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2025 SESSION #1 (1/6 - 3/30/2025)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 11/18/2025)

  1. PUB 505.41: Administration and Public Policy Analysis
    Dr. E. Kulikov

    Textbook:
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  2. PUB 526.41: Collaborative Governance
    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. H. 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 1 (1/6 - 3/2/2025)
Updated: 11/21/2024

  1. PUB 500.51: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
    Dr. Qiyuan Jin

    Textbooks:
    1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2015). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill (ISBN-13: 9780073379159).

    2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning (ISBN-13: 9781305639034) (note that this edition has 54 chapters/articles).   

  2. PUB 503.51: Introduction to Research Methods in Public Administration
    Dr. Qiyuan Jin

    Textbook:
    Babbie, E. R. (2021). The practice of social research (15th Edition). Cengage Learning. (ISBN-13: 978-0357360767) Optional: Kumar, R. (2019). Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners (5th Edition). Sage Publications Limited. (ISBN-13: 9781526449900)

  3. PUB 510.51: Public Budgeting
    Dr. Rui Sun

    Textbook:
    Mikesell, J. L. (2018). Fiscal administration: Analysis and applications for the public sector (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-1-305-95368-0.

  4. PUB 512.51: 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

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

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