The aim:
1. To acquaint students with critical concepts in the field of public administration and its environments.
2. To provide fundamentals of administrative policies.
3. To provide fundamentals of public law.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Students have knowledge of the environments within which public administration operates.
2. Students have knowledge of the solutions which are offered by public administration to political, legal, social, cultural, technological and economic problems – domestic and international.

Acquired skills:
1. Students are able to apply provisions of public law.
2. Students are able to classify and assess solutions in the field of public administration and its environments.
3. Students are able to compare responses to common or similar administrative tasks and problems in different countries and in the EU.

Acquired social skills:
1. Students are able to present and defend in public their positions regarding public administration and administrative policies.
2. Students understand the need to improve and update their knowledge.

Course contents: 
1. Administration.
2. Public administration.
3. Administrative resources.
4. Administrative policies.
5. Administrative law.
6. Administrative policies in the European Union.
7. Implementation of administrative policy – detailed issues.

Recommended reading: 
1. Administrative Law and Policy of the European Union , Herwig C.H. Hofmann,, Gerard C. Rowe,, Alexander H. Türk, UOP.
2. Selected Policies of the European Union. Evolution in the Context of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Europe 2020 Strategy, Dyduch, J., Klimowicz, M., Michalewska-Pawlak, M., Aspra. Warszawa 2012.
3. The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe, Ongaro, E., van Thiel S. (eds), Palgrave. 2018.
4. The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, Soren C. Winter, SAGE. 2013
5. Public Policy Making: Process and Principles, Larry N. Gerston, M.E. Sharpe. 2010.

Additional reading: 
1. Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa, Gedion Onyango, Routledge. 2022.
2. The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America, B. Guy Peters, Carlos Alba Tercedor, Conrado Ramos, , Emerald Publishing Limited. 2021.
3. The human right to freedom of religion in the Polish education system, Magdalena Tabernacka, Nordicum-Mediterraneum. Akureyri 2018.
4. The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence in the polish social safeguard system, Magdalena Tabernacka, Nordicum-Mediterraneum. Akureyri 2017.