| CODE | LIA5019 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Administrative History and Governance Structures | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Library Information and Archive Sciences | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit introduces participants to the changing patterns of governance in Malta spanning a period of seven centuries. The scope is not to map the historical events or the debate surrounding those happenings but to study the mechanics of government. For each historical period the main organizational units of government will be studied from the perspective of legal, administrative and logistical perspectives. This process should empower participants to understand the record creating bodies for the phases under study. For practicality purposes Malta's administrative history will be subdivided into 15th - 18th century (Professor William Zammit) and 19th century to current days (Dr Charles Farrugia). Study-Unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit is to look at Malta's administrative history from a records-creating dimension. Malta's history has been rather extensively studied from a historical, anthropological or public administration dimension. The approach for this study-unit will be inspired by the facts and analysis carried out within the other professions, but each entity and administrative unit of government studied will be looked at from a legal, structural and historical perspective and assessed as a record creating agency. Thus, this study-unit aims to bridge the gap between the historian, the public administrator and the archivist and prepare future archivists with a sound analytical skill of the development of Malta's public administration machinery over time. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Distinguish between the different administrative bodies of government and how these functioned over the years; - Interpret the extent to which such structures impacted on decision making on a political, economic and broadly cultural levels; - Recognize the administrative structures and how they evolved over the years; - Appreciate the levels of dependency and interplay between central and devolved authorities; - Apply the value of good records management in governance structures. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Research content for the writing of administrative histories of governing bodies; - Build connections between finding aides spanning different repositories; - Carry out the mapping of organigrams for historical organisations. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Dalli, C. (2006). Malta: The Medieval Millenium. Malta: Midsea Books. - Farrugia, C. (Ed.). Guardians of Memory: essays in remembrance of Hella Jean Bartolo Winston. Malta: National Archives. - Fiorini, S. (Ed.). Documentary Sources of Maltese History (1996-). - Freller, T. (2010). Malta: The Order of St John. Malta: Midsea Books. - Pirotta, G.A. (1996). The Maltese Public Service 1800-1940: The administrative politics of a Micro-State. Malta: Minerva Publications. - Pirotta, G.A. (2006). Malta’s Parliament – an official history. Malta: Midsea Books. - Pirotta, G.A. & Warrington, E. (2001). Guardian of the Public Purse – A history of state audit in Malta 1800-2000. Malta: National Audit Office. - Staines, P. (2008). Essays on Governing Malta 1800-1813. Malta: PEG. - Staines, P. (2015). Essays on Governing Malta 1813-1835. Malta: PEG. - Staines, P. (2019). Essays on Governing Malta 1835-1851. Malta: BDL. Supplementary Readings: - Bezzina, J. (2005). Gozo’s Government: the autonomy of an island through history. Gozo: Local Councils Association. - Vassallo, M.T. (Ed.). (2012). Public Life in Malta: Essays on governance, politics and public affairs in the EU’s smallest member state. Malta: University of Malta. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Seminar | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charles Farrugia William Zammit |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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