About the department (KSR)
B 6804 – Legal specialization
The primary characteristic element of the bachelor's degree in public administration is interdisciplinarity based on the broader humanitarian basis of the study program aimed at the widest possible practical application of graduates. In the course of their studies, graduates will acquire, in addition to general and special legal knowledge, also knowledge in legal disciplines related to public administration issues. In relation to the master's field of law, graduates of the bachelor's degree program will acquire the same general basis of legal knowledge. As part of the interdisciplinary study of public administration itself, they will also acquire sufficient professional background in economic, sociological, political, geographical, historical-legal and psychological, necessary for understanding the issues of public administration and knowledge in the field of managing processes in public administration. The graduate should be able to navigate in practice not only the exact methods of obtaining information in public administration, but should also be prepared to process analyzes and implement their results in conceptual and routine decision-making practice.
The graduate will be oriented in the organizational structure of public administration, will be oriented in the legal space of public administration and through the acquired application of modern information technologies and legal information systems will be able to fulfill all tasks in public administration.
The profile of a graduate of the Bachelor's degree in Public Administration is based on a combination of general legal knowledge with an emphasis on public law and knowledge of disciplines that can be directly used for the performance of state administration at the central, regional and municipal level, especially in the area of administration, finance and regional development management. The aim is also the adaptability of bachelor's degree graduates for the specific needs of self-government and their inclusion not only at the level of territorial self-governing units, but also when performing administrative functions in social, health, educational and other institutions, including the non-profit sector and other structures of civil society. Graduates will also find employment in public choirs of the Czech Republic. The graduate is able to be included in both teamwork and independent decision-making. He is ready to solve problems and make responsible decisions.
Follow-up Master's study program "Public Administration"
The follow-on master's course in Public Administration follows on from the bachelor's course of the same name, which has been successfully established for a long time at the Faculty of Law of the ZCU. The master's degree in the field of public administration is a response to the growing demands for the quality and professional preparation of public administration workers - among other things, in connection with the adoption of the so-called service law. It is not only about acquiring advanced knowledge and skills in the field of public administration, but perhaps above all about the ability of public administration workers to see the exercise of public power and related processes in a wider professional context – legal, social, economic, geographical, political and international. The second important impulse of the follow-up master's field is also the growing importance of the European dimension of public administration. This no longer takes place only on the territory of the given nation-state, but due to the application of the principle of subsidiarity, increasingly often also within the institutional structure of the European Union. Czech universities, which deal with the education of future civil servants, must adequately respond to this fact and prepare future public administration workers both for the influence of European legislation on their "domestic" activities and for their possible work in European institutions. Among other things, this also means increased participation not only of academic experts on European legal and administrative issues, but also cooperation with experts who are already working in European institutions at this time. The third important impulse of the master's degree in the field of public administration is, not least, the growing need for such a field on the part of a number of state administration bodies and especially local and regional self-governments, with whom the Faculty of Law of the University of West Bohemia has been cooperating for a long time and where our graduates get their job placements.
The Faculty of Law of ZČU - and especially its Department of Public Administration - is the only public institution that provides education and professional training for state and local government officials in the geographically wide area of the Pilsen Region, Karlovy Vary Region, South Bohemia Region and parts of the Central Bohemia and Ústí Regions, which are mainly adjacent with Pilsen and Karlovy Vary. At the same time, its clients are also employees of the security forces of the Czech Republic. In particular, for the preparation of management staff, but also for experts who are engaged in the preparation of analytical and conceptual materials, it is necessary that they also obtain a higher level of university education.