20:790:512Ethical Issues in Public Policy and Administration (3) Consideration of selected ethical problems and dilemmas facing policy makers and public administrators. These issues include conflict of interest, confidentiality, deception, official disobedience, whistle-blowing, and record keeping, as well as questions of distributive justice in health care and employment opportunities. Special attention given to conflicts between expedience and principle in policy making and policy implementation. Readings in political theory and political ethics, as well as cases and commentary.

20:834:501Introduction to Public Administration (3) Concepts and methods for analyzing significant factors and relationships in governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations as they function in their environments. Students identify and diagnose the principal types of problems encountered at levels of high administrative responsibility in government and the nonprofit sector.

20:834:503,504Topics in Public Administration (3,3) Examination of selected issues and problems in public sector administration and management. The specific area within which issues are presented varies, but it may include health, public policy, human resources, and specialized topics. Students should check with the department to determine the precise curriculum to be offered in a given term.

20:834:505Intergovernmental Management (3) Management issues associated with administrative relationships among the levels of government in the United States, including fiscal and regulatory relations.

20:834:507Leadership (3) Leadership versus management; leadership qualities and characteristics; leadership skills, such as conflict management and team building; leadership tasks, including vision, agenda setting, and mobilizing resources; leadership in organizational and political settings; role of followership; and impact of diversity upon leaders and leadership.

20:834:508Public Accountability (3) Examines role of accountability in public and nonprofit agencies, with special attention to legal, professional, bureaucratic, and political accountability systems. Stress placed on managerial, behavioral, and ethical issues of various accountability mechanisms.

20:834:575Grant Writing and Grants Management (3) Grant writing and management for public and nonprofit agencies: proposal writing, promotional and support materials, budget development, fund-raising sources, grants-management system.

20:834:576Resource Development for Nonprofit Organizations (Fund-Raising) (3) Emphasizes best practices and provides practical experience in the methods that nonprofits use to ensure that their objectives are financed by means other than grants. The study of fund-raising encompasses strategic planning for annual giving, major gifts, and planned giving. Attention given to specific fund-raising techniques: stewardship training, case statements, direct mail, telephone solicitation, special events, lapsed donors, taxation and bequests, and capital campaigns.

20:834:703Internship in Public Administration (3) Participation in activities of an agency or institution under supervision of a faculty member and supervisor in the agency. Requires reports and analyses of activities.

20:834:521Technology and Public Administration (3) Implications of computer hardware and software issues for public sector management, with particular emphasis on applications of microprocessors. Includes a survey of database management problems, control, resource allocation, communications, and networking issues. Laboratory exercises required.

20:834:522Public Organizations (3) Theories of organizational behavior and performance as applied to public and nonprofit sector agencies; includes organizational authority systems, relationships between public and private organizations, development and fulfillment of organizational mandates in the public sector, and use of resources within organizations.

20:834:523Human Resources Administration (3) Human resource administration in public and nonprofit settings, including human resource planning, staffing, development, and compensation. Behavioral and environmental determinants are examined, including production technology, market factors, service delivery, and government regulations.

20:834:524Strategic Planning (3) Strategic planning and management in the public and nonprofit sectors, including methods that facilitate achieving organizational goals in a changing environment. Attention paid to forecasting, goal and objective setting, strategy building, and resource mobilization.

20:834:525Management Techniques (3) Problem-solving techniques that focus on effective managerial performance. Productivity and management improvement assessment techniques, including networking, queuing, simulations, linear programming quality-control approaches, focus groups, and the delphi technique.

20:834:526Public and Nonprofit Productivity (3) Analysis and critique of the most recent research on productivity in public organizations, with particular attention to human factors, work processes, effective-outcome measurement, and labor- management relations.

20:834:527Cases in Public and Nonprofit Productivity (3) Interrelates conceptual works in productivity with case studies that describe actual operations of public productivity programs. Cases cover concepts of measurement, management, technology and capital investment, and labor-management relations, with an emphasis on understanding the linkages between theory and practice.

20:834:528Information Systems and Public Administration (3) Focus on practical application of management information systems in the public sector through case studies and implementation strategies. Looks at such topics as databases, system architecture, data normalization, benefit-cost analysis; offers an introduction to programming. General familiarity with personal computers is required.

20:834:529Performance Measurement (3) Assessment of organizational performance, with particular attention to concepts of efficiency, effectiveness, outputs and outcomes. Examines evaluation design, data collection procedures, data analyses, and citizen involvement.

20:834:582Health Care Management (3) Focus on major social and political issues involved in the organization, delivery, and management of health care systems.

20:834:541Political Economy and Public Administration (3) Explores basic economic concepts and applies them to relevant public administration issues. Looks at microeconomic and macroeconomic problems as they impact the public and nonprofit sectors.

20:834:542Government Budgeting Systems (3) Budget concepts and processes used by the American governments and their administrative units. Provides essential skills and experience in budgetary analysis and management applicable to nonprofit as well as public sector agencies.

20:834:543Public Financial Management (3) Surveys all major activities that concern the allocation, investment, and control of public funds. Activities include financial analysis, cash and pension fund investing, accounting, auditing, and financial reporting. Touches upon questions of budgeting and revenues in the context of fiscal policy making.

20:834:545Capital Budgeting (3) All aspects of capital budgeting, including what is appropriately included in capital budgets, what governments use capital budgets and why, how to create a capital improvement plan, and how to convert a capital improvement plan into a capital budget.

20:834:546Infrastructure Finance (3) Implementation of the financing of a capital improvement plan for infrastructure items, such as streets, parks, public utilities, and other public works. Short- and long-term methods of financing, and the mix of markets in which funds may be sought. Emphasis on the latest financial tools created among investment banks in the public finance area. Fieldwork required.

20:834:547Government Revenue Systems (3) Creation and management of the revenue systems of a state or local government. Focus on taxes, fee for services, intergovernmental aid, and interest income. Laboratory application and fieldwork required.

20:834:561Analytical Methods (3) Quantitative methods in the analysis of planning and management problems. Includes descriptive statistics, statistical distributions, probability, hypothesis development, significance testing, correlation, contingency table analysis, and regression.

20:834:562Research Design (3) Comprehensive literature review, methodology, and data collection strategies. Students develop full research proposal including research question; those who are writing a paper as their capstone requirement use this proposal as the basis for their paper. Prerequisite: 20:834:561.

20:834:597Advanced Study (3) Final required course of self-directed study. Students who opt for a capstone paper will write their paper. Students sitting for the comprehensive exams will prepare for their exams. (Substitute capstone 20:834:563) Prerequisite: 20: 834:562.

20:834:598Independent Study (3) Available as an elective for students who opt to explore a specific topic or issue under the guidance of a faculty member. The independent study must be approved in advance by the director of the M.P.A. program prior to the student`s enrollment in the course.

20:834:581Introduction to Health Care Systems (3) Provides an overview of the health care system in the United States, including a survey of health care uses, providers, financing, and quality-of-care issues.

20:834:582Health Care Management (3) Focus on major social and political issues involved in the organization, delivery, and management of health care systems.

20:834:584Health Care Finance (3) Processes and methods of financial management in the health care industry. Patterns of health care expenditures, methods of financing health care, financial planning and development, third-party reimbursement, and controls in health institutions management.

20:834:585Health Care Policy (3) Analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs affecting health. Focuses on health care institutions, with some attention to managing health problems with nonmedical interventions at the community level. Uses the case method applied to realistic situations in which specific decisions must be made by health managers or officials.

20:834:586Violence in the United States (3) Life-cycle approach to violence, including violence against children; juvenile, domestic, male-male, and cultural violence. With each type of violence, examination of historical and empirical dimensions of the problem; current theories about dynamics and causality, and the likely efficacy of current and proposed interventions. Emphasis placed on class, racial, and gender inequalities.

20:834:556Foundations of Urban School Administration and Supervision (3) Drawing upon the literature on school administration and leadership, theories and practices are applied to the specifics of urban schools and urban school reform. Within this context, students explore how school administrators can be at the center of school restructuring and revitalization.

20:834:557Urban School Leadership and Communications (3) Through an examination of school administration, leadership, and supervision literature and its application to urban districts, prospective school administrators analyze the complexities of urban school problems and improvement.

20:834:558Leadership in Curriculum, Instructional, Leadership and Assessment in Urban Schools (3) Explores recent policies and practices in curriculum, instruction, and assessment, including recent debates about national and state curriculum and learning standards and how to assess them. Special attention focuses on the New Jersey State Core Curriculum standards, various instructional strategies to teach these, and their assessment.

20:834:559Public School Finance (3) The course covers the educational decision-making process in the political and economic systems in which they exist. Particular attention is given the tax structures which yield the resources directly supporting education, especially the property tax, as well as non-tax resources and the federated governmental structure through which they pass.

20:834:614Urban Educational Policy and School Improvement (3) Through a historical, sociological, and political analysis of educational problems, this course explores a variety of policy initiatives and reforms, including curriculum and learning standards, school choice, tuition vouchers, charter schools, privatization, and whole school reform.

20:834:xxxPublic Education Law Seminar (3) Deals with the basic legal structure of the public education system and explores a range of current legal and educational policy issues confronting the public schools.