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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Contemporary service organizations are concerned with improving their quality and productivity. What are the different approaches to accomplishing these ends? Subjects such as Total Quality Management and other approaches will be examined and utilized to suggest techniques to improve educational, public, and nonprofit organizations.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This class will focus on important legal and regulatory issues as they relate to public, education, and nonprofit organizations. It will consider the various court and administrative decisions which affect these. Numerous case situations will be used to facilitate the students' learning.
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3.00 Credits
This two-pronged program aligns the planning, design, and implementation of pre-service and in-service staff development programs for individuals and groups with an analysis and study of internal and external consultant roles and practices that help ensure proper development of personnel, processes and programs to enhance the organizational mission and desired outcomes.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The seminar examines the interaction of bureaucracies and their communities. It is particularly concerned with citizen roles and involvement in governance and communications in education, public and nonprofit organizations. Concepts used include community power, pressure groups and organization culture and climate.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
At the seminar, teachers participate in interactive learning activities with local government staff members. Officials serve as resource people, not lecturers. Teachers experience each lesson through the eyes of their students. All participants provide complete lesson plans for each activity, making it easy to share favorites from the course/academy with colleagues. Teachers work on developing coordinated learning experiences in local government including field trips, case studies and class visitations drawn from both school district and local government resource-bases.
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3.00 Credits
Basic principles and actual practices of financial administration and accounting for state/local govenments, public school systems and nonprofit organizations, particularly budgeting and financial reporting within the context of other organizational processes and political demands and/or requirements. As one of the MPA core seminars, the case method will be employed to illustrate issues and problems of financial administration.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on the goals, methods and issues associated with accounting for funds used in public agencies, school districts and nonprofit organizations. Included in the course is consideration of the preparation and use of financial statements, and Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. A variety of other related topics will be covered such as managing debt, investments, and cash management practices.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The course will analyze the role of fundraising and philanthropy for nonprofits. The class will examine issues such as the cultural, political and economic supports and constraints within which nonprofit organizations operate. Students will be able to enhance their fundraising skills and their knowledge of the fundraising practices of nonprofits.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will examine human resource administration activities in public, educational and nonprofit settings. Issues such as recruiting, selection, planning, performance appraisal, contracting and collective bargaining will be related to the overall administrative activities. Emphasis will be placed on the connections between human resource issues in public, education, and nonprofit organizations.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Students will learn how organizations are structured and shaped, know what features of organizations vary and the parameters on which they vary, and be able to analyze, synthesize, and apply concepts to reduce organizational uncertainty, and to improve and regulate organization behaviors and outcomes. Attention will also focus on top down and participatory administration in organizations, and change in public, educational, and nonprofit organizations and agencies.
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