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2025 SESSION #2 (4/7 - 6/29/2025)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 3/18/2025)

  1. PUB 520.41: Leadership in the Public Sector
    Dr. Q. Jin

    Textbook:
    CSUDH Library
    Van Wart, Montgomery. (2012). Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction (2nd Ed.). New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765625502.

  2. PUB 592.41: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
    Dr. S. Shafi

    Textbook:
    Bui. Y. N. (2014). How to write a Master’s thesis (2nd ed.). SAGE Publication. ISBN-13: 978-1-452203515. 

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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)

  2. PUB 501: Public Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    Hill, Carolyn J. & Lynn, Laurence E. (2016). Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (2nd ed.). CQ PRESS, c/o SAGE (ISBN: 9781483344324)   
    NOTE: free ebook 9780470402924 from CSUDH library

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

2025 Summer 1 (5/5 - 6/29/2025)
Updated: 3/25/2025

  1. PUB 501.51: Public Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    Hill, C.J. and Lynn Jr., L.E. (2016). Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (2nd ed.). CQ Press. ISBN 9781483344324

  2. PUB 504.51/52: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration I
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbooks:
    Please click here for textbook information

  3. PUB 508.51: Public Human Resources Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    Berman, Evan. M, Bowman, James S., West, Jonathan P., & Van Wart, Montgomery R. (2021). Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems (7th ed.). SAGE. ISBN 9781071848906.

2025 Summer 1 (6/30 - 8/24/2025)
Updated: 3/25/2025

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

    Textbooks:
    TBA

  2. PUB 505.51: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration II
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbooks:
    Please click here for textbook information

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

    Textbooks:
    TBA

  4. PUB 580.51: Nonprofit Leadership and Management
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbook:
    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.


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

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