PADM

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 280

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The course examines the theory and practice of administrative ethics with a focus on current ethical problems for public administrators. Students will be introduced to ethical dilemmas of public administration as students learn to have basic understanding of theories and traditions in public administration.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines modern theory and practice of personnel administration. The application of these theories and practices in the areas of recruitment, placement, career development, and in other phases of human resources management is covered. Recent issues arising from notions of comparable worth; implementation of affirmative action initiatives and from collective bargaining in the public sector represents topics for close analysis. This course is cross-listed with POLI 535.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Alias

POLI 535

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is designed to introduce the student to financial management. Government exists to provide valuable goods and service that individuals or businesses are not willing to provide. As the government operates with limited resources, whether or not the commitment of governmental resources really improves the conditions of the community is subject to speculation and evaluation. Nevertheless, financial management impacts on all segments of community including acquisition and allocation of resources. Focus will be on governmental financial resources and management, budgetary theories and intergovernmental financial relations, and debt financing. This course is cross-listed with POLI 631.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Alias

POLI 631

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is a study of the political, economic and social influence on the budgetary process. The role of politics and of various actors and institutions involved in the process, historical changes in the concept of 281

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Research methods course is critical to graduate students and provides a solid background in understanding how social science research is conducted. Introduction to scientific and analytic approach to building knowledge and skills, including role of concepts and theory, hypothesis formulation, operationalization, research design, data collection, data processing, statistical analysis, introductory computer skills, and report writing.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Students will learn leadership shifts and framework for responsible management in order to achieve a sustainable society, as well examines the contributions of sustainability, responsibility, ethics and technologies to organizational management.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course is a study of public policy processes. It examines what policies governments pursue and also why governments pursue such policies and the consequences of such policies. Several models including rational planning, group competition, political processes, institutional influences, etc., are used to describe and explain public policy. Case studies are also used to illustrate the realities of policy-making and policy implementation. This course is cross-listed with POLI 531.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Alias

POLI 531

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course examines some of the problems involved in the development, change and status of the powers, organization, functions, and interrelationships of federal, state, and local governments. The concept of new 282

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course focuses on exposing students to various types of governments, their structures, processes and policies, using a comparative analysis approach. Such studies provide intellectual excitement in the study of foreign systems and in the discovery of different political factors in the management and administration of governmental functions and operations. This course is cross-listed with POLI 632.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Alias

POLI 632

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 This course intends to provide students with an opportunity to apply the knowledge they have learned in PADM courses to work experiences in public or non-profit organizations and inform their course work with real-world professional experiences. Students are supervised and evaluated under the direction of the instructor in cooperation with administrators of their selected internship site.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 The MPA Capstone Project offers students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of the theory and practice of public administration by applying the knowledge and skills gained in the MPA program to a project of the students' choice. This involves completing a project report reflecting the cumulative knowledge gained from these experiences. The course is intended only for students who are completing their Master of Public Administration.

Subject

PADM

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credit Hours

Type

course

Edition

2023-2024

Source

uncfsu.catalog.acalog.com