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2025 SESSION #2 (4/7 - 6/29/2025)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 2/21/2025)

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

    Textbook:
    TBA

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

    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)

  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 Spring 2 (3/3 - 4/27/2025)
Updated: 2/21/2025

  1. CJA 566.51: Issues in Police Administration and Ethics
    Dr. Theo Byrne

    Textbooks:
    1) Caldero, M.A, & Crank, J.P. (2011). Police ethics: The corruption of the noble cause (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Anderson Publishing. ISBN-13: 978-1437744552.
    2) Gaines, L., & Worrall, J. L. (2012). Police administration (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-1-4390-5639-4.

  2. PUB 502.51/52: Administrative Theory and Behavior
    Dr. Zheng Yang/Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbooks:
    1) Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. (2021). Essentials of Organizational Behavior (15thed.) Pearson (ISBN-13: 9780135468890)
    2) Shafritz, J. M., Ott, J. S., & Jang, Y. S. (2015). Classics of Organization Theory(8th ed.). Wadsworth (ISBN-13: 978-1285870274).  

  3. PUB 574.51: Health Care Financial Management
    Dr. Saahir Shafi

    Textbook:
    Cleverley, W. O., & Cleverley, J. O. (2018). Essentials of health care finance (8th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Barlett Learning (ISBN: 9781284094633)

  4. PUB 582.51: Public and Non-profit Financial Management
    Dr. Rui Sun

    Textbook:
    Finkler, S. A., Calabrese, T. D., & Smith, D. L. (2023). Financial management for public, health, and non-for-profit organizations (7th ed.). CQ Press. (ISBN: 9781071835333)

  5. PUB 592.51: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
    Dr. Fynn Prager

    Textbook:
    Bui. Y. N. (2014). How to write a master's thesis (2nd ed.). SAGE Publication. (ISBN- 13: 978-1-4522-0351-5).

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

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