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Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs 607 Lower Division Preparation Howard A. Frank, and Chairperson Mohamad Alkadry, Professor and MPA Director It is required that students complete a course in American Susannah Bruns-Ali, Assistant Professor , Principles of and Computer Instructor Fundamentals for Business. Agatha Caraballo, Can Cheng, Assistant Professor Upper Division Program Shaoming Cheng, Associate Professor Nazife Emel Ganapati, Associate Professor Students must complete 60 credit hours of coursework, of Sukumar Ganapati, Associate Professor and PhD which 48 credit hours must be at the 3000 level or greater.

Director Students must complete the following requirements: Professor Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor, 1. Eight core courses. (24 credits), including a three Assistant Professor Hai Guo, credit seminar, PAD 4934 (Integrative Seminar in Assistant Professor Alexander Kroll, Public Administration). Associate Professor Milena I. Neshkova, 2. Four courses (12 credits) of concentration Professor Meredith A. Newman, electives to be taken from the Steven J. Green Clinical Associate Professor Valerie L. Patterson, School of International and Public Affairs at the Associate Professor Keith D. Revell, 3000 level or greater. Professor Allan Rosenbaum, 3. Eight courses (24 credits) of general electives

from any department at the 3000 level or greater. Bachelor of Public Administration 4. Students must earn a grade of ‘C’ or higher in

each of the core courses, the concentration Degree Program Hours: 120 electives, and the general electives. A ‘C-’ is not The Bachelor of Public Administration (BPA) degree is acceptable and must be repeated. offered for students interested in a wide range of public Students are required to enroll in PAD 3003 and PAD service careers and for those who wish to continue in 4723 during the first 12 hours of upper-division public administration at the graduate level. coursework.

Admission Requirements Core Courses: (24) Students are admitted directly to their chosen major at the (Core Courses may be restricted to Degree-seeking University. Students are expected to make good progress students in the Department of Public Administration. All based on critical indicators that include course completion other students must seek approval of Department.) and GPA requirements. In cases where students are not PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration 3 making successful progress, a change of major may be PAD 3034 Development and Implementation required. Academic advisors work with students to identify – GL 3 an appropriate major where a student will be successful in PAD 3800 Managing Global – GL 3 completing an undergraduate degree. PAD 4723 Applied Research Methods for Policy and 3 Common Prerequisite Courses and PAD 4223 Budgeting 3 Equivalencies PAD 4414 Personnel Skills for Administrators 3 FIU Course(s) Equivalent Course(s) PAD 4432 Administrative and Behavior 3 PAD 4934 Integrative Seminar 3 CGS 2060 or CGS 2100 CGSX060 or CGSX100 ECO 2013 or ECO 2023 ECOX013 or ECOX023 Concentration Electives: (12) POS 2041 POSX041 Courses which form part of the statewide articulation Students are required to take 12 credits of upper-division between the State University System and the Florida coursework from the following departments: Public College System will fulfill the Lower Division Common Administration; Global and Sociocultural Studies; Criminal Prerequisites. ; and and , with no For generic course substitutions/equivalencies for more than six hours from any one of these programs. Common Program Prerequisites offered at These courses may constitute part of a minor or a colleges, state colleges, or state universities, visit: certificate program in another department. Such a minor or https://www.flvc.org, Search Program Listing by certificate program must be pre-approved by the Alphabetic Order. undergraduate advisor and be relevant to the chosen administrative area of concentration. Common Prerequisites 1. POS 2041 American Government General Electives: (24)

2. ECO 2013 Principles of Students are required to take 24 hours of general or electives. Students with no relevant public or nonprofit ECO 2023 Principles of experience are encouraged to register for an appropriate internship (PAD 4940) for elective credits. 3. CGS 2060 Introduction to Microcomputers or Minor in Public Administration CGS 2100 Intro to Microcomputer Applications for 608 Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 A five-course minor in Public Administration is available to 6. Completion of at least 12 credits of Public baccalaureate degree-seeking students who are Administration coursework and at least 24 credits of interested in careers in . The courses that coursework at FIU. comprise this minor will provide students with the 7. Completion of all lower division requirements, opportunity to develop specialized skills in such areas as including the University Core Curriculum, prior to urban administration, organizational change, personnel acceptance to the combined program. management, and budgeting and . 8. Attainment of a grade of ‘B’ or better on all graduate courses completed while in the BPA program. Requirements Courses Counted Toward both Degree Programs Fifteen semester hours in Public Administration. Classes Students accepted into the combined degree program are to be selected from the following course list: may count no more than 4 of the master’s courses PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration 3 (maximum of 12 credits) listed below toward satisfying PAD 3034 Policy Development and Implementation both the BPA and MPA degree requirements: – GL 3 PAD 3431 Exploring Leadership: Yourself, Your PAD 6053 Political, Social and Economic Context Organization and Your Community 3 of Public Administration 3 PAD 3438 Communication Skills for Policy and must be among the four double-counted courses Management 3 Students may select 3 of the following courses to be PAD 3800 Managing Global Cities – GL 3 doubled-counted: PAD 3804 Government and Administration of PAD 6227 and the Budgetary Metropolitan Areas 3 Process 3 PAD 4046 Values, , and Conflict Resolution 3 PAD 6306 and Planning 3 PAD 4141 Citizen Participation and Community PAD 6417 Human Resource Policy and Empowerment 3 Management 3 PAD 4223 Public Sector Budgeting 3 PAD 6434 Leadership and Decision-making 3 PAD 4414 Personnel Skills for Administrators 3 PAD 6701 Quantitative Methods in Public PAD 4432 Administrative Leadership and Behavior 3 Administration 3 PAD 4940 Public Administration Internship 3 (Prerequisite: PAD 4704) Students must contact the department from which the PAD 6726 Applied Research Methods for student wishes to receive the minor when they apply for in Public and Non- graduation. This will ensure that the minor will be posted Organizations 3 on the transcript. (Prerequisite: PAD 6701)

With advisor approval, these graduate courses can be Combined BPA/MPA Degree Program substituted for the equivalent required or any elective The combined BPA/MPA degree program offered by the bachelor’s in public administration courses listed in the Department of Public Administration allows qualified program catalog, with the exception of PAD 4934 students to earn both degrees in a shorter amount of time Integrative Seminar, which must be taken by all BPA than typically required for earning degrees sequentially. majors. Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 A student admitted to the combined degree program will or better in all upper level and graduate level coursework be considered to have undergraduate status until the completed as prior to admission to the MPA program. student applies for graduation from their bachelor’s degree Students accepted into the accelerate BPA/MPA program. Upon conferral of the bachelor’s degree, the degree program must complete all of the requirements of the MPA to receive their graduate degree. student will be granted graduate status and be eligible for graduate assistantships.

Admissions Requirements to the Combined Course Descriptions Degree Program Definition of Prefixes PAD-Public Administration; URP-Urban and Regional 1. Overall GPA of 3.2 or better. Planning; URS-Urban and Regional Studies 2. Letter of recommendation from a faculty member at Courses that meet the University’s Global Learning FIU or from a supervisor. requirement are identified as GL. 3. Current resume.

4. Letter-of-intent not to exceed three double-spaced

pages explaining how earning the Master’s of Public PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration (3). Provides an overview of the field of public administration Administration is consistent with long-term career by focusing on its development and importance in modern goals. Students may also use this letter to discuss government operations. Must be taken in first 12 hours of their passion for public issues or and to upper-division coursework. communicate to the admission committee if they feel that their admission file does not properly reflect their PAD 3033 Administrators and the Legislative Process potential to succeed in graduate school. (3). A study of -legislative interactions; the 5. Application to the combined program after having impact of legislation and legislative processes on completed at least 75 credit hours but no more than administrative policy decision-making and implementation; 90 credit hours in the BPA program. the influence of administration on the legislative process.

Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs 609 PAD 3034 Policy Development and Implementation – PAD 4140 Introduction to Management of Public and GL (3). Examines the formulation, implementation, and Nonprofit Organizations (3). This course addresses evaluation of governmental efforts at federal, state, and fundamental theories and principles of management in local levels. public and nonprofit organizations.

PAD 3251C Applied Economics for Public Managers PAD 4141 Citizen Participation and Community (3). This course provides an introduction to the applied Empowerment (3). Seminar is for public management economics of the public sector and the microeconomics of students who want to help citizens learn from one another making and administration. It also provides and strengthen the capacity of citizens to solve problems. an introduction to cost-benefit & cost-effectiveness Political, public administration, sociological, and analyses. organizational perspectives will be covered.

PAD 3430 Personal Growth and Organizational PAD 4201 Fiscal Analysis for Public and Nonprofit Development (3). The administrator as a person. Service (3). This course is designed to provide the basics Development of interpersonal skills. Self evaluation and of pricing and financial management applicable to public career planning. Training and for the public and nonprofit organizations. service sector. PAD 4223 Public Sector Budgeting (3). The theory and PAD 3431 Exploring Leadership: Yourself, Your practice of various approaches to budgeting, including Organization and Your Community (3). This course is line-item, performance, PPBS budgeting. Special an interactive exploration of personal leadership emphasis on the role of the budget in shaping the program development through current theories and models of and performance and policy direction of public leadership from three perspectives including individual, organizations. group, and society. PAD 4301 Planning Performance and Accountability PAD 3438 Communication Skills for Policy and (3). Provides an introduction to the analysis and evaluation Management (3). Designed to enable students to develop of public policies and programs. The main tools and oral and written skills required to communicate effectively techniques of policy analysis will be discussed. Students in organizational and public policy settings. will apply techniques to selected policy problems.

PAD 3800 Managing Global Cities – GL (3). Introduction PAD 4414 Personnel Skills for Administrators (3). The to principles of urban in order to manage general nature of public personnel administration; the specific development problems of global cities. development of the system; concepts and issues currently applicable at the federal, state, and local PAD 3802 Introduction to Urban and Regional Studies levels of government. – GL (3). An integrated approach to the problems and prospects of metropolitan areas with emphasis on PAD 4432 Administrative Leadership and Behavior (3). economic, political, social and administrative facets of the Designed to expose students to a systematically related urban setting. set of concepts for diagnosing human behavior in organizations; and to establish a positive value for the PAD 3804 Government and Administration of analysis of problems involving people, structure, Metropolitan Areas (3). An intensive analysis of environment, task technology, and situational climate. administrative problems in large complex urban areas encompassing many political entities. Examines PAD 4442 Public Relations for Public Managers (3). overlapping relations among with special Surveys the government mass communication media attention given to Miami-Dade as well as current relationship and then concentrates on the ways in which trends in public management and future directions for public managers handle media relations. Emphasis is change. placed on questions of information handling unique to public organizations. PAD 3834 International Comparative Administration (3). This course is an introduction to a wide range of PAD 4603 Administrative (3). Surveys the principles scholarly and practical ‘applied’ interests. Emphasis is on of law from the perspective of the public administrator; institution-building and development administration, administrative procedure; procedural due process; particularly within the Third World countries. delegation of legislative power; regulatory administration; conflict-of-interest statutes, etc. PAD 4046 Values, Ethics, and Conflict Resolution (3). Theories of value: ethical systems and their influence on PAD 4704 Applied for Policy & Management administration, behavior and process; the administrator as (3). Familiarize students with the basic approaches to an ethical actor; value conflict and resolution; the social research as applied in public and service settings. philosophical basis of American thought. Emphasis on techniques for organizing and presenting data for policy and management. PAD 4103 Politics of Administrative Organization (3). The role of political processes in relationship to public PAD 4712 IT and E-government for Public Managers organizations and the types of intra-and inter- (3). Surveys personal and societal value assumptions in organizational politics which are unique to public the context of the technological society. Examines organizations. Effects of these political processes upon organizational societal value structures, and the ways in organizational performance and their role in promoting or which technology creates rapid change and new inhibiting organizational change. alternatives in values. Interrelationship of the past, present, and future is explored.

610 Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 PAD 4713 Computer Applications for Urban Services practice, and the important skills of communicating with (3). The study of computer applications for administrative decision makers are included. analysis of financial and program data with emphasis on PAD 5416 Social Equity and Human Resource design, interface, and data structures. Management (3). The course deals with the human PAD 4723 Applied Research Methods for Policy & issues arising from equity and Management (3). Research design, sampling, critical affirmative action requirements in the workplace. evaluation, basic research ethics, and qualitative and PAD 5427 Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector quantitative methods and analysis. Must be taken in first (3). The course deals with the nature and implications of 12 hours of upper-division coursework. collective bargaining for managers and employees in (and PAD 4905 Independent Study in Public Administration students of) public organizations. The course emphasizes (1-6). (Normally 3 credit hours) Individual conferences, similarities and differences between the private and public supervised readings; reports on personal investigations; sectors, as they apply to collective bargaining. and similar undertakings. Prerequisites: Senior standing PAD 5435 Administration and the Role of Women (3). and approval of the faculty member supervising the The course is designed for women and men who are independent study. interested in moving into management positions, or who PAD 4934 Integrative Seminar in Public Administration have done so and want to broaden their understanding of (3). Students will integrate coursework and theory into the the changing role of women. Classes will allow for analysis of a public policy or public management problem experimental as well as academic exploration of the and produce a capstone paper. Must be taken in a issues. The course will also explore design, student's final semester. Prerequisites: Successful implementation, and evaluation of affirmative action completion of required courses and a total of at least 108 programs. credits. PAD 5443 The Public Administrator and Media PAD 4940 Public Administration Internship (0-12). Relations (3). Surveys the government-mass (Normally 3 credit hours) Supervised work experience in a communication media relationship, and then concentrates public or quasi-public organization. Involves a variety of on the ways in which public managers handle media professional and technical job duties depending on the relations. Emphasis throughout is placed on questions of agency. May be repeated. Prerequisites: Successful information-handling unique to public organizations, completion of required courses in public administration involving, for example, adherence to Florida’s Sunshine and approval of internship coordinator. Law and the Federal Freedom of Information Act.

PAD 4949 Cooperative Education (3). Supervised work PAD 5460 Productivity Improvement (3). Provides experience in public or quasi-public organization. measures to improve organizational and worker Placement is made through the Office of Cooperative productivity using applied behavioral science. Education. Prerequisites: Completion of required courses PAD 5616 Contracting and Managing Third Party in public administration and consent of Chair required. (3). Analyzes the legal foundations, PAD 5041 Values and Technology in Modern Society administrative and economic characteristics of (3). Surveys personal and societal value assumptions in government instrumentality's as they are used to pursue the context of the technological society. Examines public policy. Analyzes how and why different organizational-societal value structures, and the ways in combinations of instrumentality's are used in different which technology creates rapid change and new policy areas. alternatives in values. Also interrelationship of the past, PAD 5660C Applied Legal Context of Public present and future is explored, through futurism and Administrators (3). An overview of constraints and techniques. latitude the legal system grants to public administrators PAD 5043 Government and Minority Group Relations and managers. Provides the applied legal information (3). Explores the pressing contemporary issue of the required to make effective decisions in the public sector. relationship between government and minorities. PAD 5661C Management of Court-Agency Relations Examines the clash between established institutional (3). Examines applied judicial-administrative relations with values and minority group values, and surveys remedial particular emphasis on administrative policymaking. programs aimed at dealing with the problem. Comparative Covers the legal, environmental, and political factors that case studies will be used to analyze public agencies’ influence administrative strategies of policy and program internal relations with minorities (recruiting, selection, etc.), compliance. as well as their different responses to the minority groups they serve. PAD 5805 Economic Development and Urban Revitalization (3). This course is an interdisciplinary PAD 5256 and Cost Benefit examination of research and practice in contemporary Analysis (3). This course provides the quantitative and economic development, with emphasis on successful qualitative tools and case material to solve allocation implementation in a variety of settings. problems in the public sector. Applied microeconomic theory, economics, and market and government PAD 5934 Contemporary Issues in Public failure are analyzed as are the public alternatives Administration (3). An analysis of major conceptual available. Cost-benefit analysis, the ethics of applied issues currently facing public administrators. May be repeated for credit.

Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 Steven J Green School of International and Public Affairs 611 URP 5426 and Planning (3). This course focuses on the concepts, processes, and techniques associated with developing and implementing emergency management plans in public, nonprofit, and health organizations.

URS 3005 Service Learning: Social Change and Contemporary Social Issues (3). Examines volunteerism in America, provides study and experience of the Urban Community, promotes critical thinking, and social responsibility.

URS 4931 Current Topics in Urban and Regional Studies (3). In-depth exploration of current, critical topics in the urban arena. Emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches to local issues impacted by increased globalization and competition among cities and regions. May be repeated for credit.

URS 5645 Strategic Planning in Public and Non-Profit Organizations (3). This course exposes students to the concepts associated with strategic planning of public and nonprofit organizations and provides them with practical experience in their use.

URS 5647 Continuous Quality Improvement (3). This course provides an in-depth exposure to the concepts, principles, and techniques associated with continuous quality improvement (CQI) applied to public, nonprofit, and health organizations.