Administration Advanced reading, discussion, and research in personnel problems as seen in a public context. Completion of an individual research assignment and ten page paper required of each student May be repeated to a maximum of six credits with consent of instructor. PUA 719 Personnel Assessment and Selection Covers the legal and technical aspects of personnel selection. Concentrates on the assessment center process for diagnosing management skills and selection in the public sector. PUA 722 Quantitative And Qualitative Methods For Public Administration Quantitative and qualitative techniques used in program design and evaluation.
Coverage includes such topics as measurement, tests of significance, and measures of association.
Includes descriptive and inferential statistics and forecasting methods. PUA 701 or consent of instructor. PUA 725 Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation Focuses on a variety of methodologies useful for the analyses of proposed as well as ongoing policies and programs and the evaluation of their impacts on society. Also intended to provide students with the opportunity to develop research design to be used as a basis for the research necessary to produce the professional paper required for the M.P.A. degree. PUA 732 Political Economy Survey of the field of political economy since 1945 with emphasis on alternative theories of the role of government, value, and distribution.