Requirements and Details

Core Requirements

Code Course Title Units
PADM 313 Urban Environments 4
PADM 332 Public Administration 4
BUS 343 Foundations of Business Ethics 4
PADM 388 Statistics 4
PADM 469 Management of Change and Conflict 4
PADM 470 Administrative Processes 4
PADM 499 Senior Seminar 4

Electives

Students may take any combination of three additional courses from either of the elective areas below to meet their 40 semester hours in the major.

Area 1: The Policy and Institutional Context of Public Administration:
Code Course Title Units
PADM 314 Local Public Administration and Government, or
PLSC 416 State and Local Government and Politics 4
PADM 320 Federalism and the Administrative State, or
PLSC 301 American Government and Politics, or
PLSC 321 Political Parties and Interest Groups 4
PADM 436 Policy-Making Process 4
PLSC 304 Contemporary Legal Issues 4
PLSC 311 Development of American Democracy I 4
PLSC 312 Development of American Democracy II 4
PLSC 375 Contemporary Political Theory 4
PLSC 378 American Political Thought 4
PLSC 407 Constitutional Law 4
PLSC 410 Congress and the Presidency 4
Area 2: The Organizational and Management Context of Public Sector Administration:
Code Course Title Units
BUS 354 Oral Communication in Organization 4
BUS 410 Management Information Systems 4
MGMT 459 Organizational Behavior: Theory and Application 4
PADM 330 Labor/Management Negotiation in the Public Sector 4
PADM 368 Culture and Gender Issues in Management 4
MGMT 480 Communications in Management, or
BUS 346 Written Business Communication 4