Public Affairs
Required Courses (12 hours)
PA 3310 Public Administration (3 semester hours) Overview of management responsibilities, functions, and activities in government agencies within the framework of political values and organization dynamics. (Same as GOVT 3310.) (3-0) Y
PA 3314 Financial Management (3 semester hours) Financial accounting, control, and management for efficient and effective resource use within public and nonprofit organizations. (3-0) T
PA 3333 Human Resources Management (3 semester hours) Leadership, motivation, decision making, conflict resolution, performance, and other important challenges of personnel management in government organizations. (3-0) T
PA 4312 Organizations (3 semester hours) Study of the structures and dynamics of organizations. Examines problems of motivation, leadership, morale, networks, communications, hierarchy, control, and technology. (Same as SOC 4340) (3-0) T
And one from the following:
PA 3335 Organizational Behavior (3 semester hours) Power, conflict, consensus, and other dynamic behaviors within and between public organizations, and between organizations and their constituents. (3-0) T
PA 4351 Urban Management (3 semester hours) Examination of ways in which the fiscal and administrative policies of local government shape the structure of opportunities and incentives in urban areas. (3-0) R
PA 4360 Ethics in Public Administration (3 semester hours) Examines the relationship between ethical choices and the decision-making of public managers. The ethics of organizational policies and public policies are also examined. (3-0) R
And one from the following:
ECO 3370 The Global Economy (3 semester hours) Considers the changing relationships of population, resources, and the economy, the transformation of classical spatial economies, and the processes producing increasing globalization. Particular attention is paid to technological change and to the dynamics of world trade and investment. This course is also recommended for students who are not economics majors. (Same as GEOG 3370.) (3-0) T
ECO 3385 Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 semester hours) Application of the principles of welfare economics to analysis of the efficiency and distributional impacts of government action. Theoretical foundations and related techniques for measuring and assessing the impacts of different policies and programs. Prerequisite: ECO 3310. (3-0) T
ECO 4342 Public Policies Toward Business (3 semester hours) Analysis of the economic rationale for government intervention in markets. The course considers direct intervention in the form of price, entry, and/or product quality directives, the economic welfare foundations of public utility economics, and the theory of regulation and deregulation, including indirect regulation through antitrust laws. Topics include collusion, price discrimination, vertical restraints, and other attempts to monopolize a market. Prerequisite: ECO 3310. (3-0) T
GOVT 3326 Politics and Business (3 semester hours) An investigation of the role played by business in American politics. Particular attention will be focused on the regulatory process and the changing relationship between business and government in it. (-0) R
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