Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government

Head of the Department - LOPUSHYNSKYI Ivan Petrovych – academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Acmeology, Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine.

73008, Kherson-8, 24 Beryslavske Shose, academic building №3, room 210(a)

Tel: 0552–32-69-12

e-mail: magistrdu.kntu@gmail.com

Deputy Head of the Department on Teaching and Methodological Work, chief of "State Service" and "Local Self-government" sections,Magistracy Coordinator of the specialty 074 "Public Management and Administration" - TOPALOVA Elzara Khalilivna – Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department, Magistracy Coordinator of State Service of KNTU.

Deputy Head of the Department on Teaching and Methodological Work, chief of "Electronic Governance" section – DURMAN Mykola Oleksandrovych – Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

Deputy Head of the Department onOrganizational and Educational Work - DEMCHENKO Volodymyr Mykolaiovych – Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

Responsible for Scientific Work - KAZIUK Yanina Myroslavivna - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department.

Coordinator on the Implementation of Credit-modular System of Educational Process - POLOVTSEV Oleh Valentynovych - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department.

Responsible for Organization of the Traineeship - PRONINA Oksana Volodymyrivna – Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

Responsible for Distribution of Graduates – TOKHTAROVA Ilmira Memetivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

Responsible for Organization of Career Guidance - OLENKOVSKA Larysa Pavlivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department.

General information

Aim of the Department

The department of State Administration and Local Self-Government is a team of likeminded people which desire to combine efforts in order to develop state administration science, to strengthen human resource capacity of state service and local self-government service for the purpose of building and developing of Ukrainian state.

Aim of the Specialty "Public Management and Administration" is to train highly qualified and responsible personnel in a field of public management, able to process, analyze and implement state policy; creatively, effectively and efficiently perform managerial functions and provide administrative services; contribute to innovation processes in society in order to establish social justice, democracy, human rights and freedoms, sustainable development on the basis of European and world standards.

Tasks of the Department

• To meet the needs of the state in the training of highly intelligent experts in the state administration field by improving social, administrative and personal qualities of students, post-graduate students and doctoral students of the department;
• To contribute the development of a new national model of administration in the public management system;
• To create conditions which ensure full disclosure of abilities of each employee of the department and stimulate individual and collective creative thinking.

Main Areas of Activity of the Department

- Theoretical basis and practical implementation of the content and ways of training of state service Masters, able to work successfully in the state apparatus and local self-government apparatus.

- Implementation of fundamental scientific research in the field of state administration by organizing scientific laboratories under the supervision of leading scientists of the department; fulfillment of state-financed scientific programs; guidance over thesis researches for the scientific degree of candidate of science; establishment and further development of scientific relations with the Ukrainian Academy of Acmeological Sciences, with the National Academy of State Administration of the President of Ukraine, and with the Association of the Doctors of Science in State Administration.

- Training of scientific and pedagogical personnel on a specialty 25.00.02 - mechanisms of state administration;

- Strengthening of relations between the department and general public, cultural and educational institutions through the conclusion and practical implementation of agreements on joint holding of scientific meetings, conferences and seminars, traineeship of teachers; familiarization with an innovative experience in organization of learning, methodical, scientific and educational activities in higher education.

The department is actively collaborates with other educational institutions in its scientific, educational and methodical work. Among them are: National Academy of State Administration of the President of Ukraine and its regional institutions, Academy of Municipal Administration (Kyiv), Institute of State Management of Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University (Mykolaiv), Institute of State and Municipal Government of Classical Private University (Zaporizhia), Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kondratyuk University; government institutions, such as: Kherson Regional State Administration, Kherson Regional Council, Department of Civil Service of National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service in Kherson Region, Kherson Regional Center of Retraining and Professional Development of Employees of Public Authorities, Local Governments, State Enterprises, Institutions and Organizations.

LIST of institutions with which Kherson National Technical University has signed cooperation agreements in the staff training of public servants and local government officials.

№	Name of the institution	Date of signing the agreement	Term of the agreement
1	Department of State Service of the MDCSU in the Kherson region	1 November, 2008	Indefinite period
2	Kharkiv Regional Institute of Public Administration of the National Academy of Public Administration attached to the Office of the President of Ukraine	1 September, 2009	5 years (extended to 1 September, 2019)
3	Academy of Municipal Administration (Kyiv)	9 December, 2009	5 years (extended to 9 December, 2019)
4	Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University (Mykolaiv)	1 September, 2010	5 years
5	Association agreement between higher educational institutions which are implementing magistracy program on the speciality 8.15010002 "State service"	7 December, 2011	Indefinite period
6	Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas	12 July, 2012	5 years
7	Plan of collaborative activities between Interregional Department of the National Civil Service of Ukraine in Odessa, Mykolayiv and Kherson regions, Crimea and Sevastopol, Kherson Regional Center of Retraining and Professional Development of Employees of State Authorities, Local Governments, State Enterprises, Institutions and Organizations and Magistracy of State Service of KNTU in 2017.	27 January, 2017	2017
8	Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kondratyuk University	1 July, 2014	5 years
9	Academy of Customs Service (Dnipropetrovsk)	12 June, 2014	5 years
10	Chernihiv National University of Technology	4 November, 2014	5 years
11	National University of Civil Defense of Ukraine (Kharkiv)	2 December, 2014	5 years
12	Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)	30 June, 2015	5 years
13	Civic organization "Ukrainian Assembly of Doctors of Sciences in Public Administration"	16 September, 2015	5 years
14	Pomeranian University of Slupsk (Slupsk, Poland Republic)	8 October, 2015	5 years
15	Lesya Ukrainka East European National University (Lutsk)	23 November, 2015	5 years

HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

The history of the Department dates back to the 24 October, 2008 when the University Academic Council took a decision (minutes № 2) about the establishment of the Department of State Administration, Pedagogy and Psychology in the structure of Faculty of Cybernetics. This particular day is considered to be a department foundation date. The decision was approved by order №360 of the University Rector dated by 14 November, 2008.

Butenko Volodymyr Hryhorovych – a corresponding-member of National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Pedagogic Sciences, professor – was elected as first Head of Department.

The Department was reorganized into the department of State Administration and Local Self-Government that is a legal successor of the Department of State Administration, Pedagogy and Psychology by decision of the University Academic Council dated by 25August, 2011 (minutes № 2) and by order of KNTU Rector dated by 30 August, 2011.

Since 1 September, 2011 until now the Department is headed by Lopushynskyi Ivan Petrovych – full member (academician) of Ukrainian Academy of Acmeology, Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine.

The Department was transferred to newly created Faculty of International Economic Relations, Management and Business, since 1 September, 2014 in accordance with the KNTU Academic Council decision dated by 3 June, 2014 and Rector’s order № 215 dated by 16 June, 2014.

Teaching Staff

Today the department has 18 lecturers. Among them are:

Head of the Department

Lopushynskyi Ivan Petrovych - academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Acmeology, Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Pedagogic Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine.

Professors of the Department:

Bova Tetiana Viacheslavivna - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Kaziuk Yanina Myroslavivna - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Martynenko Volodymyr Fedorovych - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Professor, Professor-emerita of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Pliushch Ruslan Mykolaiovych - academician of the International Personnel Academy, Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Polovtsev Oleh Valentynovych - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Popovych Natalia Hryhorivna - Doctor of State Administration Sciences, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Topalova Elzara Khalilivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Magistracy Coordinator of State Service, Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Associate Professors of the Department:

Bykov Roman Yuriiovych - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Bondareva Lina Volodymyrivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Deputy Director of the Department of Health - Vise Chief of the Office on Organization of Medical Care to the Population of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU (in addition to other duties).

Demchenko Volodymyr Mykolaiovych - Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Durman Mykola Oleksandrovych - Candidate of Engineering Sciences, doctor of philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Olenkovska Larysa Pavlivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Popova Iryna Mykolaivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Head of the Department of Education of Henichesk District State Administration, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU (in addition to other duties).

Pronina Oksana Volodymyrivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Tokhtarova Ilmira Memetivna - Candidate of State Administration Sciences, doctor of philosophy, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Filippova Viktoriia Dmytrivna - Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Senior lecturers of the department:

Durman Olena Leonidivna - Senior Lecturer of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Yukhou Olha Anatoliivna - Senior Lecturer of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU (in addition to other duties).

Educational support staff:

Kretova Nataliia Stanislavivna - Head of the Training Laboratory of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Yukhou Olha Anatoliivna - Senior Laboratory Assistant of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Lomakina Oksana Valentynivna - Senior Laboratory Assistant of the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Disciplines which are taught at the Department

MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME

Professional training course

1. Public policy
2. Rights in the Public Management
3. Strategic Management
4. Economics and Management
5. Public Service
6. European Integration, International Public Management and Security
7. Public Communication and Business Language in Public Management
8. Professional Foreign Language in Public Management

Profile 1 «State service»

1. Methodology of a Systematic Approach to Scientific Research
2. History of State Service
3. Activity Arrangement of State Officials
4. Psychology of Management
5. Fundamentals of Sociolinguistics
6. Territorial Organization of Power in Ukraine
7. Examination of Draft Laws and Normative Legal Acts
8. GR-Management
9. Region's Economy
10. Corporate Culture of Civil Servant
11. Budgetary Policy at the Local Level
12. Human Resource Management
13. Church-state Relations

Profile 2 «Electronic administration»

1. Methodology of System-defined Approach
2. The History of State Service
3. Information and Communication Systems Security
4. Electronic Governance in the Information Society
5. Bases of Information Technologies
6. Architecture and Information and Technological Infrastructure of the Electronic Government
7. Information Systems and Technologies of Provision of Administrative Services
8. Prediction and Planning in Public Management
9. Modern Internet Technologies
10. Electronic Documentation Workflow in Local Public Entities
11. Automation of Municipal and State Authorities Work
12. Support System of Decision-making in E-governance
13. Project Management in Local Public Entities

Profile 3«Local self-government»

1. Methodology of System-defined Approach
2. History of State Service
3. Service in Bodies of Local Self-government
4. Electoral System at the Local Government Level
5. Resource Potential of Communities
6. Local Self-government in Ukraine and Abroad
7. Institutional and Legislative Regulation of Integrating a Human Settlements
8. Local Finances
9. Management of Projects and Programs
10. Regional Economy
11. Management of Community Property
12. Management of Communities Development
13. Marketing and Branding of the Territories

BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMME

Ukrainian Language (in the professional direction)

• History and Culture of Ukraine
• Foreign Language
• Philosophy
• Safety of Vital Activity
• Safety of Vital Activity (1,5 credits)
• The Basics of Occupational Safety (1,5 cr.)
• Political Science
• Higher and Applied Mathematics
• Statistics
• Elementary Economics
• Introduction to Profession
• Information and Communication Technologies in Public Management, including:
• Computer Technologies in a Management Activity (3 cr.)
• Information Resources in Public Management (3 cr.)
• European Integration and Policy of International Cooperation
• Public Management and Administration, including:
• Management in Public Governance (6,5 cr.)
• including test on discipline "Management in Public Governance "
• Theory and Practice of Managerial Decision-making. (4,0 cr.)
• Investment Management (3,0 cr.)
• Project Management in Public Governance (4,0 cr.)
• Crisis Management (4,0 cr.)
• Leadership and Team Management (4,0 cr.)
• The System Analysis in Management (3,0 cr.)
• Modern Language Communication in Public Management (3,0 cr.)
• The low in public management, including:
• Constitutional Law (2 cr.)
• Administrative Law (2,0 cr.)
• Economic Law (3,0 cr.)
• Labor Law (2,0 cr.)
• Public Finance, including
• Public Finances (4 cr.)
• Regional and Local Finance (4 cr.)
• Territorial Organization of the Government
• Theory and Practice of Public Management
• including test on discipline "Theory and Practice of Public Management"
• Integration Processes in and Communications in Public Management
• Basic Principles of the State Policy
• Analysis and Assessment of State Policy
• Historiosophy of Public Administration
• Public Enforcement Ethics
• Basic Principles of Scientific Research in Public Management
• Public Administration
• incldg.test on disciplines "Public Administration", "Local Self-government", "The Electronic Government"
• Local Self-government
• Electronic Control
• Basic Principles of the Theory of Public Management
• Legal and Historical Basic Principles and Integration Processes in the EU
• Parliamentarism and Parliamentary Activities
• including test on disciplines "Parliamentarism and Parliamentary Activities"
• The Electoral Systems and Political Technologies
• Psychology of Business Communication and Public Speaking.
• Block 1 - Public Management
• State and Confessional Relations
• Systems and Technologies of Electronic Workflow
• Management of Communities Development
• Global Management
• Personnel Policy
• Audit of a Management Activity
• Information Policy
• Modeling of Management Decisions in Specific Conditions
• Strategic Planning of Public Authority
• incldg. test on discipline ” Strategic Planning in System of the Public Authority”
• Block 2 - Regional and Local Management
• Social Infrastructure and Providing Regional Communications
• Technologies of E-business
• Marketing and Branding of the Territories
• Management in the Information Environment of Electronic Control
• Modeling of Management Decisions in Specific Conditions
• Management of Community Property
• Resource Potential Local Authorities
• International Economic Integration
• Management of Local and Regional Programs
• incldg. test on discipline "Management of Local and Regional Programs"

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The main priority of the Lecturers research work at the Department is:

• Adaptation mechanisms of public regulation system in Ukraine in accordance with European Union standards (state registration number 0115U000862 dated by 23.03.2015)
• Improving the mechanisms of public administration by an educational industry: innovative platform of formation of information and communication environment in higher educational institution (state registration number 0114U001001 dated by 24.12.2013)
• Institutional bases of forming of the public regulatory policy on the electronic control principles (state registration number 0113U007834 dated by 27.11.2013)

Research and Development Laboratories within the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government was established:

- Concerning the issues of State Administration and Local Self-Government (Lopushynskyi I.P.);

The postgraduate training program in specialty 25.00.02 – State Administration mechanisms was opened since 2010-2011 academic year within the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government. By MES order № 592 dated by 17.05.2012, KNTU was granted the privilege to introduce a postgraduate course of this specialty on an ongoing basis.

The doctoral degree program in the specialty 25.00.02 – State Administration mechanisms on an ongoing basis was founded according to the order №511 of 06.05.2015 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine «On the decision adoption of the Ministry review panel about the post-graduate course and doctoral degree activities dated by 28 April, 2015» within the Department of State Administration and Local Self-Government of KNTU.

Since 2015-2016 academic year in the Kherson National Technical University according to the order № 1023 of 7 October, 2015 of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine «On certification board decision adoption of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine and Science dated by 29 September, 2015» on an ongoing basis the postgraduate training program in the specialty 25.00.04 – Local Self-Government was founded.

The collection of Scientific Works «Current problems of Public Administration, psychology and pedagogy» was registered on 4 June, 2009 by the Head department of Justice in the Kherson region on number ХС № 446/97. By order of the Justice Minister of Ukraine of 17.12.2010. the collection was re-registered as the journal edition (the certificate КВ №17297-6067 ПР of 17.12.2010).

In accordance with the KNTU Academic Council decision of 10 May, 2012 (minutes №6) and order of the rector dated 16 June, 2012, № 224 was founded the electronic scientific specialized publication «Theory and Practice of State Administration and Local Self-government». By the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine of 29 December, 2014 №1528 the edition is registered in the list of scientific professional publications of Ukraine.

TEACHING AND METHODOLOGICAL WORK

Teaching and methodological work is aimed at constant improvement of educational process on Master's Degree Program in state service.

For this purpose the systematic action on the production of textbooks, teaching and methodological books and methodical developments is being held.

There is a list of basic methodological books and textbooks on disciplines that are taught at the department:

1. Lopushynskyi I.P., Durman M.O., Topalova E.Kh. Master's thesis on public service: requirements for the presentation and registration: methodological manual. – Kherson: KNTU, 2009. – 36 p.
2. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh., Durman M.O. Methodological recommendations for preparing a coursepepper on discipline «Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2009. – 27 p.
3. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh., Durman M.O. Methodological recommendations for preparinga course pepper on discipline «Public management». – Kherson: KNTU, 2009. – 25 p.
4. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh., Yatsenko A.A. Internship program forprofessors 8.150101«Public service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2010. – 80 p.
5. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. Conversation program ofentrance oneducational and professional level “Master” on the specialty 8.15010002«Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2012. – 9 p.
6. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. The program of comprehensive state examination for listeners of educational and qualification level – master on discipline 8.15010002«Civil service» branch of knowledge 1501 –«State administration». – Kherson: KNTU, 2012. – 17 p.
7. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. Interview program to enter on educational and professional level “Master” on the specialty 8.15010002«Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2013. – 16 p.
8. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. Interview program to enter on educational and professional level “Master”on thespecialty 8.15010011«E-governance». – Kherson: KNTU, 2013. – 16 p.
9. Lopushynskyi I.P., Polovtsev O.V. and others. The program of comprehensive state examination in the specialty of 8.15010002«Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2014. – 18 p.
10. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. Interview program to enter on educational and professional level “Master” on the specialty 8.15010002«Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2014. – 16 p.
11. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh. Internship by profession program for the specialty 8.15010002 «Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2014. – 16 p.
12. Lopushynskyi I.P., Durman M.O. Programof professionaltesting to enter on educational and professional level «Master» onthe specialty 8.15010011«E-governance». – Kherson: KNTU, 2014. – 12 p.
13. Polovtsev O.V., Kaziuk Ya.M. Financial system of regions: problems and prospects: scientific publication. – M.: Academy of municipal authority, 2014. – 378 p.
14. Lopushynskyi I.P., Bova T.V., Topalova E.Kh. Interview program to enter thestudy to obtain a «Master» level on the specialty 8.15010002«Civil service». – Kherson: KNTU, 2015. – 17 p.
15. Lopushynskyi I.P., Lytvynenko V.I., Durman M.O.The Programof professionaltesting to obtain «Master» level on the specialty 8.15010011«E-governance». – Kherson: KNTU, 2015. – 10 p.
16. Lopushynskyi I.P. Pliushch R.M., Olenkovska L.P. The program of entrance test on discipline«A basis of local government» for entrance in order to obtain a Master's degree on the specialty 8.15010009«Local self-government». – Kherson: KNTU, 2015. – 12 p.
17. Lopushynskyi I.P., Polovtsev O.V., Topalova E.Kh., Kaziuk Ya.M., Pronina O.V., Tokhtarova I.M., Durman M.O. The program of comprehensive state examination on the specialty 8.15010002«Civil service»(educational and professional «Master» degree/ I.P. Lopushynskyi and others. – Kherson: KNTU, 2016. – 18 p.
18. Lopushynskyi I.P., Polovtsev O.V., Topalova E.Kh .The program of entrance test on post-graduate course on the specialty 074 «Public management and administration». – Kherson: KNTU, 2016. – 13 p.
19. Lopushynskyi I.P., Polovtsev O.V., Topalova E.Kh. The program of additional entrance test on post-graduate course on the specialty 074 «Public management and administration». – Kherson: KNTU, 2016. – 13 p.
20. Lopushynskyi I.P., Topalova E.Kh., Durman M.O. Test tasks of an additional (cross) entrance examination of magistracy on the specialty 074 «Public management and administration». – KNTU: 2016. – 11 p.

Contact information

Address: 73008, Kherson, 24 Beryslavske Shose, academic building № 3, r. 210(a)

Tel.: 0552-36-69-12

Е-mail: magistrdu.kntu@gmail.com.