UA Courses | Public Administration and Policy

Fall 1999 Course Descriptions
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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. P, MATH 119.

PA 206. Public Policy and Administration (3) II P, POL 102. (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 345. Crime and Its Context (3) II Understanding and responding effectively to crime requires a familiarity with the contextual environments within which crime and its explanation occur. This course will focus on theoretical explanations of crime that account for both macro and micro levels of contextual relationships that mitigate or intensify the probability that a crime will occur. The student will be introduced to tests of criminological theory that are non-techncal in format, but will allow the student the knowledge to develop policy and programmatic recommendations based upon their understanding of crime and it's contextual environment.

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. P, open to graduate students only.

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 102. (Identical with POL 406, which is home). May be convened with PA 506.

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. P, ECON 300 or ECON 361; PA 321. (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) (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) II 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.

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 102. (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 102. (Identical with POL 480, which is home).

PA 481. Environmental Policy (3) II P, POL 102. (Identical with POL 481, which is home).

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 Organization Behavior (3) II Individual and group behavior in public and nonprofit organizations and their interactions with technology and structure. 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 Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation (3) II Techniques for analyzing the effects of public policies and 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. P, ECON 500.

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 Local Planning and 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.

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 Systems (3) I Introduces the student to the scope and nature of public and private health systems in the U.S.; examines roles of government and private enterprise in the development and operation of health institutions.

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. Comparative Management in Health Administration (3) I Assists students in applying general management principles to particular types of health agencies. Models of organizational behavior are used to develop a paradigm for comparative analysis. 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. P, PA 522; ECON 500 or consent of instructor. (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. P, PA 508; FIN 511. (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 P, SOC 341 or SOC 342; SOC 201. (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. Theory of Management and Organization: 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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