NSP COURSE STREAMS
2. NSP is offered in two streams: NSP and NSP Masters.
a. NSP. NSP is the baseline Professional Military Education (PME) programme and satisfies Developmental Period 4 (DP4) requirements for CF participants. Students in this stream will be required to complete eight core courses and a series of exer-cises.
b. NSP Masters. NSP Masters completes DP4 requirements for CF participants and grants credits towards an RMCC Master of Public Administration (MPA). Stu-dents in this stream will be required to complete the eight NSP core courses, exer-cises, an economics course, and a directed research project (DRP).
MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
3. Those wishing to participate in the NSP Masters must seek admission to the Royal Milita-ry College Masters of Public Administration (MPA) degree programme. Specifics for admission to this programme are available on the graduate calendar of RMCC’s website, shown below. CFC’s academic staff will assist in the application process.
4. The MPA is an interdisciplinary academic degree. The programme collaborates closely with other RMCC graduate programmes and draws significantly on material and staff of the Departments of Business Administration, Political Science and Economics, Military Psychology and Leadership, and increasingly on science and engineering subjects. Military and civilian indi-viduals engaged or interested in the security environment, as it is and is emerging, in Canada and internationally, including traditional defence issues, will find the programme relevant and useful.
5. Candidates for the MPA will be admitted under the general regulations of RMCC. In general, candidates to the MPA programme must have completed an Honours (four-year) Bacca-laureate degree with a minimum 70% (B-) average in their graduating year. Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered for acceptance with provisional or probationary status.
6. Additional coursework to earn the MPA includes the following:
a. MBA 521 — Economics. This course is divided into two distinct parts — microe-conomics and macroeconomics. The portion of the course on microeconomics is intended to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of individual economic agents, including consumers, business firms, public sector agencies, workers and investors. The general approach is to examine the formulation of economic mod-els of consumer behaviour and production. The macroeconomic portion of the course will examine national issues and interrelationships in the economy. The
debates concerning fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies will also be exam-ined, and foreign economies will be investigated.
b. PR 500 — Directed Research Project. The aim of the Individual Research Project is to develop the participants' ability to think critically and communicate effec-tively in writing. Individuals accomplish this by preparing a properly documented, persuasive essay on a strategic level security or defence related topic over the course of their year at the College. Students pursuing the MPA will be required to produce a paper of 50 to 100 pages in length. The Research Project is worth two graduate/PME credits.
REQUIREMENTS FOR NSP PARTICIPANTS
7. All students taking the NSP will complete courses in accordance with the attachments to this annex.
8. To seek admission to the Masters programme, students must provide the CFC Registrar with the following:
a. academic transcripts;
b. a memorandum indicating:
(1) interest to pursue the degree programme;
(2) information of currently held degrees (type of degree, length of undergrad-uate degree (three or four years), date received); and
(3) other academic courses completed since the last degree.
9. Academic references are required as part of any application to Graduate Studies at RMCC. The RMCC application form states, “All candidates must provide names, titles and phone num-bers of three persons who have knowledge of your academic ability to serve as referees. Candi-dates for … MPA … must also have asked the referees to submit a letter of reference in support of the application.”
10. Additional information on graduate studies at RMCC is located at:
English: http://www.rmc.ca/aca/ac-pe/index-eng.asp
Français: http://www.rmcc-cmrc.forces.gc.ca/aca/ac-pe/index-fra.asp
Annexes:
Annex A NSP Curriculum Map
Annex B NSP Core Course Scheduling