City College of New York
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PSM B1600 Strategic Management Of Public Organizations
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Covers the analytical techniques that public and non-profit managers use to increase the value their organizations produce. Topics include: planning, decision making, leadership, organizational behavior, and resource management. The course will also cover performance management, human resource practices, technology management, and ethics in public service. |
PSM B1610 Public Budgeting And Finance
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Covers the methods, terminology, and processes associated with the management of financial resources at the federal, state, and local levels. Topics include the politics of budgeting, budget reform, budget structure, cash and debt management, government accounting, tax evaluation, and financial reporting. Students will examine and evaluate a variety of budgets and financial reports. |
PSM B1640 MPA Internship
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Students complete 400 hours of professional-level work in a government agency or non-profit organization. |
PSM B1700 Public Policy
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Introduces public policy and many of the important issues in its formulation and implementation. Also covers the ways in which academics and practitioners evaluate the effectiveness of public policies. Topics covered include approaches to governance, and the politics, ethics, economic, and sociology of attempts to mobilize public power around an area of concern. Students apply what is learned to models of policy making and analysis. |
PSM B1710 Policy Frameworks And Target Populations: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, And Class
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Focuses on reading policy critically, and on understanding the assumptions that underlie policies at the point of their formulation and execution. The course also covers the trade-offs and political compromises in policy history that may affect the ways in which political adversaries frame or publicly portray policies and target populations. |
PSM B1730 Communication In Public Service
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Covers methods and principles of effective communication in public service. Students learn about strategic communication and about writing press releases, policy memos, grant applications, and testimony. |
PSM B1805 Governance And Public Administration
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Focuses on the structure and processes of governments in the US and the US political system. Covers constitutional theory, federalism and the role of the media, the president, and the Congress. Examines the role of political participation. Also examines the history, theories, concepts, and practice of public administration in the US. |
PSM B1810 Human Resources Management
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
The course focuses on the knowledge and practical skills that public managers need in managing employees. Topics include managing teams, discrimination and labor law, working with unions, motivating employees, privatization, recruitment, the aging workforce, and performance evaluations. Particular emphasis is given to developing human resources practices that support core organizational objectives. |
PSM B1816 Program And Policy Evaluation
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
This course covers the techniques and methods used in public administration for evaluating the effectiveness of programs and policies. Topics covered may include: performance measures, cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness and efficiency analysis, surveys and working with survey data, case study, experimental design, present value analysis, and indexes. |
PSM B1877 Quantitative Methods
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
The course prepares students for PSM B1620: Advanced Quantitative Methods. It focuses on the knowledge and practical skills that public managers need in working with data and basic methods of quantitative analysis. The course will cover descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and math models with management applications. Specific topics include: measures of central tendency and variation, probability distributions, estimation, rations, percentages, and randomness. |
PSM B3105 Leadership In Public Service
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
This course assumes that leadership can be learned through the practice of skills, through guided reflection and discussion, and through observation and analysis of everyday leaders in everyday situations. By the end of the course, students will understand models and theories of leadership and leadership development learn to identify leadership skills in themselves and in others, and understand how leadership operates in different professional settings and context. |
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Master of Public Administration
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The Master in Public Administration program, housed in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, prepares degree candidates – especially those from communities traditionally underserved and intentionally marginalized – with the skill and capacity to drive equitable change in mission-driven organizations. Our program, located on the culturally rich City College campus, embedded in historic Harlem, commits to cultivating leaders ready to reimagine our public sector systems.
The emergent and intersectional nature of society's biggest challenges - environmental degradation, racial injustice, health disparities, and inequality in all its forms - call for a new brand of public service management. Our program invites students to co-create a social justice leadership practice that is values-driven and inclusive of the multitude of perspectives and diverse experiences that define our communities. Now more than ever, we need public sector professionals who are committed to shifting power in ways that support the rich tapestry of cultures, faiths, and ethnicities that make us who we are as a society. |
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