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Undergraduate Diploma

Courses Offered in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The following courses are available for your Undergraduate Diploma. 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.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Fundamentals of Urban Planning

  • This course provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology, and urban studies courses. Primarily sociological in approach, this course incorporates historical, social psychological, geographical, and anthropological insights. It also gives extensive attention to the "new" political economy approach to urban studies.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Public Policy

  • This course is designed to provide you with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.

  • 6 Credits

  • Research Methods in Public Administration

  • Taking into consideration the four basic approaches to behavioral research (descriptive research, correlational research, experimental research, and quasi-experimental research), this course demonstrates you how to conceptualize question, measure variables, design studies, and analyze data. Ethical issues are also addressed in order to learn more about behavioral research.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to International Relations

  • This course analyzes the major theoretical perspectives in the field of international relations. You will study the mainstream realist and liberal approaches and explore theoretical alternatives to these paradigms. The relationship between theory and practice is also examined.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Public Administration

  • This course provides you with solid conceptual foundation in public administration and contains latest information on trends in the discipline. Project management focus will incorporate the general principles, practices, tools and resources associated with managing diverse projects within the public sector.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Public Relations

  • This course will give you an opportunity to analyze how the public relations process is carried out through different public relations specializations. It examines what PR is, and how it has evolved. It looks at key areas of PR practice and specialization, and discusses concepts and skills basic to PR.

  • 6 Credits

Fundamentals of Urban Planning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Exploring the city
    The origins and development of the world and rsquo;s cities
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The development of north american cities
    Cities and suburbs of the twenty-first century
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Urban sociology: classic and modern statements
    Social psychology: the urban experience
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geography and spatial perspectives: making sense of space
    Comparative urbanism: the city and culture
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The new urban sociology: the city and capitalism
    Stratification and social class: urban and suburban lifestyles
    Race, ethnicity, and gender: urban diversity
    Housing, education, crime: confronting urban problems
    Cities in the developing world
    Planning the urban environment

Introduction to Public Policy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Policy analysis: what governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes.
    Models of politics: some help in thinking about public policy.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The policymaking process: decision-making activities.
    Criminal justice: rationality and irrationality in public policy.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Health and welfare: the search for rational strategies.
    Education: the group struggle.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic policy: incrementalism at work.
    Tax policy: battling the special interests.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    International trade and immigration: elite-mass conflict.
    Environmental policy: externalities and interests.
    Civil rights: elite and mass interaction.
    American federalism: institutional arrangements and public policy.
    Defense policy: strategies for serious games.
    Homeland security: terrorism and non-detterable threats.
    Policy evaluation: finding out what happens after a law is passed.

Research Methods in Public Administration

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Research in the behavioral sciences.
    Behavioral variability and research.
    The measurement of behavior.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Approaches to psychological measurement.
    Descriptive research.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Correlational research.
    Advanced correlational strategies.
    Basic issues in experimental research.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Experimental design.
    Analyzing experimental data.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Analyzing complex designs.
    Quasi-experimental designs.
    Single-case research.
    Ethical issues in behavioral research.
    Scientific writing.

Introduction to International Relations

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The globalization of international relations
    Power politics
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Alternatives to power politics
    Foreign policy
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    International conflict
    Military force and terrorism
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    International organization, law, and human rights
    International trade
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Money and business
    International integration
    Environment and population
    The north-south gap
    International development

Introduction to Public Administration

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining public administration
    The continuous reinventing of the machinery of government
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Intergovernmental relations
    Honor, ethics, and accountability
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The evolution of management and organization theory
    Organizational behavior
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managerialism and performance management
    Strategic management in the public sector
    Leadership
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Personnel management and labor relations
    Social equity
    Public financial management
    Program audit and evaluation

Introduction to Public Relations

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Martha stewarts rise, fall and resurrection
    The tylenol murders
    Wal-marts war to regain its reputation
    Dress for success: the nba cleans up its image
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Exxon corporations bad good friday
    Ketchum captured in pay-for play ethical lapse
    Winning a national venue for eminent domain
    Researching a position for alan louis genera
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Bagging the elusive exclusive
     60 minutes and the american bankers association
    Employee communication
    Harvard university and lawrence summers
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The katrina kalamity
    Tobacco wars
    Karen hughes stumbles selling uncle sam
    The raina, inc. news conference
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reviving the bryant brand -kobe bryant-
    Wassup jeans
    Wendys finger hoax

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