Public Administration Major

Recommended Courses That Meet General Education Core Requirements

The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs strongly recommends that students address their General Education Core curriculum requirements through our college. The following classes offered in our college meet graduation requirements:

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

Additional Degree Requirements

• Public Administration Core Requirements - Total Credits: 21

• PUA 241 - Survey of Public Administration
• PUA 405 - Public Organizations
• PUA 410 - Research Methods for Public Administration
• PUA 420 - Public Personnel Administration
• PUA 421 - Computer Technology in Government
• PUA 422 - Leadership of Public Bureaucracies
• PUA 423 - Ethics in Public Administration
• PSY 450 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Evidence- Based Decision Making and Applied Skills - Total Credits: 6

• PUA 310 - Introduction to Policy Analysis
• PUA 410 - Research Methods for Public Administration

Public Administration Core Electives - Total Credits: 12

• PUA 250 - Local Government Administration
• PUA 403 - Risk Management in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors
• PUA 404 - Risk Assessment and Risk Management
• PUA 424 - Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
• PUA 425 - Public Budgeting and Finance
• PUA 440 - Intergovernmental Relations
• PUA 450 - Policy for Public Administrators

Guided Electives - Total Credits: 18

Eighteen credit hours must be taken from any of:

• AAP 100 - Introduction to Urban Planning

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• AAP 366 - History of Cities I

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• AAP 367 - History of Cities II

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• ACC 201 - Financial Accounting
• COM 102 - Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
• COM 217 - Argumentation and Debate
• COM 315 - Small Group Communication
• COM 317 - Organizational Communication
• COM 434 - Communication and Conflict Resolution
• CED 300 - Introduction to Human Services Counseling
• CRJ 104 - Introduction to Administration of Justice
• CRJ 432 - Criminal Justice Process
• CRJ 445 - Police Administration
• CRJ 460 - Public Policy, Crime, and Criminal Justice
• ECON 102 - Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 307 - Environmental Economics
• ECON 320 - Health Economics
• ECON 354 - Government and Business
• ECON 365 - Labor Economics
• ENV 202 - Environmental Regulations
• ENV 205 - Environment and Development
• ENV 377 - Environmental Economics
• ENV 407 - Environment and Society
• ENV 410 - Environmental Policy
• ENV 420 - Environmental Impact Analysis
• ENV 430 - Land Use Management
• ENV 460 - Environmental Modeling
• ENV 480 - Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Management
• PBH 320 - Public and Community Health
• MGT 465 - Collective Bargaining and Public Policy
• PSC 320 - Policy Analysis
• PSC 321 - Analyzing Policy Issues
• PSC 401A - Urban Politics
• PSC 401D - State Politics
• PSC 403A - Natural Resource Policy
• PSC 403B - Energy Politics and Policy
• PSY 464 - Group Process and Personal Growth
• PSY 465 - Small Group Behavior
• SOC 403 - Techniques of Social Research
• SOC 404 - Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences
• SOC 408 - Qualitative Research
• SOC 446 - Bureaucracy in Society

• (see note 2 below)

Other Electives - Total Credits: 23-27

Total Credits: 120

Notes

1. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements if they appear on the approved lists. However, one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.
2. Specific restrictions on courses fulfilling this requirement exist. See the General Education Core Requirement section of this catalog for additional information.