A survey of what is involved in the administration of public and nonprofit entities. How to hire, evaluate, and reward the right people, developing and carrying out public policies, preparing and interpreting budgets, dealing with various pressure groups and governmental agencies, and organizing human resources to carry out the public's business honestly and effectively. Several case studies will be used. Fulfills one of the Foundations - Social and Behavioral Sciences. Offered every semester.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online
Comparative study of government systems, rural and urban. Students specialize in their own governments. Fulfills one of the Themes requirements. Offered every semester.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online
Provides instruction in writing grants, evaluating grant proposals, and in researching and cultivating funding sources. Students will gain an understanding of the link between organizational mission and program development by preparing a full proposal to meet a real-life community need. Offered fall semester.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
The content, tools, and techniques of budgeting from the perspectives of the manager, legislator, and citizen. A survey of revenue raising methods and administration. Applicable to public jurisdictions and nonprofit agencies of all sizes. Includes accounting principles essential to public management. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Winter 2024 - Online
Examines and applies leadership issues, concepts, and situations that are evident in various community and public or nonprofit organizational contexts. Offered once a year.
Winter 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Students develop crisis/emergency management and preparedness skills for themselves, for disaster volunteers, for workplaces, and for government agencies. Students study a comprehensive approach to emergency planning, response, and recovery, with roles for federal, state, and local governments, nonprofit agencies, and private sector organizations. Offered winter semester.
Fall 2024 - Online
An exploration of the various theories that inform the structures of organizations and the resulting dynamics of accommodation, direction, control, permission, and ethical dilemmas that are set in place within and between the public structures of our society. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Winter 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online
Basic analytical concepts, including group dynamic skills, housing and land use surveys, historic district analysis, and neighborhood identification. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
This course includes a history of ideas about public service; a definition and analysis of the governmental sector, the nonprofit sector, and their intersection; a study of classic and contemporary debates within the public service field; and an examination of how public-serving organizations adapt to changing environments. Offered fall and winter semesters.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid
Instruction in finding grant sources, writing grants, developing grant budgets and evaluating grant proposals. As part of this course, students will be expected to write and submit at least one actual grant proposal. Offered once a year.
An advanced survey of the most important and frequently used methods and techniques of research and analysis used by administrators and planners. The course also will familiarize students with the use of computers for such research and analysis. Emphasizes the application of research and analysis in public administration. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PNH 660 (may be taken concurrently).
A survey of policies and issues in human resource management in public, nonprofit, and healthcare contexts, including volunteer management. The focus is on values, behavior, ethics, and human interactions in organizations. Offered spring/summer and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to a master's program in the School of Public, Nonprofit, and Health Administration.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Explores the various theories of organizations. The focus is on the process of structural development and the impact each structure has on individuals and groups. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PNH 660 (may be taken concurrently).
Practices and problems of public fiscal management with special attention to budgetary concepts and analytical techniques: the budget as an instrument of planning and control; organizing to ensure fiscal accountability; the public economy; financial decision-making; planning, programming, and budgeting systems; and allocation of scarce government resources in government and nonprofit agencies and programs. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
An exploration of theories advanced to explain policy formation; examination of how needs are identified, communicated to policymakers, evaluated and converted into formal policy, and implemented by administrative actions. Emphasis is on policy analysis in the public sector. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or PNH 630; and PNH 611.
Examines theories and practice of metropolitan politics and administration, including studies of intergovernmental relations, suburbia and the multicentered metropolis, economic development and managing metropolitan services. Structures of politics and power, both formal and informal, are investigated. Offered spring/summer and fall semesters. Prerequisite: PNH 520 (may be taken concurrently).
Fall 2024 - Hybrid
An intensive study of administrative and regulatory law as it relates to the public sector. Requirements for, and limits on, the exercise of power by elected and appointed officials and the liability of public managers are covered. Offered fall semester. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Overview of the current management, organization, and delivery of U.S. health care. Current management and organization theories are compared in relation to the health care system. Major system components are defined and studied. Included are discussions of staffing, dealing with internal and external constituencies, and identification of hospital types. Offered every other year.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Examines public policymaking in the health care sector since 1900. Emphasizes policy, the process of government regulation, and the character of health settings at the federal, state, and local levels with attention to the constitutional foundations, legislative policies, and bureaucratic implementation features of the system in a political context. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Online
Provides detailed understanding of the health services financial framework for decision-making. Microcomputer applications that serve to facilitate operational and financial planning and analysis, third party reimbursement, regulation, cost containment, rate settings, operating budgets, capital budgets, project budgeting, cash budgeting, and financial feasibility. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 611.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online
Examines the principles and application of economic analysis in the health industry. Provides insights offered by economic analysis of relevant data specific to health issues and problems such as failures of the market system, large gaps in access, cost containment, regulation, and extensive growth of private insurance and government programs. Cross-listed with ECO 643. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Examines current and historical legal and ethical issues impacting health administration, including malpractice and other liability issues, licensing and regulation, professional ethics, contracts and property, insurance, corporate, taxation, anti-trust, fraud and abuse, medical staff, confidentiality, health care access, peer review, ethics committees, legal and ethical aspects of patient care decision-making and consent. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Discussions of various types of hospitals. Study of their organization and management, including clinical, support and administrative functions, analysis of special operational problems, and administrative ethics. Requirements of the Joint Commission on accreditation of hospitals and other accrediting agencies are emphasized. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequisites: PA 520 or PA 630 (may be taken concurrently).
This course focuses on methods and tools used to manage quality in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals, clinics, physician practices, managed care, and long-term care. It addresses developments in health care quality assurance and improvement, data sources and analysis tools, staffing and management, accreditation, and public relations. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 611, PNH 612, PNH 630, and PNH 631.
In this course students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the complexities of healthcare practice management. Study of their organization and management, including clinical, support and administrative functions, analysis of special operational problems, and administrative ethics. Requirements of accrediting agencies are emphasized. Offered fall semester. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Overview of organization and management of continuing care organizations, including community-based, home health, adult daycare, hospices, mental health, and residential care options like senior living, assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities. Examines management and funding of institutional and noninstitutional settings serving the chronically, terminally, or mentally ill, or disabled elderly. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Covers community assessment, program planning, and program management techniques with an emphasis on health. Community relations and coordination will be addressed. Prepares students for IRS, grant planning, and reporting. Course offered fall semester. Prerequisite: PNH 611 (for M.H.A. and M.P.N.L. students) or STA 610 (for M.P.H. students).
This course explores and applies marketing and communications concepts to public, nonprofit and health organizations. Topics discussed include public relations, social media, marketing management, and community-based communications. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PNH 660 (may be taken concurrently).
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Spring/Summer 2024 - Hybrid
Describes and evaluates ways to coordinate the efforts of public agencies, private businesses, and nonprofit organizations to address planning, economic development, and employment issues more comprehensively. Included in this analysis are public and private programs basic to economic development, state and federal enabling legislation and regulations, and local ordinance and public/private partnership alternatives. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or PNH 630 (may be taken concurrently).
Planning as a decision-making process, methods for defining goals in public and private planning programs, role of planning in policy formulation, planning for human environment relationships. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 630 or PA 660 (may be taken concurrently).
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Hybrid Winter 2025 - Hybrid
Analyses of population aging, the longevity revolution, and their impacts on individuals, families, organizations, communities, and society. Critical evaluation of theories and controversies of aging, together with practices to address aging realities. Uses strength-based approaches. Attention given to key social and health policies and programs for older adults and their families. Cross-listed with SW 665. Offered fall semester.
This course provides future health administrators with a firm grounding in the history and purpose of public health, population health, and the extensive variety of programming for improving population health. It also provides a grounding in managerial epidemiology. Offered fall semester.
A comprehensive survey of philanthropic traditions and practices in the nonprofit sector, its history, philosophy, character, governance, and legal status. Emphasis on the role and tradition of philanthropy and voluntarism in America and on the special fundraising, resource development, and ethical practices of the sector. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.P.A., M.H.A., or M.P.N.L. programs.
Explores the assumptions and practice of nonprofit organization management. Examines how these issues differ in different types of nonprofits. Topics include issues of public accountability, ethics, evaluating organizational effectiveness, personnel motivation, board and staff relationships, volunteers, and the meaning of service. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 660 and (PNH 520 or PNH 630).
This course will examine nonprofit finance and accounting from the management perspective. Topics include financial policies and internal controls, financial statement presentation and analysis, audit and tax reporting, and budgeting. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: PNH 520 or PNH 660.
An introduction to the public policy-making process as it applies to nonprofit organizations. Explores how nonprofit organizations both shape and are shaped by public policy. The focus is on the intersection of nonprofit and government actions and services. Offered fall semester. Prerequisites: PNH 660 and either PNH 520 or PNH 630.
Program evaluation is an important component of management and quality improvement. This course draws from the leading scholars in evaluation to establish a foundation of knowledge in program evaluation and evaluation capacity building. Offered fall semester. Prerequisites: PNH 611 and PNH 614.
Examines perspectives on, models for, and functions of board governance and the way governance and management are intertwined in the operation and leadership of foundations and nonprofit organizations. Explores specific functions of trustees within their legal, ethical, and fiduciary obligations. Offered every other year. Prerequisites: PNH 520 and (PNH 660 or PNH 630) (may be taken concurrently).
This course explores the implementation of strategic grantmaking and the application of theories of change by charitable foundations, nonprofit organizations, and governments as they aim to achieve measurable community impacts. Through field journal readings, case studies, and visiting practitioner presentations, students will gain practical knowledge in the evaluation of grant applications, the role of foundation program officers, and the effective execution of grantmaking strategies. Offered winter semester. Prerequisites: PNH 660 and PNH 667.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Hybrid
This course will examine fund development in theory, process, and implementation within nonprofit organizations. The course is designed and taught primarily from the development manager's perspective; however, the course will also briefly cover development from the grantmaking perspective. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisites: PNH 660 and PNH 661 (PNH 661 may be taken concurrently).
Instruction in finding grant sources, writing grants, developing grant budgets, and evaluating grant proposals. As part of this course, students will be expected to write and submit at least one actual grant proposal. Offered once a year.
Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Theory and cases in international nongovernmental organizations (INGO) management. Analysis of various types and various roles played by INGOs. Relationship between INGOs and other actors in international development such as multilateral and bilateral donors, host governments, and local non governmental organizations and communities. Resource generation and management. Assessment and improvement of INGO performance. Offered winter and spring/summer semesters. Prerequisites: PNH 520 or with permission
Provides an overview of ecological, energy, climatic, and consumption issues impacting local communities. Through a multidisciplinary approach, students study the relationship among society, organizations, and the natural environment. Students examine how local governments and nonprofit organizations develop sustainable built landscapes, educate about sustainable best practices, and foster green economic development. Offered Fall semesters. Prerequisite: Admission to the sustainability certificate or MPA programs.
Winter 2025 - Online
A seminar for the study of important topics not ordinarily covered in other courses. This course may be taken more than once when the topic is different. Offered on sufficient demand. Prerequisite: Admission to the MPA or MHA program.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
Examines the structure and dynamics of organizations; problems of financing, staffing, and program implementation; administrative reform and reorganization; qualitative and quantitative methods for managerial decision-making; goal-directed processes and effective planning. Uses a case study approach emphasizing management problems. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: Completion of 30 credit hours in M.P.A. or M.H.A. program.
Winter 2024 - Hybrid Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Fall 2024 - Hybrid
The course requires preparation of an extensive research and writing assignment under faculty supervision. Offered on sufficient demand. Graded credit/no-credit. Prerequisites: Faculty approval of research proposal and completion of the Responsible Conduct of Research Training within the last three years.
Winter 2024 - Online Spring/Summer 2024 - Online Winter 2025 - Online
A research or reading project, program proposal, or other approved activity that builds in the student's area of specialization. Offered fall and winter semesters. Graded credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Permission of advisor.
