Public Administration and Policy, Courses Summer 2000

Summer 2000 Course Descriptions
Key to Course Descriptions

Courses listed below are approved UA courses as of Summer 2000. Not all approved courses will be offered during this term. For course offerings/availability during a specific term, see the Schedule of Classes. Each course number below links to the Schedule of Classes.

Public Administration and Policy (PA ) Dept Info - College Info

PA 204 Introduction to the Analysis of Data for Decision Making (3) I II Informal and exploratory approaches to the analysis of empirical data in a managerial context.

PA 206 Public Policy and Administration (3) II P, POL 201. (Identical with POL 206, which is home).

PA 221 Health, Human Services and Public Management (3) II This course will provide a general survey of significant issues in the health, human services and public management fields. Secondary emphasis will be placed on how policy is made and implemented in the three subject areas. The use of and interpretation of data and practical examples will be stressed. (Identical with SOC 221).

PA 241 Criminal Justice Administration (3) I II Theory and practice of criminal justice organizations: police, courts and correctional institutions. (Identical with SOC 241).

PA 299 Independent Study (1-3) [Rpt./]

PA 321 Health Care Policy and Institutions (3) I Examines public policy issues in health including recent developments in health policy and planning at the national, state and local levels and their impacts on administrative behavior.

PA 341 Juvenile Delinquency (3) I II (Identical with SOC 341, which is home).

PA 342 Criminology (3) I II (Identical with SOC 342, which is home).

PA 343 The Crime Problem (3) I Theory and research on the nature, causes and control of crime from an interdisciplinary perspective. (Identical with SOC 343).

PA 344 Legal Aspects of the Criminal Justice Process (3) I II Analysis of selected principles of criminal law, criminal procedure and correctional law. (Identical with SOC 344).

PA 350 Politics and the Health Care System (3) II (Identical with POL 350, which is home).

PA 399 Independent Study (1-3)

PA 400 Quantitative Methods for Administrators (3) I S Quantitative techniques and their applications. Equations and their graphs, systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, linear programming; fundamental probability, expected value; functions and limits, applications of differential calculus.

PA 405 Program Planning and Evaluation (3) I Introduces processes of program planning and evaluation in the public and non-profit sectors. Includes goals setting and needs assessment methods, and quantitative and qualitative techniques of program analysis and evaluation. P, MAP 376, ECON 376, or MKTG 376.

PA 406 Bureaucracy, Politics, and Policy (3) I P, POL 201. (Identical with POL 406, which is home).

PA 410 Introduction to Public and Nonprofit Financial Management (3) I II Issues and techniques of financial management and budgeting in the public and nonprofit sectors. P, ACCT 200.

PA 416 Health, Ethics and Public Policy (3) II Dealing with ethical and public dimension of health care. Policy issues include who pays for health care, who can have assess to health care and the implications of for-profit health care provision will be discussed. (Identical with SOC 416). May be convened with PA 516.

PA 422 Introduction to Health Economics (3) II Applies microeconomic theory, industrial organization and public finance to efficiency and equity problems in the acute and chronic health-care sectors and explores solutions to these problems at an introductory level. (Identical with ECON 422).

PA 424 Management of Long Term Care Facilities and Programs (3) II Problems and principles of management of facilities and community based programs providing health and social services to the chronically impaired. May be convened with PA 524.

PA 427 Aging and Public Policy (3) II Policy framework for administrators of programs, plans, priorities, and legislation related to the needs of the aging in modern society. (Identical with GERO 427). May be convened with PA 527.

PA 435 International Management (3) P, ECON 449. (Identical with MAP 435, which is home).

PA 441 Women and Youth in the Justice System (3) II Examines the treatment of juveniles and women in the American criminal justice system. (Identical with SOC 441).

PA 445 Institutional and Community Corrections (3) S After a history of the corrections system is presented, the course is an overview of trends and developments of both institutional (jails and prisons) and community corrections. Particular emphasis is placed on intermediate sanctions, the range of corrections from prison to probation. This is a temporary course offered only Summer II 2000.

PA 446 Crime and Public Policy (3) I II Role of government in the prevention and control of crime. (Identical with SOC 446). May be convened with PA 546.

PA 457 Law of the Elderly (3) II (Identical with GERO 457, which is home). May be convened with PA 557.

PA 470 Administration of Public Organizations (3) II Exploration of public organization theory and behavior in the context of issues confronting upper echelon public administrators on local, state and federal levels.

PA 473 Government and Economic Well-being (3) I II Writing Emphasis Course. P, POL 201. (Identical with POL 473, which is home). May be convened with PA 573.

PA 480 Formation of Public Policy (3) I Writing Emphasis Course. P, POL 201. (Identical with POL 480, which is home).

PA 481 Environmental Policy (3) II P, POL 201. (Identical with POL 481, which is home). May be convened with PA 581.

PA 491 Preceptorship (1-3) I II

PA 493 Internship (1-3) I II

PA 493L Legislative Internship (1-12) [Rpt./] I II

PA 498 Senior Capstone (1-3) I II

PA 498H Honors Thesis (3) [Rpt./ 2]

PA 499 Independent Study (1-6) [Rpt./]

PA 501 Public Organization Theory (3) I II Course focuses on understanding and analyzing interactions, effectiveness and complexities of organization structures.

PA 502 Public Management Information Systems (3) II Information systems technologies and policies in the public or nonprofit sectors. P, PA 501.

PA 503 Politics and the Policy Process (3) I Various theories of how public policy is formulated.

PA 504 Public and Policy Economics (3) II Applications of economics to the analysis of public policy and planning problems. (Identical with PLN 504).

PA 505 Methods for Program Evaluation (3) II Techniques for evaluating processes and outcomes of public sector and non-profit programs. P, MKTG 552 or consent of instructor.

PA 506 Bureaucracy, Politics, and Policy (3) I (Identical with POL 506, which is home). May be convened with PA 406.

PA 507 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution for Public Managers (3) II Emphasis will be on the role of public managers and the ways in which conflict resolution(CR) tools, processes and skills can assist them in carrying out their work as employees, as administrators, and as public servants.

PA 508 Public and Nonprofit Financial Management (3) I Financial management and budgeting in the public and nonprofit sectors; techniques and organizational issues.

PA 513 Government and the Nonprofit Sector (3) I In the past twenty years, governments have drastically altered the way they deliver public services. While government spending on services has grown, nonprofit organizations under contract to government increasingly deliver public services in health, welfare and many other areas. This course will map the dimensions of this new relationship; discuss the consequences of third party management of public services; and develop skills in contracting, monitoring and measuring performance.

PA 514 Analytic Methods in Planning and Strategic Management (3) II Methods and models for program planning and policy analysis; forecasting, service demand, facility location in capital investment programming, task sequencing, program analysis and evaluation. P, MKTG 552; GEOG 557 or consent of instructor. (Identical with GEOG 514, PLN 514).

PA 516 Health, Ethics and Public Policy (3) II For a description of course topics see PA 416. Graduate-level requirements include individual presentations. (Identical with SOC 516). May be convened with PA 416.

PA 517 Public Policy Analysis (3) I Introduction to theory and practice of public policy analysis. (Identical with PLN 517).

PA 521 Social Policy (3) I Design, implementation and outcomes of social policy initiatives in the U.S. and abroad. Themes include historical overview of antipoverty policy in the U.S., competing explanations for conditions of inequality, and examination of policy solutions. (Identical with SOC 521).

PA 522 Organizational Analysis of Health Care Systems (3) I Focuses on the organization and management of health care organizations and integrated health care systems, including implications for health care policy. Course methods will include lecture, readings, case studies, guest speakers, and class discussions.

PA 523 Health and Public Policy (3) II Examines public policy issues in health, including recent developments in health policy and planning at the national, state and local levels, and their impact on administrative behavior.

PA 524 Management of Long Term Care Facilities and Programs (3) II For a description of course topics see PA 424. Graduate-level students will be required to produce more papers for the class at administrative level. May be convened with PA 424.

PA 525 Current Topics in Health Services and Managed Care (3) I Examines many of the critical issues currently facing health care managers and policy makers. There will be a strong emphasis on managed care and service delivery in a managed care environment. The course is organized around a series of guest lectures presented by local and national leaders in health administration and policy. P, PA 522.

PA 526 Health Economics (3) I Applies microeconomic theory, industrial organization and public finance to efficiency and equity problems in the acute and chronic health-care sectors. Explores solutions to these problems. (Identical with ECON 526).

PA 527 Aging and Public Policy (3) II For a description of course topics see PA 427. Graduate-level students will be required to produce more papers for the class at higher level. (Identical with GERO 527). May be convened with PA 427.

PA 528 Topics in Public and Nonprofit Financial Management (3) II Advanced issues in public-sector financial management. (Identical with FIN 528).

PA 530 Aging and Social Sciences (3) I (Identical with GERO 530, which is home).

PA 540 Correctional Policy and Theory (3) II Theories of crime applied to public policy issues. The relationship between scientific analysis of crime and formation of public policy. (Identical with LAW 540, SOC 540).

PA 541 Deviance and Social Control (3) I II (Identical with SOC 541, which is home).

PA 543 White Collar and Organizational Crime (3) I The nature and distribution of white collar and organizational crime. Sociological and economic explanations for crime in organizational settings. Societal response and control mechanisms. (Identical with MAP 543, SOC 543).

PA 546 Crime and Public Policy (3) [Rpt./ 6 units] I II For a description of course topics see PA 446. Graduate-level requirements include additional reading and paper along with facilitation of a class. (Identical with SOC 546). May be convened with PA 446.

PA 557 Law of the Elderly (3) II (Identical with GERO 557, which is home). May be convened with PA 457.

PA 573 Government and Economic Well-being (3) I II (Identical with POL 573, which is home). May be convened with PA 473.

PA 580B Management & Organization Theory: Organizations in Their Environments (3) II P, MAP 305 or MAP 502. MAP 580A is not prerequisite to MAP 580B. (Identical with MAP 580B, which is home).

PA 581 Environmental Policy (3) II (Identical with POL 581, which is home). May be convened with PA 481.

PA 593 Internship (1-6) [Rpt./] I II

PA 595G Public Policy (3) I II (Identical with POL 595G, which is home).

PA 596I Management and Policy for Ecological Sustainability (3) [Rpt./ 1] I II (Identical with POL 596I, which is home).

PA 599 Independent Study (1-6) [Rpt./]

PA 696F Ph.D. Seminar in Public Management (3) I Course focuses on a review and discussion of major works and streams of thought that have guided the evolution of the study of public administration and management. Introductory seminar for all new doctoral students entering the department's Ph.D. program. (Identical with MAP 696F, POL 696F).

PA 699 Independent Study (1-3) I II

PA 900 Research (1-9) I II

PA 910 Thesis (1-6) I II

PA 920 Dissertation (1-9) I II

PA 930 Supplementary Registration (1-9) I II

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