NGO Education Survey

PUBA 600 Foundations of Public Sector Management and Leadership

This course explores the evolution and current status of the public sector in the United States. Students will study the ethical, legal, political, and professional dimensions of public service.

PUBA 601 Research and Quantitative Methods for Public Administration

This course examines the various aspects of collecting and processing primary and secondary data utilized by public organizations for decision-making and program evaluation. Students will learn basic qualitative and quantitative methods for developing a valid research design, how to create and implement surveys, and basic statistical analysis techniques.

PUBA 602 Public Policy

This course examines the activities of individuals, groups, and institutions that define or ignore public problems, participate or fail to participate in political struggles over these problems and confront or avoid opportunities to develop and implement solutions. The implications of these complexities for public employees and public management are emphasized.

PUBA 604 Managing Human Resources

This course considers the context and practice of effective human resource management, with special emphasis on the political, legal, historical, and ethical dimensions of public employment. Students will apply personnel management theories and techniques to contemporary organizational challenges to investigate the tensions inherent to balancing competing values and demands.

PUBA 605 Managing Financial Resources

This course examines the organization and techniques of governmental financial management, budgetary theories and intergovernmental financial relations.

PUBA 511 Urban Policy

This course will introduce students to the field of urban policy and will train students to critically analyze policy debates that directly impact city life. The course traces the major ideological shifts in urban policy over the past century, analyzes their historical and philosophical foundations and explores the relationship between urban change and policy formulation.

PUBA 516 Local and Regional Economic Development: Policy and Practice

This course examines the forces that drive regional growth and change and assesses the policies and practices that are commonly used in pursuit of economic growth, including industrial targeting, incentives, and human capital development.

PUBA 517 Urban Transportation: Problems and Prospects

Foundational urban transportation concepts, theories, and policies are analyzed in applied contexts. Students explore contemporary problems, and prepare solutions to these problems. The transportation planning process is reviewed and critiqued, including the political and ethical implications surrounding this process. The role of Geographic Information Sciences in transportation planning is examined.

PUBA 518 History and Theory of American Urban Planning

This course provides a critical evaluation of the field of planning. The class focuses on the origins and evolution of the discipline, tools of planning practice, and the interrelated planning elements of economic development, social justice and environmental protection.

PUBA 519 Community Planning

This course is a survey of the field of community planning in urban and rural contexts. Topics may include urbanism, ruralism, sustainability and environmental planning, historic preservation, design, public art, economic (re)development, among others. Various approaches to community planning will be explored including top-down/bureaucratic community planning and grassroots/bottom-up community planning.

PUBA 520 Local Government Politics and Administration

This course examines the role of local government administrators as leaders and service providers. The course explores an understanding of local political environments and develops an understanding of what they mean in terms of democratic institutions and theory.

PUBA 701 Public Administration Capstone

The capstone seminar is designed to be a culminating experience that helps the student integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes acquired throughout the program.