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Appendix A - Courses Considered for Curriculum
Course
Title Description
No.
Public Policy Examination of public policy formation processes in the United States,
PSAA 611
Formation with emphasis on the federal level
State and Local Gain a practical working knowledge of institutions and processes
PSAA 617
Government through which state and local policy are made and implemented
Budgeting in Public
PSAA 623 Budgeting in Public Introduce students to public finance and budgeting
Service
Assess three critical aspects of public management; role of management
PSAA 634 Public Management in public sector, validity of argument that government should be run like
a business and tools public managers need to be effective
Examines use of contracts and grants in providing social services.
Explores theoretical background of government contracts and grants;
Grant and Contract the management of third-party services from the perspectives of
PSAA 636
Management government agencies, private sector companies, and non-profit
organizations, and the skills to write effective grant and contract
proposals.
Decision Making in
Introduce to the study and practice of judgment and decision-making
PSAA 637 Gov't and Public
processes in government and administrative settings.
Service
Students will examine public sector performance management and
Performance measurement as tools for improving strategic planning, resource
Management in the allocation, organizational learning, internal operational practices, and
PSAA 648
Public and Nonprofit internal and external accountability. They will apply their learning to the
Sectors development of a particular organization's performance measurement
system.
Public Personnel Organization and operation of civil service personnel systems in
PSAA 661
Administration American governments.
Examination of how public policy issues are contested and shaped by the
Public Organization in major cleavages in American society, such as race and ethnicity,
PSAA 616
a Pluralistic Society economic and social class, and gender; strategies for building consensus
across these divisions. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.
Framework for positive and normative economic analysis of public
PSAA 622 Public Finance sector spending and taxation; application of fundamental analytical
principles of public finance to current public policy
BUSH Leadership and Pubic Overview of the field of public administration theory and practice of
601 Administration leadership
Introduction to common methods for social and policy analysis,
BUSH Quantitative Methods
evaluation, and survey research; emphasis on the performance of social
631 in Public Mgmt I
and policy analysis
Numerous formal aspects, methodologies, and decision making useful in
BUSH Quantitative Methods
public management including benefit-cost analysis, program evaluation,
data analysis, and formulation of results and conclusions17
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