In addition to the nine core seminars, students are required to complete a minimum of nine credits of elective courses or independent studies at the college, other City University units, or other colleges and universities in the metropolitan area. These courses are chosen under the guidance of the student s educational advisor. The three core courses which are taken each term by all entering Doctoral Candidates during their first year of residency in the program will be offered on Tuesdays .
Schedules are subject to change at any time.
An emphasis is placed on understanding organizational theory and its implication to the operations of complex organizations in the public and voluntary sectors. Through extensive reviews of current and classic readings in administrative theory, students will be prepared to better understand the settings and systems in which they work, and to create organizational change on behalf of the clients whom they serve. It reviews the history of the U.S. welfare state, contemporary social welfare policies, forces contributing to the expansion and contraction of the welfare state and alternate welfare state models. It develops a framework for analyzing social welfare policy and the skills for critical analysis. Special attention is paid to dynamics of race, gender and class and to feminist theories of the welfare state.