NGO Education Survey

College: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Department: Public Administration

Courses:

Introduction to Nonprofit Sector

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 4144

This is a multidisciplinary course examining the historical, political, legal, ethical and societal environments in which nonprofit organizations operate. This primarily includes institutions involved with education, social services, health care, and the arts. The course is intended for students who are seeking to enter the nonprofit field and those who have considerable experience working in nonprofits.

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Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 4202

The course is designed to provide a broad-based understanding of the various vehicles used to fund nonprofit organizations. It also provides hands-on, practical instruction in researching funding sources and developing funding requests and grant applications.

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Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 4203

Course introduces students to the theory and practice of financial management within nonprofit organizations, including churches, charities, hospitals, and human service organizations. This course provides an introduction to management issues faced by leaders in nonprofit organizations.

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Managing for Excellence in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors Special Topics (Legislative Advocacy)

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 4332

Surveys current management and leadership tools and processes used in both private and public organizations. Provides a conceptual understanding of strategies to improve public and nonprofit organizational performance such as measurement, strategic planning, employee motivation, and organizational development and change.

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Nonprofit Internship

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 4942

Offers nonprofit working-world experience that allows the acquisition of career-relevant expertise and networks.

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Department: Public Administration Graduate Courses

Courses:

Seminar in Administrative Policy Making

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6035

Study of administrative discretion in the policy process with an emphasis on regulation and distribution.

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Public Administration and Public Policy

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6036

A critical examination of the role of public administrators in setting the public agenda, formation of action strategies, execution of preferred action strategy, and evaluation of the impacts of the preferred strategy. M.P.A. core course.

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Democratic Values and Public Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6042

An inquiry into the administrative state and its implications for democracy.

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Introduction to Public Service and Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6053

An analysis of the contemporary political, economic, and social institutions and processes in which the profession of public administration is practiced. M.P.A. core course.

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Public Leadership

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6063

Covers fundamental managerial and leadership aspects of public service. Explores personal, ethical, organizational, political, and legal dimensions of governance in the public interest. M.P.A. core course.

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Images of Public Administration in Literature, Popular Culture, and Film

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6065

Introduction to theory in public administration through the use of film, popular culture images, literature, and other media.

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Organization and Administrative Behavior

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6106

Analysis of the formal, informal, and societal characteristics of complex human organizations. Use is made of standard theories of organizations as well as of their more contemporary variations. M.P.A. core course.

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Public Service Capstone

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6139

Combines administrative history with analysis of concrete situations in public administration. Portrays clash of forces, personalities, and issues in attempting solution to administrative problems. Typically taken in last or next-to-last semester. M.P.A. core course.

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Introduction to Nonprofit Management

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6142

The role of the nonprofit sector in a democracy and market economy; examination of historical, political, legal, ethical, and social environments in which nonprofit organizations operate; analysis of both theoretical and practical issues and problems faced by managers of nonprofit organizations.

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Public Policy and Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6143

Prerequisite: PAD 6142 or permission of instructor This course seeks to acquaint students with the theoretical and practical issues confronting nonprofit organizations. The course systematically examines the ways in which the public policy process both supports and regulates the activities of nonprofits and the ways in which nonprofits seek to affect public policy governing their behavior. This is an Academic Service Learning (ASL) course.

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Volunteer Management in Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6145

Prerequisite: PAD 6142 This course reviews volunteer management as an essential element in the nonprofit field. It covers the history and purpose of volunteer usage in nonprofit organizations and how to recruit, retain and motivate volunteers, as well as ethical issues and potential legal liabilities.

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Governance in Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6149

Prerequisite: PAD 6142 or permission of instructor Nonprofits are controlled by boards of directors. This course discusses the legal foundations for boards, their conventional roles and responsibilities, and the strategic planning processes to strengthen board leadership. This is an Academic Service Learning (ASL) course.

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Organizational Change and Public Management

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6154

Seminar focuses on several levels of change, their sources or causes, consequences, and implications for public management.

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Legal and Ethical Issues in Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6165

Course is designed to examine in detail the legal issues confronting nonprofit corporations. Emphasis is on a review of the laws pertaining to nonprofits, focusing on structure, management, behavior, and accountability.

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Human Resource Management for Nonprofits

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6166

The course examines both theoretical and practical issues and problems faced by managers of nonprofit human resource managers. It provides an overview of the strategies, approaches and practices that best address the complex legal and management challenges common in a nonprofit environment. Theories of staff and volunteer recruitment, retention, motivation, performance evaluation, team building, compliance, risk management, compensation, equity and workplace-learning are explored. The course is designed to provide for maximum interaction between the students and instructor.

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Management in Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6168

Course covers managing change in individual lives and in nonprofit organizations. This course deepens students' understanding of the challenges, techniques and problems associated with implementing major change in nonprofit organizations.

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Public Finance and Policy Analysis

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6205

This course uses the theoretical and empirical tools of public finance to analyze public policy. The course is designed to show the strengths and weaknesses of government in the financing and operation of programs in major public policy areas.

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Fundraising for Nonprofits

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6206

Examines the history, principles and practical applications and aspects of financial resource development and the ethical responsibilities among individuals, corporations, government funders and public donors that are involved. Exploration of types of nonprofits, revenue streams, constituency composition and generational giving.

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Seminar in Public Financial Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6207

Examination of the budgetary process. Analysis and application of theories and techniques of public financial administration, including budgetary approaches, cash management, debt management, risk management, procurement, and tax administration.

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Public Budgeting and Finance

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6227

Examines the theory and practice of public budgeting and finance as it relates to the administrative processes of control, management and planning. Special emphasis is placed on policy development and decision making relating to fiscal decisions that help shape the policy direction of public organizations. M.P.A. core course

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Grantwriting and Project Management

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6233

This course provides an opportunity to explore various approaches to grantwriting and resource development in public and nonprofit organizations as well as evolving trends, such as sustainable practices, dissemination strategies, data management and analysis.

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Financial Management for Nonprofit Managers

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6260

This course covers accounting standards and principles for state and local governments and nonprofit organizations, including fund structure and accounting process. This is an Academic Service Learning (ASL) course.

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Program Review and Analysis

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6327

Prerequisite: PAD 6701 Analysis of systematic methods for evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of public programs; means for determining the extent to which program administration promotes achievement of program objectives.

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Strategic Planning in the Public Sector

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6333

Study of strategic planning and how to apply that knowledge to real world organizations.

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Seminar in Policy Implementation

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6365

This course examines the political and bureaucratic setting in which public policies are implemented and the political problems in implementation. Emphasis on political constraints of administrative agencies.

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Public Policy Process

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6385

Prerequisite: PAD 6036 This course covers the public policy process, including policy formation and adoption, policy implementation, and evaluation. The course aims to add to the student's knowledge and understanding of policy theory, substantive policy areas, and the role of administrators in the policy process.

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Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6417

Review of development of public personnel policies and programs with emphasis on changes resulting from new approaches and employee organization. Studies personnel responsibilities of all public managers and employees. M.P.A. core course.

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Labor Relations in Government

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6427

Studies the growth of employee organization in the public sector, with particular emphasis on the state and local level. Reviews special problems facing government administration and the effects of employee organization in government administration.

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Ethical and Legal Foundations in the Public Sector

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6436

Ethical considerations for professional public administrators operating in the ethos of a republic; situational analysis of conflicts with elected legislative, executive, and judicial officials; professional policy and career goals; and issues of democracy, bureaucracy, and morality in public service. M.P.A. core course.

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Administrative Law and Procedures

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6605

A survey and analysis of the law concerning the rule-making and adjudicatory powers and procedures of administrative agencies and the effect such rules have on the delivery of services by federal, state, and local government.

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Regulation

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6612

The course analyzes how and why bureaucracies develop regulations and the role that regulations play in the policy process with a focus on the economic, political, administrative, and social factors that influence regulatory choices and the impacts of those regulations.

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Statistical Analysis for Effective Decision Making

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6701

Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics or permission of instructor A study of the statistical methods, techniques, and procedures used in the analysis of public sector data, with emphasis on computer analysis. M.P.A. core course.

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Survey Research in the Public Sector

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6727

Within the public and nonprofit sectors, survey research skills have become essential due to the necessity of gathering primary data. Course focus here is on students learning a set of skills to assist them in completing survey research in their professional fields.

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Local Government Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6807

Analysis of the performance of urban agencies, alternative strategies for improving service delivery and management, and strategies for effective change in the public sector.

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Intergovernmental Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6826

Studies both theoretical and practical aspects of administration of federalism, including distribution and use of shared revenue funds. Review practices as well as principles pursued in both competitive and cooperative interjurisdictional patterns.

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Public Procurement Concepts and Practices

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6855

This course provides an overview of public procurement as a basic functional area of government. Specific focus on the scope of public procurement, including organizational structure, regulations, process and methods, and current issues in public procurement.

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Public Procurement and Project Management

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6856

Course covers each phase of the public procurement project cycle, with an emphasis on tools and techniques to manage a public procurement project.

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Public Sector Procurement Law and Ethics

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6857

Course surveys the ethics and law pertaining to federal government procurement, including analysis of the unique features of government contracting.

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Public Sector Contract Formulation

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6858

Course covers all phases of the contract formulation process with a focus on the RFP and RFB procedure, documents, and other technical issues.

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Public Sector Contract Administration

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6859

Course provides an in-depth study of contract administration with a focus on all activities in the postaward phase of the contract process.

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Directed Independent Study

Credit Bearing: 1 - 3
Level: PAD 6907

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Reading and research in a field of public administration; a course to be selected with the consultation of and approved by the M.P.A. Coordinator.

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Special Topics

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6931

Study relating to special issues in Public Administration.

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Government Internship

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6941

A diversified work experience in management or staff positions in federal, state, or local government or in a nonprofit organization providing public service.

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Internship-Nonprofit Organizations

Credit Bearing: 3
Level: PAD 6943

Students without prior work experience in nonprofit organizations must complete an internship. The University will place the student in a nonprofit organization for 15 weeks.

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