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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

    

A bachelor degree program representing awareness of and exposure to the fundamental principles and practices of public administration.

REQUIREMENTS:

  1. 120 semester/180 quarter credits
  2. Critical Analysis, Annotated Bibliography, Proposal and Major Paper
  3. 25% of studies in general education
  4. 25%-50% from core curriculum

PREREQUISITES:

An associate degree or the equivalent in the same, or in a related area, plus some working experience.

INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:

DISTANCE EDUCATION

CURRICULUM:

(CORE REQUIREMENTS)

Community Development
Public Policy Analysis
Organizational Theory
Public Personnel Administration
Fiscal and Budgetary Policy
Administrative Behavior
Concepts and Issues in Public Administration
Public Budgeting Process
Principles of Public Administration
The Urban Scene
Governmental Budgeting
Comparative Urban Government
Administrative Management

COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 315

              Title:         Community Development

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will have a comprehensive background in community development.

  2. Course Description: This course will focus primarily on the functional aspects of urban and regional community development.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 316

              Title:         Public Policy Analysis

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will demonstrate proficiency in public policy analysis.

  2. Course Description: The focus of this course will be on the role of administrators in policy analysis and decision making, with emphasis on the sudy of methods and techniques by which public policies can be analyzed and evaluated.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 318

              Title:         Organizational Theory

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will be able to articulate a thorough knowledge of organizational theory.

  2. Course Description: The identification of key concepts which are central to organizing and changing public agencies for social needs. These concepts are traced through the historical development of contemporary theories, and projection of trends in public agencies. This course focuses upon bureaucratic theory underlying contemporary organizational assumptions of man.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 320

              Title:         Public Personnel Administration

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding of public personnel administration.

  2. Course Description: Analysis of personnel problems. Supervision and management of public employees and public organization in an age of change.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 321

              Title:         Fiscal and Bugetary Policy

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will demonstrate that he/she understands and has a thorough knowledge of budget and fiscal policies.

  2. Course Description: Management trends in public sector finance, administration; budgetary procedures and techniques; control and monitoring systems. Cash managment; capital projects management; debt administration; disbursement, funds management and auditing.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 322

              Title:         Administrative Behavior

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding of administrative behavior.

  2. Course Description: Social, psychological and behavioral theories of organization; concepts of administrative leadership organization and the individual; emphasis on government organizations.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 323

              Title:         Concepts and Issues in Public Administration

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will articulate proficiency in theory and practice public administration.

  2. Course Description: Theory and practice of governmental administration in differing environments; role of administrators in public policy; issues facing administrators; techniques of administration.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 324

              Title:         Public Budgeting Process

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will demonstrate proficiency in the public budgeting process.

  2. Course Description: Budget planning, budget formulation, analysis of selected administrative processes and problems of governmental agencies, their legal and political relations to other agencies and to the public.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 325

              Title:         Principles of Public Administration

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will understand the principles of public adminstration.

  2. Course Description: Government and the administrative process as means of accomplishing public goals; public service; the community (world, national, local) as the setting; relation of culture to administration.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 326

              Title:         The Urban Scene

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will demonstrate efficiency in cross cultural examination of the urban scene.

  2. Course Description: Development of concepts; limits of experimentation; explanation; measurement; selection of variables; obstacles to social knowledge; utilization of social knowledge and policy evaluation in urban systems, planning and development of urban communities.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 328

              Title:         Governmental Budgeting

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will be able to manage legal, social, economic and political nature of governmental budgets and the budgetary process.

  2. Course Description: Theories and social consequences of budget decision-making and practices of budget control are analyzed and evaluated in light of evidence, from recent studies of the budgetary process at all levels of government.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 329

              Title:         Comparative Urban Government

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student can show reasonable efficiency in cross-cultural examination forms and processes of urban government.

  2. Course Description: Particular attention will be paid to the role of urbanization in political development. Also planning and development of urban communities.

1. Course Designation:

1.1        School:   Arts and Sciences

1.2         Department:   Public Administration

1.3         Course Number:      PA 327

              Title:         Administrative Management

1.4          Recommended Text List:

    FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION


  1. Course Objectives: Student will demonstrate proficiency in administration management.

  2. Course Description: Concepts and principles utilized in selected governmental personnel systems. Focus will be primarily upon governmental systems in the United States, national, state, local, foreign service and military; comparisons will be made with selected other governmental systems.



 
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