A graduate level management course focusing on the most significant tenets of management, including those that differentiate a non-profit organization from others. Theory and practice will be included. Students will select a nonprofit organization to explore and evaluate specific management functions.

This class provides students with an understanding of the political systems of and the implementation of policy in nations around the world. We begin by comparing the political system and the bureaucracies of the U.S. and Canada, which will serve as the backdrop for learning relevant concepts from modern political science and public administration. Having mastered these concepts, we will then use them to examine Mexico, Brazil, the People's Republic of China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, and finally, the European Union as an entity.

This course will provide an overview of current policy issues in education. The course will cover basic education policy issues with a particular emphasis on the economics and policy analytic perspectives. Many of the issues will be examined both conceptually and empirically and will expose the student to policy evaluation tools and techniques. We will examine questions such as why schooling is provided publicly in the U.S., look at ways to evaluate the current quality of schooling, and think about reform alternatives.

Principles, practices and applications of applied welfare analysis are the content of this course. The basic theory of benefit-cost analysis is presented and the relevance of implementation analysis in policy analysis is established.

This course provides an opportunity for students to integrate the Master of Public Administration, Public Policy or Financial Management degree curriculum in an analysis of an applied management or policy problem. It is expected that students will produce papers applying different elements of the curriculum in an analysis of their internship or professional experiences.

Economic and political foundations of policy analysis are considered in a survey fashion, followed by specific techniques used in the practice of policy analysis.

Maximum likelihood estimation, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, instrumental variables (IV) regression, heteroscedasticity-consistent regression, fixed and random effects models, probit, logit and tobit models, and identification and two-state least squares estimation of simultaneous equations models.

This course is for students participating in a public administration field experience. To register for the course, students must work with their internship supervisor to complete a departmental learning contract. The contract must be submitted to the Student Affairs Officer within two weeks of the beginning of the field experience. Controlled enrollment; contact student affairs officer to register.

This course takes a balanced practitioner approach to the problems of the environment and environmental regulation. Efficiency aspects will be developed carefully, so as to provide a background for an extensive coverage of various available alternate policies.

This course examines public budgeting and finance in the public sector. Included is an analysis of economic, managerial, and political approaches to public budgeting and finance. These approaches are then used to analyze several current topics in public finance.