Course Description
Major issues of administration and public agencies, such as personnel, finance, administrative law, and the growth and significance of governmental bureaucracy.
Athena Title
Introduction to Public Admin
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in PADP 3000
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
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
- By the end of this course, students will have the ability to apply abstract public administration principles to real-world scenarios by digesting readings, conducting analyses, and proposing feasible solutions.
- By the end of this course, 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.
- By the end of this course, 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
