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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Introduction to the elements of policy and program analysis for public program managers. Normative criteria for program evaluation; systematic strategies for assessing and measuring the effects of program elements and policy changes; and logic and limitations. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: PUAD-602.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate The use of analytical techniques by managers to resolve issues involving the creation or implementation of public policies. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This gateway course for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program introduces students to the scope, methods, issues, and evolution of policy studies. Students learn and apply various frameworks for approaching the enterprise of policy analysis, become familiar with the logic and applicability of analytical techniques, and gain an appreciation for the ethical issue, values, and context of government policy. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Applies basic normative and positive theories of public policy learned in PUAD-606 to specific policy areas, including social welfare and regulatory policies. Includes environmental policy, education, welfare, health care, EEO and discrimination, transportation, cable TV, and drug policy, depending on student interests. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: PUAD-606.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An examination of governmental administrative systems in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa. The focus is on these institutions as subsystems of national and international economic and political systems. The emphasis is on the comparative analysis of administration in capitalist industrialized nations, socialist nations, and the Third World. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. The transformation of law and public policy into operational activities and its administrative challenges. Topics offered include the new public management; privatization and contracting out; performance management; cross-cultural administration; the management of "wicked" public policies; and traditional and non-conventional tools for delivering public services. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This capstone course tests students' abilities to integrate, synthesize, and apply Master of Public Administration (MPA) course work to significant public management challenges. Students complete a capstone project and write an essay reflecting on the relationship between the MPA program and their professional development. Prerequisite: completion of all MPA core courses. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate The use of information technology in public service organizations. Includes basic concepts and terminology, government and non-profit applications, the systems approach to organizational processes, database concepts, web-engineering, decision support, user involvement, methodologies for developing operating systems, and future trends. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This gateway course for the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program introduces students to the evolution of public administration as a profession, discipline, and career. Emphasized are the managerial, political, legal and constitutional, ethical, informational, and technical contexts of public administration, as well as the challenges these afford public administrators confronting contemporary issues. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Organizational and administrative problems of program management in an interdependent world. The administration of government programs in developing countries and the management of international organizations. The effects of development programs and the consequences of alternative management strategies. Usually offered every fall
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