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2024 SESSION #3 (7/1 - 9/17/2024)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 5/30/2024)

  1. PUB 504.41: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration I
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbook:
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  2. PUB 512.41: Foundations of Ethical Administration
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    Cooper, Terry. (2012). The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 9780470873946.


2024 SESSION #4 (9/23 - 12/15/2024)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 5/31/2024)

  1. PUB 500.41: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
    Dr. Hui Li 

    Textbook:
    TBA.

  2. PUB 501.41: Public Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    Hill, Carolyn J., and Lynn Jr., Laurence E. (2016). Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (2nd Ed.)Links to an external site.. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. ISBN: 9781483344324.

  3. PUB 505.41: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration II
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbook:
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  4. PUB 522.41: Financial Management in the Public Sector
    Dr. Hui Li

    Textbook:
    TBA.

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MPA ON-CAMPUS TEXTBOOKS

  1. PUB 500: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
    Dr. S. Shafi

    Textbooks:
    1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2022). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (9th ed.). Routledge (ISBN: 9781032055558)
    2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of Public Administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage (ISBN-13: 978-1305639034)

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MPA-Specialized Concentrations Textbooks: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Nonprofit Management (8 week)


2024 Summer 2 (7/1 - 8/25/2024)
Updated: 5/30/2024

  1. PUB 505.51/52: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration II
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbooks:
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  2. PUB 580.51: Nonprofit Leadership and Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbooks:
    Renz, David O. (2016). The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (4th edition). Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass. ISBN # 978-1-118-85296-5.

  3. PUB 570.51: Administration of Health Care Organizations
    Dr. Saahir Saafi

    Textbook:
    Buchbinder, S. B., Shanks, N. H., & Kite, B. J. (2019). Introduction to health care management. (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. (ISBN: 9781284156560) 
    *** Zero Cost Option: An online version of the 2nd edition of this text is available through the University Library here. Chapters 1-16 are relatively similar across the 2nd and 4th editions

  4. CJA 563.51: Administrative Law and Policy Analysis
    Dr. Theo Byrne

    Textbooks:
    1) Hall, D. E. (2020), Administrative law: Bureaucracy in a democracy (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education. ISBN: 9780135186329
    (2)Kraft, M.E., & Furlong, S.R. (2021). Public policy: Politics, analysis, and alternatives (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781544374604


     * Textbooks are listed from the instructors and subject to change.

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