Major issues of administration and public agencies, such as personnel, finance, administrative law, and the growth and significance of governmental bureaucracy.
Athena Title
How Government Works
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in PADP 3000E
Prerequisite
POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101H or POLS 1101S
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will have the ability to apply abstract public administration principles to real-world scenarios by digesting readings, conducting analyses, and proposing feasible solutions.
Students will have the ability to empirically analyze public administration issues and to present the results of those explorations clearly, concisely, and in a compelling form in written and oral communication.
Students will have the ability to communicate and work within groups to solve complex problems.
Topical Outline
Democratic theory
The development of American public administration
Administrative organization
Political institutions: The overhead executive and the legislature
Other institutions: the courts, interest groups, the media, and the intergovernmental network
Decision making and the policy process
Bureaucratic politics and administrative processes
Bureaucratic power and democratic government
Administrative responsibility and democratic government
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
