The Metropolitan Planning and Urban Affairs concentration provides students with a broad perspective on the issues relating to land use, transportation, housing, economic development, and related social problems. It instills an understanding of the institutional and analytical issues affecting units of government, planning agencies, and other urban public service institutions.
Core Courses (40 quarter hours)
MPS 499 Presentation Skills/Public Services
MPS 500 Introduction to Public Service Management
MPS 503 Public Service Organizations in the Three Sectors
MPS 504 Ethics in Administration (two quarter hours) OR
MPS 502 Ethics in International Administration (two quarter hours)
MPS 541 Economic Foundations
MPS 522 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
MPS 542 Policy Design and Analysis
MPS 570 Research Methods in Public Service
MPS 571 Metropolitan Planning
MPS 580 Quantitative Methods in Public Service OR
MPS 581 Advanced Quantitative Methods
EITHER
MPS 590 Public Service Assessment and Evaluation (two quarter hours) AND
MPS 593 Integrated Seminar
OR
MPS 585 Thesis Design (two quarter hours) AND
MPS 598 Thesis Research
Electives (12 quarter hours)
MPS 514 Government Financial Administration
MPS 516 Management of Information Technology
MPS 526 Local Government Administration
MPS 529 Strategic Planning
MPS 572 Urban Poverty Seminar
MPS 573 Urban and Community Analysis
MPS 574 Community Organizations and Urban Development
MPS 600 Independent Study
MPS 601 Internship
MPS 605 Seminar in Administration: EU and NATO (Brussels)
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