Winter 2010 Course Offerings List

730 Public Finance 05

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
28129	TuTh	5:30-7:18PM	PA 0040	SELIGMAN,J
20634	TuTh	2:00-3:48PM	PA 0040	SELIGMAN,J
20635	TuTh	5:30-7:18PM	PA 0010	GREENBAUM,R

Comprehensive survey and analysis of the principle fiscal activities of contemporary government; logic of public sector activity, taxation principles and practice, intergovernmental relations and current fiscal problems. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 830 or Econ 501A and graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
Textbook: Gruber, Jonathan, Public Finance and Public Policy.
Syllabus: 730 Syllabus WI10 - Greenbaum

804 Public and Non-Profit Program Evaluation 04

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20637	M	1:30 - 3:48PM	PA 0040	BOARDMAN,C
20638	M	5:30 - 7:48PM	PA 0010	HECKMAN,A
28128	W	1:30-3:48PM	PA 0040	HECKMAN,A

Provides an understanding of the conceptual, methodological, bureaucratic, political, and organizational issues surrounding evaluation research. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 801.
Textbook: Carol H. Weiss (1997) Evaluation, Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Syllabus: 804 Syllabus WI10 - Boardman; 804 Design Guidelines WI10 - Boardman

809 Policy Problem Seminar 2 04

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20639	W	5:30-8:18PM	PA 0060	BROWN/HUBBARD/JASPER

Students will have an opportunity to engage in activities designed to foster skills related to the effective presentation of the analytic results to various stakeholders. Such written documents may include the following: executive summaries, policy memoranda, op-ed articles, constituent letters, written testimony, and press releases. Additionally, 809 will encompass a variety of communication modalities such as oral testimony, policy briefings, and press conferences. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 808.
Textbook:
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810 Managing Public Organizations 04

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20640	TuTh	12:30-1:48PM	PA 0040	MOULTON,S
20641	TuTh	4:00-5:18PM	PA 0040	MOULTON,S
20642	TuTh	7:30-8:48PM	PA 0040	WIRICK,D

This course is designed to enable you to diagnose problems and identify strategies to improve the performance and operation of public sector organizations. Through the course, you will acquire or hone some of the skills needed to be a successful manager in a rapidly changing public sector. We will focus primarily on public organizations in the United States, although we will also address strategic issues for private and non-profit organizations with public missions. We will build from the traditional strategic planning approach of identifying "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats" to examine the current "state of the art" in strategic management reform in the public sector.
Textbook: Harold Gortner, Kenneth Nichols and Carolyn Ball, Organization Theory: A Public and Nonprofit Perspective, 3rd edition Thomson Wadsworth, 2007.
Syllabus: 810 Syllabus WI10 - Moulton

822 Multivariate Data Analysis for Public Policy and Management 04

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20643	W	5:30-8:18PM	PA 0010	GREENBAUM, R

Introduction to types of problems encountered in public policy and management; problem formulation and basic research methods tools required to tackle them.
Textbook: Required: Damodar Gujarati and Dawn Porter, Essentials of Econometrics, 4th edition, McGraw Hill, ISBN-13: 9780073375847. Optional: (1) Paul D. Allison, Multiple Regression: A Primer, Pine Forge Press, ISBN: 0761985336. (2) Peter Kennedy, A Guide to Econometrics, 6E, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN: 9781405182577.
Syllabus: 822 Syllabus WI10 - Greenbaum

852 Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting 04

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20644	Th	5:30-8:18PM	PA 0020	ARMSTRONG,C

Fund accounting pertaining to federal, state, and local governments, colleges and universities, hospitals, health and welfare organizations.
Textbook: Ives, Johnson, Razek, and Hosch, Introduction to Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting, 6th edition, ISBN: 0-13-607209-7.
Syllabus: 852 Syllabus WI10 - Armstrong

880.02 Grants Policy and Administration 05

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
27406	Tu	6:30-9:18PM	PA 0020	GREEN/URBAN

This course will introduce students to the art of grant writing. Each student will be required to prepare a grant proposal for a public or nonprofit organization. The grant proposal can be targeted toward a variety of purposes (program, planning, demonstration, research, training, and organizational structures).
Textbook: Jeremy Miner and Lynn Miner, Proposal Planning and Writing, 4th edition, Greenwood Press, ISBN: 978-0-313-35674-2.
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880.05 Markets or Mandates: The Political Economy of Regulation, Deregulation, and Reregulation 05

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20645	M	4:00-6:48PM	PA 0240	JONES/SCHRIBER

The economic regulation of industries and business activities has been a major governmental practice in the U.S. for over a century. Social regulation – importantly including environmental regulation – has been especially salient over the past forty years. The broad goals for both are consumer protection and an enhanced quality of life. In the last twenty-five years, however, there has been a reexamination of how best to achieve these goals – specifically when and where to employ various market competition mechanisms to replace direct intervention and oversight. The result has been perhaps a paradigm shift to relaxed regulation (sometimes deregulation) and major reliance on markets in the utility (energy and telecommunications) and banking fields. This course examines the strengths and limitations of each approach, the occasion for and evolution of their policy development, and the prospects for regulation, deregulation, and re-regulation in the U.S. economy.
Textbook: UniPrint Reading Packet
Syllabus: 880.05 Syllabus WI10 - Jones/Schriber

880.06 Issues in the Nonprofit Sector: Theory and Practice 05

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20648	M	5:30-8:18PM	PA 0020	MOULTON,S

The nonprofit sector is a critical part of public management and policy in the United States. This course will provide students with a broad overview of the nonprofit sector, exploring the sector’s historical development, theoretical underpinnings and role in U.S. society and elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on current trends and challenges facing the contemporary nonprofit sector, including (but not limited to) philanthropic giving, public-private partnerships, regulation and tax policy. Students will be expected to actively engage with the course materials, participating in and leading discussion, synthesizing the materials through reflective assignments, and applying material learned to an analysis of a selected nonprofit organization.
Textbook:Required: (1) Frumkin, Peter. (2002) On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (2) Crutchfield, Leslie and Heather McLeod Grant. (2008) Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Nonprofits. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Optional: (Handbook) Powell, Walter & Richard Steinberg. (2006) The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Syllabus: 880.06 Syllabus WI10 - Moulton

880.06 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector 05

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20649	Th	2:30-5:18PM	PA 0010	WIRICK, D.

The course is designed to enable students to both diagnose problems and opportunities facing public
sector organizations and to begin to identify and develop strategies for improving organizational
performance and enhancing their ability to be an innovator in their organizations and careers. The course
is intended to appeal to students with a broad array of experience and interests in the management of
public sector organizations. As such, the course may appeal to students interested in managing
organizations that deliver goods and services in a variety of sectors (e.g. the arts, health services,
environmental services, science and technology) and those students who have an interest in introducing
innovation into their organizations and performing entrepreneurially.
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890 Ph.D. Seminar on Logic of Inquiry 03

Class Number	Days	Time	Building/Room	Instructor
20652	M	9:30AM-12:18PM	PA 0240	DESAI,A

The student will learn to differentiate simple economic and public policy models, manipulate the derivatives to perform comparative statistics analysis and understand the significance of the results.
Textbook: Parsons, Keith (2006) Copernican Questions: A Concise Invitation to the Philosophy of Science, Boston: McGraw Hill.
Syllabus: 890 Syllabus WI10 - Desai

893 Individual Studies 01-06

Class Number	Days	Time
20653, Boardman 20654, Brown 20655, Cowley 20656, Desai 20657, Ford 20659, Greenbaum 20660, Haurin 20661, Hawley 27402, Heckman 28296, Jasper 20662, Keeler 20663, Koontz 20665, Landsbergen 20666, Malecki 20667, Mangum 20669, Merritt 20670, Moulton 20671, Peterson 20672, Seligman 20673, Shane 20674, Shkurti 20675, Tanenbaum 20676, Wali 20677, Weinberg 20678, Wirick 20679, Wise 20680, Wyszomirski	TBA-	TBA-

Advanced individual studies in public policy and management. This course is graded S/U. All students must complete an Independent Study Form and submit it to 110 Page Hall.

999 Research in Public Administration: Dissertation 01-15

Class Number	Days	Time
27403, Boardman 20682, Brown 20683, Desai 20684, Greenbaum 20685, Keeler 20686, Landsbergen 27404, Moulton 20687, Seligman 20688, Wise	TBA-	TBA-

Research for dissertation purposes only. Repeatable to a maximum of 45 credit hours. This course is graded S/U.

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Winter 2010 Course Offerings List

For additional information on courses, please contact the Student Affairs Staff at 614.292.8696

Gray = Core Master Courses

Blue = Policy Labs

Tan = Ph.D. Courses

Winter 2010 Course Offerings List

For additional information on courses, please contact the Student Affairs Staff at
614.292.8696