Public Administration Discipline Courses Details
P A 301 : Public Administration and Democracy
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with PLSI 301. For course description, see PLSI 301. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 370 : Introduction to Non-profit Administration
| Prerequisites: | Upper division standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with RPT 370. For course description, see RPT 370. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 400 : Public Policy Process
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent and upper division standing. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with PLSI 400. For course description, see PLSI 400. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
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| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2012 |
P A 570 : Developing and Managing Resources in Non-profit Agencies
| Prerequisites: | RPT 370 or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with RPT 570. For course description, see RPT 570. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) [CSL may be available; consult index for page reference.] |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 582 : Community and Economic Development
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 and upper division standing. |
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| Description: | Examines theory and practice of community and economic development, primarily in the domestic urban context. Tools, best practices, current initiatives, strategies, and policies are emphasized. Paired with PA 782. Students who have completed PA 582 may not take PA 782 for credit. |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 700 : Introduction to Public Administration and Public Policy
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in Public Administration Program or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Introduction to the discipline of public administration and concepts in public administration, nonprofit administration and public policy. History and theory of the field. Emphasis on basics of professional writing and oral presentations. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 705 : Design and Consumption of Research
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Course 1: Applications of research design and data analysis to problems in policy and administration in the public and non-profit sectors. First of a two-part sequence of courses. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 706 : Applied Data Analysis
| Prerequisites: | P A 705; graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Applications of data analysis to problems in policy and administration in the public and non-profit sectors. The second of a two-part sequence of courses. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 707 : Qualitative Data Analysis
| Prerequisites: | PA 705. |
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| Description: | Examination of techniques and approaches to the analysis of data that is qualitative in nature. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 708 : Qualitative Interviewing
| Prerequisites: | PA 705 or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of methods and protocols involved in conducting and analyzing interviews with qualitative results. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 709 : Logistic Regression
| Prerequisites: | PA 706 or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of logistic regression techniques and the interpretation of logistic regression analyses. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 715 : Policy Process and Civic Engagement
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Process and politics of policy making and implementation. Impact of economic, social, historical, legal, political, and administrative conditions. Interaction of citizens in civic engagement process. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 720 : Organization Design and Change Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Structures, goals, and behavior in organizations; focus upon organizational change and development. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 722 : Performance Management and Planning
| Prerequisites: | Graduating standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Contracting process from contracting agency and contractor perspectives, project management, alternative and traditional forms of service delivery. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 724 : ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in the Public Administration program or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Macro- and micro economic perspectives in society. Focus on application of tools in public policy decision making processes and economic impacts on public and nonprofit sectors. [Formerly P A 710.] |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 725 : Managing Human Capital
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Concepts, functions, issues, and skills associated with personnel management and human capital in public and non-profit organizations. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 727 : Program and Service Delivery
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Contracting process from contracting agency and contractor perspectives, project management, alternative and traditional forms of service delivery. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 730 : Resource Allocation and Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in MPA or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Budgeting process across governmental and non-profit sectors, political processes of budgeting. Budgeting, resource allocation, and budget analysis methods and computer applications. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 740 : Public Service Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Application of administrative and management systems to public and non-profit sector organizations. Assessment of new trends in the public service field. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 741 : Emerging Trends in the Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in PA Program or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | New trends, movements, and developments in the public and nonprofit sectors. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 742 : Strategic Public and Non-profit Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Management systems and techniques developed for performance and productivity improvement in the public and non-profit sectors. Focus upon strategic planning process and total quality management systems. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 743 : Collaborative Government
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of collaboration and networking in public affairs. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 744 : Nonprofits, Public Policy and Society
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Focus on the vital role of nonprofit organizations in today's society as well as on the public policies that affect and influence that role. (Cross listed with RPT 744. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 745 : Perspectives on Nonprofit Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Social policy roles, economic and political dimensions, and administrative issues for non-profit organizations. Regulation, governance, and organizational management issues. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 746 : Organizational Learning and Nonprofit Management
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of how nonprofit organizations can learn by using results of performance measurement and program evaluation to improve outcomes. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) [CSL may be available; consult index for page reference.] |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 747 : Organizational Ethics: Doing Good, Being Good
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of ethical behavior in nonprofit organizations; overview of ethical theories; discussion of ethical values relevant to nonprofit practitioners and nonprofit organizations; and review of a code of ethics for nonprofit organizations. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 748 : Negotiation and Compromise
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Focus upon methods and techniques of negotiation and compromise in conflicted situations. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 750 : Financial Management in the Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Theoretical and practical aspects of financial management in both public and non-profit organizations. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 751 : Pensions and Pension Administration
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Overview of major issues of state and local public retirement programs. Covers fundamental concepts and practices of pension management with special emphasis on pension benefit design, actuarial valuation and funding methods, financial reporting, and pension asset investment management. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 752 : Public Affairs and the Law
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Analyzes legal framework on which public administration is based, including administrative and constitutional law that directs administrators' actions and operations of public and nonprofit agencies. Provides non-technical competence in the constitutional and legal principles to which courts hold public administrators accountable. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 753 : Decision Making in the Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of decision making in different disciplines and their use in public policy making and agency decision making. Includes new research on ways individuals and organizations make policy decisions. Skill building on different techniques and tools for making public decisions. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 754 : Comparative Perspectives in the Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of public and nonprofit administrative and managerial processes across countries around the world. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 755 : Information and Knowledge in the Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Management and effective use of data, information and knowledge in public and nonprofit sectors. Focus upon the organization, maintenance, use and successful transfer of knowledge to enable organizations to succeed in strategic goals. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 756 : Data Mining and Visualization
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of current data movements with trends in data mining and visualization. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 757 : E-Government
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Overview and strategies for improving the development and effectiveness of public and nonprofit online services and information. Relevant policies and management issues. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 762 : Leading Change Across Sectors
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Contemporary leadership theory and practice with attention to the unique concerns of public service; applications of leadership to initiating and managing change across sectors. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 763 : Personal Leadership Development
| Prerequisites: | PA 720, PA 725, PA 762, or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Focus on personal development of leadership potential and style. (Plus-minus letter grading only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
P A 770 : Policy Analysis
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Policy analysis and program evaluation used by legislatures and public sector agencies. Policy models, cost benefit evaluation techniques, evaluation research methods. |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 775 : Program Evaluation
| Prerequisites: | PA 705, PA 706 (PA 706 may be concurrent), or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Evaluation design, measurement, impact analysis, project implementation and management, and the design and evaluation of requests for proposals and proposals themselves. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 776 : Environmental Policy
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Covers scope and theories of US and CA environmental policy. (Cross listed with GEOG 776. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 777 : Criminal Justice Administration
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of the managerial processes, problems and policies particular to criminal justice agencies-policy, court and corrections. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 780 : Urban Administration
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Administrative environment, governmental system and structure, administrative innovations, and decision making in urban government in the U.S. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2012 |
P A 781 : Sustainable Development in Cities
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Theories and strategies of sustainable urban development and management. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 783 : Urban Housing Policy
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Examination of urban housing policy in a comparative perspective across localities (e.g., cities, regions, states, countries). Analysis of trends in housing markets and evaluation of the outcome of alternative government policy choices. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 784 : Intergovernmental Relations
| Prerequisites: | Graduate status or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Focus on the relationships (competition, conflict, cooperation and stalemate) between various levels of government and other governmental /quasi-governmental institutions. Focus on political, administrative and managerial. (Cross listed with PLSI 784. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 790 : Systems Change in Public Service
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Exploration of theories, practice, and cases in public service systems change; development of strategies for change agents; focus on San Francisco cases in children, youth, and family services. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
P A 795 : Applied Field Experience
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing in PA program or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Applied, project-based agency experience. Student works with a public, nonprofit, or voluntary agency to gain specific, substantive research or other professional skills to complement the MPA curriculum. May be repeated and included in ATC for up to 3 units. |
| Units: | 1-3 |
P A 800 : Capstone Course in Public Administration
| Prerequisites: | Approved ATC; should be in last semester of program. |
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| Description: | Synthesizes the knowledge, skills, and abilities learned during the course of the student's program. Emphasis is on critical analysis of case studies, the student learning portfolio, and on completing the program's strategic assessment. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 803 : Public Affairs Internship
| Prerequisites: | Student in Public Administration Program, P A 700, and consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with P A 804. |
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| Description: | Professional work experience: students will work 300 hours in a public or nonprofit agency under the supervision of a faculty member and an on-site work supervisor. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 804 : Internship Seminar
| Prerequisites: | Student in Public Administration Program, P A 700, and consent of instructor. Must be taken concurrently with P A 803. |
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| Description: | Seminar to accompany P A 803. Critical reflection on their work experiences and how they contribute to their overall career goals, as well as development of a number of briefing papers related to issues in the workplace. (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 1 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 858 : Seminar in Environmental and Land Use Planning
| Prerequisites: | Graduate standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with GEOG 858. For course description, see GEOG 858. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) (Plus-minus letter grade only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
P A 890 : Master's Case Study Analysis
| Prerequisites: | Advancement to candidacy for M.P.A. degree and recommendation of major adviser. |
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| Description: | Case study analysis as the culminating experience option in fulfillment of the requirements for the master's degree. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 895 : Master's Project
| Prerequisites: | Advancement to candidacy (ATC) for the master's degree and consent of graduate adviser. |
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| Description: | ATC and Proposal for Culminating Experience Requirement forms must be approved by the Graduate Division before registration. (CR/NC; RP grading only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 897 : Research in Public Administration
| Prerequisites: | P A 895 or 898. |
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| Description: | Required for all students who have not completed P A 890, 895, or 898. May be repeated. Cannot be used in degree program. CR/NC grading only. |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 898 : Master's Thesis
| Prerequisites: | Advancement to candidacy (ATC) and consent of candidate's thesis committee. |
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| Description: | ATC and Proposal for Culminating Experience Requirement forms must be approved by the Graduate Division before registration. (CR/NC grading only.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
P A 899 : Independent Study
| Prerequisites: | Consent of graduate major adviser and supervising faculty member. |
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| Description: | Study is planned, developed, and completed under the direction of a faculty member. Open to graduate students who have demonstrated ability to do independent work. Enrollment by petition. May be repeated. |
| Units: | 1-3 |
