Graduate Courses Offered in Public Administration (PUAD)
6010.
Introduction to Public Administration (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Examines the constitutional, institutional, political, and social environment
in which public administration occurs and introduces students to the important
theories, concepts, functions, and issues in the discipline of public administration.
6030. Government Organization
and Administration (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
Surveys major theoretical, conceptual, and ethical issues in understanding
the behavior of public organizations. Compares the behavior of Public and
Private organizations and introduces strategies for responding to problems
in leadership, motivation, structure, decision making, communication, and
organizational change.
6040. Public and Nonprofit
Budgeting (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
An examination of the process and techniques of public and nonprofit sector
budgeting. Includes formulation, authorization, appropriation, and execution
stages.
6050. Human Resource Administration
in the Public Sector (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Course content examines the nature of employment/merit systems in the context
of the public sector. Focus is on the value/ethical dimensions of the personnel
field and on selected personnel processes such as job analysis, job evaluation,
recruitment, and selection.
6060. Applied Research and
Program Evaluation (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
The application of scientific research methods to administrative problems,
including practical methods of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data.
Content will include theory and basic techniques underlying quantitative
and qualitative analysis of public programs.
6070. Public Administration
and Policy Formulation (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
The process of policy making both within an agency and within the larger
context of the total government process, emphasizing policy and program
planning, policy implementation, and the value system of administrators.
6080. Seminar in Quantitative
Decision Making (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
A review of quantitative decision-making techniques and procedures
currently in use in public agencies. Includes such approaches as benefit-cost
analysis, decision analysis, and linear programming.
6130. Seminar in State and
Local Government (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
A systematic examination of function, problems, and
issues within the political and constitutional framework of selected areas
of state and local government.
6140. Issues in Public Administration
(3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Examination and analysis of various public programs of concern to the public
administrator: housing, health, poverty, welfare, employment, urban renewal,
and related political and social factors influencing policy formulation
and implementation.
Reviews current practices, theory, and research pertinent to maintaining
ecological balance while providing for the immediate needs of individuals
and their social institutions; introduces the concepts of environmental
management. This course may be taught concurrently with POLS 4170.
6180. Science, Technology,
and Public Policy (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
A study of the impact of science and technology on social, political, and
economic systems, and of governmental decision making for science and technology.
Extends student's quantitative decision-making skills developed in
PUAD 6080.
6220. Problems in Policy Formulation
and Decision Making (3). Pr.: graduate standing,
PUAD 6070.
Application of small group policy formulation and decision-making techniques
and individual decision-making techniques to selected policy areas such
as military-civilian policy, foreign policy, and energy policy.
Includes the use of regulations, statutes, economic incentives, education,
coercion, and other devices to implement policies within one level of government
and among two or more levels.
6250. Topics in Data Collection
(3). Pr.: graduate standing, PUAD 6060.
An in-depth examination of the techniques and issues related to one
or more data gathering techniques such as survey research methods, elite
and specialized interviewing, content analysis, and aggregate data collection.
Will include computer applications where appropriate. May be taken
more than once.
6260. Topics in Data Analysis
(3). Pr.: graduate standing, PUAD 6060.
An in-depth examination of one or more data analysis techniques and
their applications in policy analysis. Topics may include time series
analysis, regression, causal modeling, and other approaches. Computer
applications will be included. May be taken more than once.
6310. Public Administration
in State and Metropolitan Government (3). Pr.:
graduate standing.
Focuses on the problems of identification, analysis, decision-making, implementation,
and evaluation of government programs and services as they apply to state
and local governments.
6410. Public Employee Management
for Labor Relations (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Seminar topics include collective bargaining and public employee unionism
as well as topical problems of current interest.
Course begins with a general introduction to public personnel processes
and proceeds to explore the nature of public sector affirmative action
and its impact on recruitment and selection, the nature and methodologies
of the written testing processes used in civil service systems., and developments
in the nature of performance appraisal systems.
6710. Administration of Nonprofit
Organizations (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
An introduction to management issues in the nonprofit sector. Topics covered
include history and structure of nonprofits, total quality management applications,
strategic planning, and the role of a board of directors.
6720. Fund Raising and Grantsmanship
for Nonprofit Organizations (3). Pr.: graduate
standing.
Explores funding sources and writing grant proposals. As part of this course,
students will be expected to write at least one actual grant proposal.
6730. Marketing for Nonprofit
Organizations (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Introduces students to the role of marketing in nonprofit organizations
as the key to meeting the needs of target clients, patrons, or customers.
6810. Introduction to Health
Care Administration (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
Survey of the administrative issues involved in the delivery of health
care services.
6820. Hospital Management
and Process (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
Examination of management practices in institutional health care.
6830. Seminar in Health Care
Policy and Administration (3). Pr.: graduate
standing.
In-depth examination of contemporary problems and issues in the delivery
of health care.
6840. Legal Aspects of Health
Care (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
An examination of the legal principles covering sources
of law, business, enterprises, government regulations, general health law,
and managed care.
6924.
Internship in Public Administration (3). Pr.: graduate standing.
The Public Administration Internship was created
to serve the needs of pre-service students in gaining practical knowledge
of some of the concepts and theories taught in class. Students are
allowed to take a maximum of 6 hours internship credit.
6962. Directed Readings in
Public Administration (3).
Pr.: graduate standing.
Credit to be arranged and consent of instructor required for enrollment.
6972. Special Problems in
Public Administration (1-6).
Pr.: graduate standing.
Advanced research in specific areas of public administration (as arranged).
Students are eligible to register for the comprehensive if they meet the
following criteria:
Formal admission to the graduate program ("GR" entry).
Completion (with recorded grades, not "I's") of 33 hours of degree courses,
including all core courses.
A 3.0 graduate GPA (based on a 4.0 scale).
Should a student fail the examination, the exam may be retaken one time.
That retake can be taken no earlier than the next semester's scheduled
exam date. Students retake only the section(s) failed.
Ph.D. Courses:
7000. Seminar in Public Administration
(3). Pr.: doctoral standing, PUAD 6010.
A critical survey of U.S. scholarship in public administration.
7020. Seminar in Public Policy
(3). Pr.: doctoral standing, PUAD 6070.
Advanced study of the nature of public policy development and implementation.
7040. Public Budgeting (3).
Pr.: doctoral standing.
Comprehensive theoretical underpinning for research in the filed of public
budgeting. Focuses on models associated with descriptive and prescriptive
budgeting research.
7060. Public Policy Analysis
and Research (3). Pr.: doctoral standing, PUAD 6060, PUAD 6080.
An examination of advanced policy analysis and research methodology
and of the relationship between evaluation and quantitative analysis and
policy formulation and implementation.
7070. Human Resource Management
(3). Pr.: doctoral standing.
Introduces the student to advanced concepts in the field of human resource
management. Emphasis will be on the wide range of human resource
concerns revolving around the use of a merit system in the public sector.
7080. Public Organization
Theory (3). Pr.: doctoral standing, PUAD 6030.
Analysis of the research literature on administrative and organization
theory and behavior, especially as it applies to the problems and opportunities
of public management.
