ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Course Code: AP I 9 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Administrative Sciences • Field of study: Public Administration
Type of course: Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction: English
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Mihaela Miruna Tudorașcu
Seminar tutor: Mihaela Miruna Tudorașcu
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class
Number of teaching hours per semester: 56
Number of teaching hours per week: 4
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 4

Course aims:

• Knowing, understanding and a correct using of fundamental ideas concerning concepts specific to Ethics and Deontology of Public Function.
• Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in Ethics and Deontology of Public Function as well as in connected domains.
-• Integration in a coherent structure of main theorizations and value landmarks recognised in Ethics and Deontology of Public Function as well as in connected domains.

Course Entry Requirements:

Introduction to Ethics and Deontology of Public Function; Specific issues of Ethics and Deonthology of Public Function

Course contents:

1. The notion of Public Function 2. The notion of Public Servant 3. Classification of public functions and public servants in Romania 4. The notion of Ethic. 5. Conditions for access to public office 6. Method of recruitment into public office 7. Career of public servants 8. Changing the legal relationship of public office 9. Suspension of legal relationship of public office 10. Termination of service of civil servants 11. The legal liability of the civil servant 12. Disciplinary liability and contravention of the civil servant 13. Civil and criminal liability of public servants 14. Revision

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on the Ethics and Deontology of Public Function; • establishing general aspects in connection with the Ethics and Deontology of Public Function; • the concrete issues in connection with the general views of Ethics and Deontology of Public Function.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

• Miruna Tudorascu, Deontology of Public Function, Alba Iulia, Didactical Series, 2010.
• Lucretia Dogaru, Deontology of Public Function, for Student use, Târgu-Mures, Petru Maior University, 2006.
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