Public Administration

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the major public administration theories influencing the discipline, the role of the public bureaucracy in American society, and the interplay of politics and public administration at the national, state, and local government levels in addition to nonprofit organizations. To successfully implement policy, public administrators need to employ a variety of knowledge and skills. To that end, public administration will be examined through multiple lenses, including ethics, social justice and diversity, organization theory and behavior, public policy formation, public management, administrative reform, intergovernmental relations, and leadership.