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PAF9120 Public and Nonprofit Management I
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques for managing government and not-for-profit agencies, including schools. This course focuses on structural models; individual behavior, including group dynamics and leadership; effective use and management of human resources; and political and cultural frameworks. Questions of effectiveness, responsibility, and professional relations are considered.
Prerequisite: Not open to students who have completed PAF 9302, OR MGT 9300, OR PSY 9788 |
PAF9139 Communication Strategy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In this class, students learn to design communication campaigns that will change or modify key behaviors; promote a cause, service, or program; or enhance the brand and fundraising capacity of an organization. Course topics will cover areas such as fear appeals, message fatigue, working with diverse audiences, and online and social media advocacy. Students will develop message strategies using techniques drawn from social marketing, persuasion, and political communication. |
PAF9140 Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Analysis I
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course focuses on the budget cycle and budget decision-making. It includes tools for developing, implementing, and controlling a budget within a, typically, public organization. Topics include development of operating budgets, cash budgets, break-even analysis, cost behavior, the time value of money, capital budgeting, long-term financing, and variance analysis. Basic budget accounting concepts are studied. The course includes development of spreadsheet skills for budgeting. |
PAF9110 Ethics and Public Decision Making
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course concerns the relationship of ethics and public service. Those in public service face a broad array of ethical problems and dilemmas ranging from simple matters of public trust through the application of ethical reasoning in policymaking. The course examines the limits of self-interest in public service, the differing ethical concerns of elective and appointive officials, the conflict between responsibility to hierarchical authority and personal conceptions of the right, bureaucratic responsibility for the ethical content of public policies, and the possibility of necessary evil. A significant portion of this course focuses on ethical theories that may help resolve these dilemmas. |
PAF9130 Economic Analysis and Public Policy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Introduction to concepts and analytic tools necessary to economic examination of individual and firm behavior; analysis of causes and consequences of public sector intervention in the economy. |
PAF9132 Governing New York City
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Examination of the structure and dynamics of New York City government, with special emphasis on the development and delivery of city services. |
PAF9165 Race, Inequality and Public Policies
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This class explains different forms of inequality, identifies their origins, and analyzes how and why race and racism shape laws and public policies. The class will assess policies, current and proposed, to reduce inequality, and strategies to promote a more just and ethical society. Open to Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs students; others with Marxe School permission. |
PAF9163 Leadership and Strategy in Public Affairs
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Leadership and Strategy in Public Affairs examines the personal, institutional and strategic circumstances that public (and nonprofit and business) leaders confront as they conduct their work. The course focuses on the exercise of leadership, particularly the development and execution of strategy, particularly within the context of politics and government. Students will explore the strategic calculi employed by leaders as they attempt to mobilize support, achieve personal influence, and exercise institutional authority to accomplish objectives. |
PAF9174 Program Evaluation
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course examines program evaluation in public and nonprofit contexts. Topics include: the nature, types, and purposes of evaluation; program theory and logic models; data collection, monitoring, and analysis; experimental and quasi-experimental evaluation designs; internal and external validity; politics of evaluation; stakeholder analysis; and ethics and standards. |
SSW78100 Organizational Management and Leadership I
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
For Non-Majors: Principles and processes of administration in social work. Organization and administration; planning,personnel management, budget and financing,and relationships among boards, committees, executives, professional staff, and volunteers. |
SSW71100 Human Behavior & the Social Environment
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Identification and integration of pertinent concepts relevant to each phase of the life cycle; biological, psychological, and social systems theories within the conceptual framework of human behavior and its interaction with the social environment. |
SSW 74100 Community Organizing, Planning, and Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Theory and practice of community organization and planning. Models and strategies for professional practice for community and client participation and empowerment. Community needs and resources; practice dynamics; dilemmas. |
SSW74800 Grantsmanship and Proposal Writing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Techniques of fundraising, proposal preparation, and grantsmanship. Proposal writing and negotiation with funding sources. |
SSW78200 Organizational Management & Leadership II
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Personnel management, staff training, volunteers and paraprofessionals, decision-making processes, budgeting, boards and committees, public relations and marketing, and methods of accountability. |
SSW78300 Organizational Management & Leadership III
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Program design in social agencies. Emphasis on assuring access, consistency, continuity and comprehensiveness of services, as well as client feedback mechanisms. Financial management, budgeting, strategic planning. |
SSW75251 Program Evaluation
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Program Evaluation |
SSW79760 The Neighborhood Lab: Strengthening Community Capacity
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The Neighborhood Lab: Strengthening Community Capacity |
Program Information:
Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Executive MPA Program
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Degree and Certificate InformationDegrees
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Level | Title/
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Executive Master of Public Administration
Graduate |
EMPA |
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42 |
English |
The Executive MPA is for experienced professionals who want to gain administrative leadership skills through a convenient course schedule and accelerated program of study. Classes focus on current issues confronting administrative professionals in New York City. Skills are developed in budgeting, communications, economics, management, and research methods. Baruch College’s distinguished faculty are joined in the classroom by expert practitioners as either instructors or guest speakers in order to bring real-world knowledge to pedagogy.
Established in 1984, the Marxe School’s Executive MPA is one of the original executive public administration programs in the nation. The program develops confident, innovative, ethical, and strategic leaders with the capability to make a difference in government and nonprofit administration. Students become a part of an alumni network that includes high-level administrators at such organizations including: Con Edison, Association for a Better New York, New York Cares, the Roundabout Theater Company, New York-Presbyterian, Maimonides Medical Center, NYC Office of Management and Budget, NYC City Council, NYC Department of Finance, NYC Parks Department, and the American Federation of the Arts. |
Master of Social Work
Graduate |
MSW |
Organizational Management & Leadership |
60 |
English |
The Two-Year Full Time Program is designed for students who can devote themselves to full-time study in social work. Students attend classes two days a week and are in field placement three days a week. Students can complete the 60 academic credits required for graduation in two years. |
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