The concentration in Public Administration is designed for both working professionals and pre-service students to enhance their career growth in the public sector. This concentration upgrades the skill base of working professionals and develops administrative knowledge in those aspiring to careers in local, state and federal government. It combines critical thinking skills with an applied focus on stakeholders' needs, coupled with rigorous instruction in the techniques and tools of public management. Its goal is to enable graduates to successfully lead public organizations and programs. Since modern public administration spans multiple boundaries in today's society, the concentration draws its faculty from a broad, interdisciplinary base.
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 514 Government Financial Administration
MPS 522 Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
MPS 526 Local Government Administration
MPS 542 Policy Design and Analysis
MPS 570 Research Methods in Public Service
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 516 Management of Information Technology
MPS 521 Leadership and Management
MPS 529 Strategic Planning
MPS 541 Economic Foundations of Public Services
MPS 543 Policy Implementation in a Bureaucratic and Political Context
MPS 544 Law Enforcement Policy Issues
MPS 546 Advocacy and Public Policy
MPS 553 Management Control in Nonprofits and Government
MPS 563 Law and Public Policy
MPS 600 Independent Study
MPS 601 Internship
MPS 605 Seminar in Administration: EU and NATO (Brussels) MPS 615 Intercultural Communication in Organizations
Offered by the Sociology Department
SOC 440 Law and Social Science
SOC 442 Crime, Delinquency and Systems of Correction
SOC 443 Law and Administration of Justice
SOC 444 Law Enforcement and Community Relations
PUBLIC SOC 447 Institutional Reaction to Deviants
SOC 448 Gangs
SOC 449 Criminal Organizations
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