COURSE SYLLABUS
SAA076: Methodologies and
Techniques of Project Management I
ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/2012
DEGREE: International University Master in
Peace, Conflict and Development Studies
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
Department and area of knowledge: IUDESP (Interuniversity Institute of Social
Development and Peace)
Type (Basic Training, Compulsory, Optional, Work Placement, End-of-Degree Project):
Compulsory
Course (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th): 2nd year
Semester (1st, 2nd, annual): 2nd semester
Credits: 3
Language(s) of instruction: English
Main Lecturer: Dr. Irene Comins Mingol
Class Schedule: See the LLEU guide (from 9.30 a.m. to 2 p.m., from Monday to Friday)
2. INTRODUCTION
(Brief description of the subject within the Degree syllabus)
The subject Methodology and Techniques of Project Management I provides essential
training to the students who take the professional itinerary of the Master. In this course
students will learn the basic competences on the functioning and elaboration of projects.
3. RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
No specific previous knowledge is required to take this course.
4. COMPETENCES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
Generic and specific competences
Learning outcomes
(This section will be automatically completed
with information from the report on the Verifica
UJI programme)
(This section will be automatically completed
with information from the report on the Verifica
UJI programme)
1. General aims
1.1. To spread the ideas of peace, conflicts,
humanitarian
aid
and
development
cooperation as proposed by UNESCO, so
that
the
future
professionals
and
researchers include these ideas entirely in
their working fields, both as part of their
objectives as well as of their processes
(multidisciplinary
and
interdisciplinary
approaches).
1. General outcomes
1.1. To be able to spread the ideas of
peace, conflicts, humanitarian aid and
development cooperation as proposed by
UNESCO, so that the future professionals
and researchers include these ideas entirely
in their working fields, both as part of their
objectives as well as of their processes
(multidisciplinary
and
interdisciplinary
approaches).
1.2. To create an environment of study and
critical research and of academic excellence
according to the statutes of University
Jaume I and the convergence process of
European Higher Education Area within the
Bologna Framework.
1.2. To be able tocreate an environment of
study and critical research and of academic
excellence according to the statutes of
University Jaume I and the convergence
process of European Higher Education Area
within the Bologna Framework.
1.4. To develop individual, social and
professional skills to make peace (peaces)
and to transform conflicts by peaceful
means.
1.4. To be able to develop individual, social
and professional skills to make peace
(peaces) and to transform conflicts by
peaceful means.
1.6. To move forward in the construction of
cultures for peace by means of intense
academic and professional work. This work
would be developed both in the seminar
rooms of the Master of Arts as well as by the
graduates in the program. Once they join
their working places in their native countries,
their point of view would be critical,
intercultural, gender based, with a
perspective of conflict transformation and
alternative diplomacy.
1.6. To be able to move forward in the
construction of cultures for peace by means
of intense academic and professional work.
This work would be developed both in the
seminar rooms of the Master of Arts as well
as by the graduates in the program. Once
they join their working places in their native
countries, their point of view would be
critical, intercultural, gender based, with a
perspective of conflict transformation and
alternative diplomacy.
1.7. To consolidate the necessary
knowledge, tools and attitudes to establish
working networks in order to implement
world policies based on sustainable
development, cooperative responsibility and
the environmental security.
1.7. To be able to consolidate the necessary
knowledge, tools and attitudes to establish
working networks in order to implement
world policies based on sustainable
development, cooperative responsibility and
the environmental security.
2. Knowledge outcomes
2. Knowledge aims
2.1. To know and recognize the main 2.1. To be able to know and recognize the
international schools of Peace Research main international schools of Peace
from
a
historical
and
from a historical and methodological Research
methodological perspective.
perspective.
2.2. To be able to know the main
schools
specializing
in
2.2. To know the main international schools international
specializing in resolution, management and resolution, management and transformation
transformation of conflicts by peaceful of conflicts by peaceful means, ranging from
means, ranging from the interpersonal to the the interpersonal to the spheres of state and
global governance.
spheres of state and global governance.
2.9. To know the policies of the Generalitat
Valenciana, the Spanish Government, the
European
Union,
the
International
Organizations and other NGOs in the areas
of humanitarian aid and development
cooperation.
2.9. To be bale to know the policies of the
Generalitat
Valenciana,
the
Spanish
Government, the European Union, the
International Organizations and other NGOs
in the areas of humanitarian aid and
development cooperation.
3. Competence aims
3.3. To build capacity for the analysis of
main measuring instruments for the global
situation, with special emphasis on those
territories or populations characterized by
poverty, marginalization and exclusion.
3. Competence outcomes
3.3. To be able to build capacity for the
analysis of main measuring instruments for
the global situation, with special emphasis
on
those
territories
or
populations
characterized by poverty, marginalization
and exclusion.
3.4. To develop skills for the planning,
execution and evaluation of development 3.4. To be able to develop skills for the
and co-development projects (North-South, planning, execution and evaluation of
development and co-development projects
South-South and South-North).
(North-South, South-South and SouthNorth).
4. Skill aims
4.2. To prepare for the use of web pages
with information related to international 4. Skill outcomes
organizations, to European, African and 4.2. To be able to prepare for the use of web
with
information
related
to
American Human Rights' Charters, to the pages
programs of the different agencies working international organizations, to European,
in the field of development cooperation, to African and American Human Rights'
the main NGOs working for peace and Charters, to the programs of the different
development, to the strategies of regional agencies working in the field of development
associations like the European Union, the cooperation, to the main NGOs working for
African Union, the Organization of American peace and development, to the strategies of
regional associations like the European
States, and others.
Union, the African Union, the Organization
4.3. To exercise the use of bibliographic of American States, and others.
databases related to peace, development
cooperation and study of conflicts, as well 4.3. To be able to exercise the use of
as the use of the main international journals bibliographic databases related to peace,
working on the issue, most part of which we development cooperation and study of
can be consulted in the library of this conflicts, as well as the use of the main
University and in the Documentation Center international journals working on the issue,
of the Bancaja International Center for most part of which we can be consulted in
the library of this University and in the
Peace and Development (CIBPD).
Documentation Center of the Bancaja
4.4. To train in basic methodologies of International Center for Peace and
Humanitarian Aid, in combination with those Development (CIBPD).
NGOs which critically consider this kind of
aid as an intermediate stage towards a 4.4. To be able to train in basic
methodologies of Humanitarian Aid, in
longer-term development.
combination with those NGOs which
4.8. To train in the analysis of the critically consider this kind of aid as an
functioning of International Organizations, intermediate stage towards a longer-term
such as the UN and its agencies, other development.
NGOs, and NGOs on development issues,
by means of simulation exercises and taking 4.8. To be able to train in the analysis of the
benefit of the capacities of many students functioning of International Organizations,
who work or have worked in such such as the UN and its agencies, other
NGOs, and NGOs on development issues,
institutions.
4.10. To prepare for the development and
co-development projects following the
criteria of logical framework, and the
development cooperation policies of the
Generalitat
Valenciana,
the
Spanish
Government, the European Union and other
international institutions and NGOs.
by means of simulation exercises and taking
benefit of the capacities of many students
who work or have worked in such
institutions.
4.10. To be able to prepare for the
development and co-development projects
following the criteria of logical framework,
and the development cooperation policies of
4.11.
To
exercise
the
multilingual the Generalitat Valenciana, the Spanish
communication, due to the multilingual origin Government, the European Union and other
of the participating students with special international institutions and NGOs.
emphasis on English, Spanish and
Valencian, which are the employed 4.11. To be able to exercise the multilingual
languages of the program at the University communication, due to the multilingual origin
Jaume I.
of the participating students with special
emphasis on English, Spanish and
Valencian, which are the employed
languages of the program at the University
Jaume I.
5. CONTENTS
Course descriptors (This section will be automatically completed with information from the
report on the Verifica UJI programme)
Data collection techniques. Field work. Internships in NGOs, companies and international
organizations. Management of the Third Sector organizations. Diagnosis and proposal
design. Application to the specific practices of the NGOs or institution where the student is
going to develop the activity.
6. UNITS
(State titles of units, sections and, where appropriate, subsections)
1. Introduction to the Project Cycle, Results-Based Management and the use of the
Logical Framework Approach to project design.
2. Diagnostic tools: Stakeholder’s analysis and Problem analysis;
3. Project Identification tools: analysis of objectives and analysis of alternatives.
4. Logical Framework Matrix: objectives and activities, indicators, means of verification,
assumptions.
5. Project costing
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
7.1 Basic bibliography
EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2005): ECHO Manual, Project Cycle Management.
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (1997): Evaluation: A Management Tool for
Improving Project Performance, Washington, D.C.
WORLD BANK (2000): The LogFrame Handbook, Washington, D.C., pages 37-46, 55-61.
CIDA (2000): RBM Handbook on Developing Results Chains
7.2 Complementary bibliography
CIDA (2007): Results Based Management 101 series, Ottawa
NORAD (1999): Logical Framework Approach LFA: handbook for objectives-oriented
planning, Norway
NORAD (2008): Results Management in Norwegian Development Cooperation. A practical
guide, Norway
7.3 Websites
7.4 Other resources
8. TEACHING METHODOLOGY
(State the methodology to be applied according to the philosophy of the European Higher
Education Area)
The teaching methodology of this subject will be mainly practical. Each session will include
a theoretical explanation of the contents by the lecturer, but all the topics discussed in
class will be further analyzed in a practical way by the students, who will identify the
relation of the course contents with their future internship.
9. ACTIVITY PLANNING
Summary (The number of hours required for each activity are indicated in the Verifica UJI
programme and must be fulfilled. Class hours should be 30-40% of the total hours of work expected
for each subject, while non-class hours should take 60-70% of the time)
Activities
Theory sessions
Practical sessions (problems)
Practical sessions (laboratory)
Seminars
Workshops
Small group tutorials
Assessment
Individual work
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TOTAL HOURS (no. of credits x 25)
Class hours
8
12
Non-class hours
2,5
52,5
75
10. LEARNING ASSESSMENT
10.1 Assessment type (Copy the assessment types shown in
the Verifica UJI programme)
Percentage of final grade
(Copy the percentages shown
in the Verifica UJI programme)
Attendance and participation
60%
Course paper
40%
10.2 Assessment Criteria:
A) Indicate the minimum grades required in order to pass the course.
B) Indicate the strictly necessary activities in order to pass the course.
A) The minimum grade required to pass the subject is 5.
B) In the first session, the submission of the academic paper is compulsory in order to be
graded for the subject. In the second session, it will be necessary to repeat the academic
paper that, in this case, will account for the 100% of the final grade.
11. OTHER INFORMATION
Total or partial forms of plagiarism in the course paper, will automatically imply to fail the
subject.