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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores the theories and styles of leadership. Students become familiar with and work towards the incorporation of the traits and habits of effective leaders. Reviews the necessary qualities required and the challenges and ethical dilemmas which are facing leaders in the public sector today.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how managers guide their organization in establishing goals, setting priorities, coordinating disparate activities, and how they adjust to a changing environment. Class produces actual strategic plans.
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3.00 Credits
Highlights the function of communication as the lifeblood of public and nonprofit organizations, examining the nature of such communication issues as organizational culture, communication networks, and message distortion, communication climate, communication and conflict, new communication technologies and communication during crisis situations as these impact public and nonprofit organizations.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to meet the needs of the professional administrator who works within the growing not-for-profit sector and also the governmental employee who may work in cooperation with non-profit sector. Governance through boards of directors, impacts of public policy, planning and policy formulation, funding and social marketing, effective partnership with business and government agencies, and challenges of motivation and leadership are examined.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the critical interconnection among strategic goals and objectives; community needs assessment, program design and evaluation to the organization’s mission. Students will gain knowledge of the strategic planning process through an experiential approach that creates the mission, identifies long-range goals, develops objectives and action plans. Provides students exposure to the full cycle of organizational activities to examine organizational effectiveness by exploring approaches to community needs assessment and building a program and evaluation process based on the needs assessment.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the aggregate of human resource management process in complex organizations. The course will focus on current policy issues and problems that challenge today’s human resource specialists, supervisors, and managers. Further, beyond the internal focus, the course will also examine the external human resources brought to non-profit organizations by governing boards and volunteers. Students will study important policy issues for their political, legal, social, ethical and organizational ramifications.
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3.00 Credits
This course will expose the student to non-profit financial management concepts and practices including the framework for budgeting, financial analysis, internal controls and reporting. Students will engage in exercises and learn to use tools for financial management. The course will introduce and cement the partnership between non-profit programming and effective financial management, and identify the intersections among governance, programmatic vision and financial practices.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how fundraising works and fits into non-profit management as a whole. Students will learn what must be in place before a non-profit organization raises money; how to plan and implement various approaches to raising funds, including grant writing, events and major gifts; and how to develop, manage and evaluate an annual fundraising plan.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the policies, strategies and the decision-making process to support successful program implementation from a manager’s perspective. Non-profit policy formulation places emphasis on training managers to develop and analyze problems, both in terms of choosing goals and organizing resources to achieve them. Students will be given the opportunity to formulate strategic implementation considerations using environmental analysis, resource assessment, goal determination, program planning and evaluation, and performance overview. This course will concentrate on the process of implementing programs and the role of advocacy in achieving programmatic and overall mission attainment.
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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the methods and models of policy analysis used by public administrators. Emphasis on developing a perspective for putting social problems in the context of market failure as well as government failure. The basics of cost-benefit analysis and its application are also examined.
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