Executive MPA Curriculum

Examines how organizations have been described and theorized in public administration.
 

This class examines principles of sound tax policy and politics surrounding revenue decisions. It also examines processes and techniques of governmental spending decisions. The practices and fundamental concepts of government accounting, budgeting, financial management and public finance will also be introduced. Contemporary cases of budget decision-making processes at the national, state and local budget systems will be considered.

An examination of the fundamental concepts and issues in the field of public administration.

Seminar content varies; underlying focus is on the creation of public value.

Focuses on the skills needed to develop and implement an outcome system within a public or nonprofit organization. Methods for determining information needs for monitoring of service delivery and program outcomes will be explored. Evaluation issues will be considered in the context of ethical standards, program effectiveness and efficiency.

An introduction to the non-profit sector and its role in society, the economy, and the delivery of human services. Includes an overview of principle management junctions as each applies to non-profit organizations.

Provides an overview and develops skills in the basic concepts and methods in program evaluation.

Focused upon key aspects of public policymaking and analysis, and designed to introduce you to ways of systematically thinking about public policies. Because one cannot analyze a policy without understanding the roots of the policy in question, in this course we spend some time understanding the key actors and forces in the policy arena, understanding how to develop an appropriate framework for analysis, and the limitations of each analytical framework.

In much of the country, public and private actions develop business and physical infrastructure, provide needed services and contribute to other physical and intellectual attributes that constitute communities. This course examines the intermingling of public and private roles and responsibilities and the potential consequences for the business, social, economic and physical development of communities that reflect the inevitable negotiation of public interest oversight and entrepreneurial risk in cross-sectoral partnerships. This course will function as a public private partnership with faculty and students engaging business and public leaders to build and analyze partnerships for the future.

This online, self-paced workshop will examine the impact of several emerging technologies on public expectations of privacy from a public policy perspective. The student will be asked to develop a policy briefing paper for a senior official that examines the likely issues that will arise and prepare a local government to understand and respond to citizens’ concerns.

Introduces students to media relations, social media platforms and how to effectively communicate in those environments.

Introduces students to the process of evaluating grant opportunities and how to prepare a grant application.

This elective will introduce students to executive & leadership coaching as a human resource practice. Students will accomplish this by taking part in a one-hour leadership coaching session with a Voinovich Academy coach. The coaching will focus on the results of the student's Gallup CliftonStrengths or other psychometric assessment results. Students are also able to present any coaching topic they're most interested in, whether or not assessment results are available.