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Masters Degree

Courses Offered in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The following courses are available for your Masters Degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Core Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Economics for Public Policy

  • This course addresses the evolving nature of the American experiment in democratic government. It teaches you the theory and the basics of American political science, the political history of this nation, and provides the critical thinking skills needed to analyze these evolving relationships.

  • 6 Credits

  • Government and Public Planning

  • This course is a complete introduction to American Government and the discipline of Political Science. It is built around a simple goal to make you effective participant in political culture by making them informed consumers of that culture. This course help you understand why government and politics matter.

  • 6 Credits

  • American Politics

  • This balanced and exceedingly readable course uses Harold Laswell's classic definition of politics-"Who gets what, when, and how"-as a framework for presenting a clear, concise, and stimulating introduction to the American political system. The course explores timely issues and opinions, draw cross-cultural comparisons, and introduce important people.

  • 6 Credits

  • Ethics

  • Evenly balanced between theory and applications, this course shows you how to establish an ethical theory and how to apply it to a range of specific moral issues. This course examines ethical problems in such areas as mercy killing, personal relations, business, sexuality, medicine, and the environment.

  • 6 Credits

  • Politics and Public Administration

  • This course focuses on public management and public policy. Covers new and emerging theories of governance; define basic values and ideas of public administration and public policy formulation in United States. It covers the gamut of subjects, including bureaucracy, history, personalities, ethics, and problems in public administration and management.

  • 6 Credits
Specialized Course

Economics for Public Policy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Approaching democracy
    The founding and the constitution
    Federalism
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Congress
    The presidency
    The judiciary
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The bureaucracy
    Public opinion
    Political parties
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Participation, voting, and elections
    Interest groups
    The media
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Civil liberties
    Civil rights and political equality
    Domestic and economic policy
    Foreign policy

Government and Public Planning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Constitutional democracy
    The living constitution
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    American federalism
    Political culture and ideology
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The american political landscape
    Interest groups: the politics of influence
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Political parties: essential to democracy
    Public opinion, participation, and voting
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Campaigns and elections: democracy in action
    The media and american politics
    Congress: the people's branch
    The presidency: the leadership branch
    The federal administrative system: executing the laws
    The judiciary: the balancing branch
    First amendment freedoms
    Rights to life, liberty, and property
    Equal rights under the law

American Politics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Politics: who gets what, when, and how.
    Political culture: ideas in conflict.
    The constitution: limiting governmental power.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Federalism: dividing governmental power.
    Opinion and participation: thinking and acting in politics.
    Mass media: setting the political agenda.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Political parties: organizing politics.
    Campaigns and elections: deciding who governs.
    Interest groups: getting their share and more.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Congress: politics on capitol hill.
    The president: white house politics.
    The bureaucracy: bureaucratic politics.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Courts: judicial politics.
    Politics and personal liberty.
    Politics and civil rights.
    Politics and the economy.
    Politics and social welfare.
    Politics and national security.

Ethics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    What is morality?
    Consequentialist -teleological- theories of morality
    Nonconsequentialist -deontological- theories of morality
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Virtue ethics
    Absolutism versus relativism
    Freedom versus determinism
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Reward and punishment
    Setting up a moral system: basic assumptions and basic principles
    The taking of human life
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing
    Abortion
    Lying, cheating, breaking promises, and stealing
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Morality, marriage, and human sexuality
    Bioethicsethical issues in medicine
    Business and media ethics
    Environmental ethics

Politics and public administration

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Big democracy, big bureaucracy
    Public administration and rsquo;s century in a quandary
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The threads of organization: theories
    The fabric of organizations: forces
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The fibers of organizations: people
    Clarifying complexity: the public and rsquo;s information resource
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Corruption and rsquo;s consequence: public productivity
    The public trough: financing and budgeting governments
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing human resources in the public sector
    Understanding and improving public policy
    Intersectoral administration
    Intergovernmental administration
    Toward a bureaucratic ethic

Advanced concepts in Policy and Politics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A changing america in a changin world
    The american constitution
    The federal system
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Public opinion
    Political participation
    Interest groups
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Political parties
    Elections
    Congress
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The presidency
    The federal bureaucracy
    The federal courts
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic policymaking
    Regulatory policymaking
    Civil liberties policymaking
    Civil rights policymaking
    Foreign and defense policymaking

Government planning and management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introducing government in america.
    The constitution.
    Federalism.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Civil liberties and public policy.
    Civil rights and public policy.
    Public opinion and political action.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The mass media and the political agenda.
    Political parties.
    Nominations and campaigns.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Elections and voting behavior.
    Interest groups.
    Congress.
    The presidency.
    The congress, the president, and the budget: politics of taxing and spending.
    The federal bureaucracy.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The federal courts.
    Economic policy making.
    Social welfare policymaking.
    Policymaking for healthcare and the environment.
    National security policy making.
    The new face of state and local government.

Public Policy Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining public policy
    The study of public policy
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The public policymaking system
    Formal policy development
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Policy analysis and program evaluation
    The doctrinal approach to understanding public policy
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic policy
    Education policy
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Environmental policy
    Welfare policy
    Civil rights policy
    Foreign defense policy
    Criminal justice policy
    Health care policy

State and Local Government

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    State and local politics: who governs?
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    American federalism.
    State constitutions: charters or straitjackets?
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Parties and elections in the states.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    State legislatures.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    State governors.
    Judges and justice in the states.
    Local government and metropolitics.
    Making state and local policy.
    Staffing and financing state and local governments.

Public Administration

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Public sector issues and private sector contrasts.
    Public-private joint ventures: coordinating the organized anarchy.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ethics and an incentive program.
    Professionalism and organizational values.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Recruiting the ideal assistant: conflicting models and motivations.
    Job changes: personnel mobility.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Disciplining professionals in the public agency.
    Organizational analysis and budget formats.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Implementing a budget decision.
    Rational quantitative analysis and political realities.
    Setting revenue rates: yield and impact.
    The distinction between leadership and management.
    Clients: sorting through layers of entitlement and expectation.
    Organizational politics and decision making.
    Promulgating a controversial administrative order: administrative law in the making.

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