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Graduate Certificate in Public Administration

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Graduate Certificate

Courses Offered in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Fundamentals of Urban Planning

  • This course provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology, and urban studies courses. Primarily sociological in approach, this course incorporates historical, social psychological, geographical, and anthropological insights. It also gives extensive attention to the "new" political economy approach to urban studies.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Public Policy

  • This course is designed to provide you with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.

  • 6 Credits

Fundamentals of Urban Planning

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Exploring the city
    The origins and development of the world and rsquo;s cities
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The development of north american cities
    Cities and suburbs of the twenty-first century
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Urban sociology: classic and modern statements
    Social psychology: the urban experience
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Geography and spatial perspectives: making sense of space
    Comparative urbanism: the city and culture
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The new urban sociology: the city and capitalism
    Stratification and social class: urban and suburban lifestyles
    Race, ethnicity, and gender: urban diversity
    Housing, education, crime: confronting urban problems
    Cities in the developing world
    Planning the urban environment

Introduction to Public Policy

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Policy analysis: what governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes.
    Models of politics: some help in thinking about public policy.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The policymaking process: decision-making activities.
    Criminal justice: rationality and irrationality in public policy.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Health and welfare: the search for rational strategies.
    Education: the group struggle.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic policy: incrementalism at work.
    Tax policy: battling the special interests.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    International trade and immigration: elite-mass conflict.
    Environmental policy: externalities and interests.
    Civil rights: elite and mass interaction.
    American federalism: institutional arrangements and public policy.
    Defense policy: strategies for serious games.
    Homeland security: terrorism and non-detterable threats.
    Policy evaluation: finding out what happens after a law is passed.
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