3 courses with the subject PA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PA 500Principles of Financial Management for the Contemporary Public Sector
As an introduction to the theory and application of today's public finance, this course examines the rationales for government intervention in the marketplace, analyzes methods of resolving conflicts over the size and nature of the public sector budget, extensively analyzes the rationales and issues of various sources of public revenue and reviews the effects of public sector spending and taxing on the economy. Other topics to be covered include the history and the trends of how government acquires and distributes funds, and the government's accountability to taxpayers and other governing bodies. The "politics" of the public budgeting process will also be examined in-depth.
This course is intended as an introduction to contemporary political philosophy as it applies to today's public administration formulation of policy and subsequent implementation, seen through an examination 120
This course explores the core concepts of Political Science—the attainment, retention, and exercise of power—and Public Administration—the effective delivery of public services. Drawing on Aristotle’s view, it examines how power and authority are established and exercised at local, national, and international levels. It also incorporates Woodrow Wilson’s definition of Public Administration as the structured implementation of public law, emphasizing policymaking, service delivery, and the management functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling within government systems.
