Course
Descriptions
Econ 575 - Health Economics - 3 credits
The macroeconomy
of health care as a driving force of health care
policy in America is discussed. The microeconomy
of the health care unit is presented in applied areas
to develop the focus of organizational decision making.
PolS 500 - Research Methods - 3 credits
Prerequisite:
A statistics course or consent of instructor. This
course will first focus on various approaches to
analyzing political phenomena with the goal of developing
students' ability to think analytically and to distinguish
between empirical and normative analysis. The course
will then introduce techniques of empirical research
including research design, measurement, data gathering,
and data analysis.
PolS 501 - Political and Public Policy Analysis
- 3 credits
Prerequisite: Political Science 500
or consent of instructor. This course focuses on
the use of empirical data both to develop empirical
theory and to make policy choices. Topics to be discussed
include hypothesis testing, public choice, and policy
evaluation. Students will be required to complete
an original research project.
PolS 502 - Seminar: Problems in State and Local
Governments - 3 credits
Directed in-depth inquiry
into contemporary structural and policy problems
of state and local governments. During the course,
each student will prepare a research paper relevant
to a current problem suitable for publication and
distribution to an identifiable body of public officials
and citizens for problem-solving purposes.
PolS 508 - Seminar: Legislative and Executive Processes
- 3 credits
Description, analysis, and evaluation
of the structures, processes, procedures, and positions
of the legislative and executive offices in government.
PolS 531 - Seminar: Public Administration - 3 credits
An extensive overview of Public Administration stressing
the basic concepts and trends in the discipline as
well as the classic scholars.
PolS 532 - Public Policy - 3 credits
A discussion
of the initiation, formulation, adoption, implementation,
and evaluation of American public policy. Various
policy areas such as agriculture, education, environment,
and welfare will be analyzed.
PolS 533 - Administrative Ethics in the Public Sector
- 3 credits
This course examines the challenges faced
by public administrators in establishing personal standards
of conduct in the administrative environment. Issues
such as moral versus political accountability, social
justice and whistle blowing are among the topics that
will be explored in this course.
PolS 536 - Public Personnel Administration - 3 credits
This course is designed to help managers in all positions
of an organization to understand the fundamental nature
of public personnel administration, also known as human
resource management. Topics to be covered include basic
functions such as position classification, wage and
salary administration, and performance appraisal. It
will also examine merit systems and contemporary reforms
and techniques including TQM and conflict resolution.
Attention will be given to contemporary issues such
as sexual harassment, affirmative action, privacy,
and unionization.
PolS 538 - Public Budgeting and Financial
Administration - 3 credits
This course will encompass the normative
and descriptive budgetary questions in public administration.
Orthodox, prevailing, and alternative budget theories
are presented in generalized and applied settings.
PolS 539 - Administrative Law - 3 credits
Study
of the legal dimension of public administration. Study
of requirements for rule-making and adjudication and
of judicial review of administrative decisions.
PolS 551 - Health Administration and Organization
- 3 credits
The evolution of health systems and their
organizational challenges of administration from human
resources to management in times of scarce resources
are explored. Specific attention is devoted to Financial
Management, Managerial and Fund Accounting, Medicare,
Medicaid, Fiscal Intermediaries and Managed Care, and
Organizations in Decline.
PolS 552 - Health Policy - 3 credits
This course
examines historic and contemporary trends in health
care delivery in the United States. Emphasis is placed
on addressing health care cost-containment issues,
access to health care and, recent efforts to invoke
broadly based systemic reforms of the U.S. health care
system.
PolS 580 - Administrative Internship - 1 to 6 credits
Prior approval of instructor required before enrollment.
Students are employed on full-time or part-time basis
in on-the-job learning situations in federal, state,
or local government. Students are required to make
an analytical report on some facet of their work.
PolS 591 - Readings in Political Science and Public
Administration - 1 to 3 credits
Prior approval of instructor required
before enrollment. Selected readings with oral and
written reports.
PolS 593 - Problems: Legal and Ethical Issues
in Health Care - 3 credits
This course deals with aspects of the law related to
health care delivery such as compliance and liability
issues. Also discusses issues of bioethics.
PolS 996 - Continuing Enrollment - 1-12 credits
PolS 997 - Independent Study - 2 credits
PolS 998 - Thesis - 1-4 credits
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