H.A. Ekiyor	B.A, (Lake), M.A. (Can.) Ph.D, Political Science (Ibadan)	Associate Professor	Comparative Public Administration.
5	Dr. Femi Adeyeye	B.Sc., M.Sc., IRPM, Ph.D	Senior Lecturer	HRM, Training & Development, Business Policy
6	Dr. Ighodalo Akhakpe	B.Sc., M.Sc, Ph.D  (Ibadan)	Lecturer I	Policy Studies, Human Resources Management
7	Dr. Jacob O. Fatile	B.Sc. (Ife), M.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D, Public Administration (Benin)	Lecturer I	Comparative and Development Studies, Personnel/HRM, Inter-Governmental Relations and Research Methodology
8	Dr. Friday F.  Nchuchuwe	B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D, Public Administration (Benin)	Lecturer I	Comparative Public Admin., Public Policy Analysis, Research Methodology Development Studies.
9	Dr. Lekan Ayantuji	B.Ed., M.Ed. MBA, Ph.D	Lecturer I	Strategic Management, Labour – Employers Relations
10	Dr.(Mrs) T.M. Fapohunda	B.Ed. M.Ed. Ph.D	Lecturer I	Human Resource Mangement
11	Dr. Bankole A.R	B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D, AIPM	Lecturer I	HRM and Labor Administration
12	Dr. Yunus Dauda	B.A, MILR, Ph.D	Lecturer II	Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
13	Mr. S. Afegbua	B.Sc. (LASU), M.Sc. (Lagos)	Lecturer II	Public Policy Analysis, Local Government
14	Mr. O.V Ajulor	B.Sc. (LASU), M.Sc. (UDUS)	Lecturer II	Public Policy Making, Policy Analysis and Local Government Admin.
15	R. A. Okewale	B.Sc., M.Sc.	Graduate Assistant
16	Adekanbi Ayoade	B.Sc.	Graduate Assistant
17	Rabiu Fatimo O.	B.Sc.	Graduate Assistant

ASSOCIATE LECTURERS

1	Prof. A. Awotokun	B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D Public Administration (Ife)	Professor	Local Government Studies
2	Dr. (Mrs) Ayodele Fagbemi	B.Sc. MBA, Ph.D Business Administration (Lagos)	Associate Professor (Contract)	Administrative Studies, Women In Management, Public Management.
3	Professor Ajetunmobi M.O	B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D	Professor	Mathematics
4	Dr. S.O. Otokiti	B.Com, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D	Associate Professor	International Management; Project Analysis; Resource Management.
5	Dr. O.J.K. Ogundele	B.Sc., MBA, Ph.D, Business Administration	S/Lecturer	Entrepreneurship
6	Dr. Olugbemiga Adeyemi	B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D (Ife)	Lecturer I	Sociology
7	Dr. S.O. Ashamu	B.Sc., M.Sc., MBA, Ph.D Financial Management	Lecturer II	Monetary Economics, Public Finance
8	J.O. Abiola	B.Sc., M.Sc., M.B.F, FCA, FCT	Lecturer II	Financial Accounting
9	Dr. B.R. Yusuf	B.Sc.m M.Sc. (Lagos), Ph.D  ACA	Lecturer I	Costing Accounting, Financial Accounting.
10	Amos Oloruntele	B.Sc., M.Sc., Political Science	Lecturer II	Political Science
11	W. Alausa	B.Sc., M.Sc.	Assistant Lecturer	Psychology
12	S.A. Odubunmi	B.Sc. M.Sc.	Senior Lecturer	Economics
13	S. Olatoye	LL.B (Hons), LL.M, B.L	Lecturer I	Business Law
14	S.O. Eletu	LL.B, B.L	Assistant Lecturer	Business Law