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6220  Constitutional Law-Public Administration (3) Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100.
   Constitutional principles of the U.S. political system: judicial review, separation of powers, federalism, civil rights and liberties.

6230  Administrative Law (3) Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100, PADMN 6220.
   Delegation of power, judicial review, tort liability, investigating, rule making, adjudication, hearings, informal procedure, bias, evidence, constitutional rights of public employees, disclosing information, regulatory reform. Major tort law changes, dysfunctional fear of litigation, liability of governments and individuals under the Constitution. Federal Civil Rights Act of 1871, Federal Tort Claims Act and state law, immunity categories, Utah law and policy issues. Risk management, preventing liability, insurance aspects, and reform controversies.

6240  Local Government Law (3) Cross listed as POLS 6240.
   Meets with POLS 5240. Graduate students should register for 6240 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Topics from: local powers, governmental structure, judicial control, law making; services distribution, voting, citizen participation, personnel, finance, records, planning, eminent domain, tort liability, ethics, intergovernmental relations.

6250  Corrections Administration (3) Cross listed as POLS 6250.
   Meets with POLS 5250. Graduate students should register for 6250 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Approaches to administration requiring coordination of numerous elements in a diverse system of offender management. Effect on administration of approaches to corrections facilities design, management of offenders in the community, and master planning. Constitutional and legal issues that affect programs and systems, including due process, role of the courts, rights of inmates, impact of law on jail and prison, and issues of inmate access and protection .

6260  Foundations of Public Administration (3)
   Introduces the systematic study of public administration for Executive Master of Public Administration students. Surveys major sub-areas such as public human resource management, organization theory, public budgets and financial management, constitutional and administrative law, public policy making, and ethics for public administrators.

6270  Federalism (3) Cross listed as POLS 6270.
   Meets with POLS 5270. Examination of the interaction of national and state government in the United States. Topics include the political theory, constitutional traditions, and historical evolution of American federalism as well as federalism's influence on public fiscal policy and substantive domestic policy areas.

6289  Research Design for Public Administrators (3)
   Introduces scholarly approches to research and problem solving: assessing relevant literature, formulating research questions, generating relevant evidence, and constructing reasoned arguments. Focuses on design issues of experimental, quasi-experimental, non-experimental and interpretive methodologies as well as standards for evaluating research.

6290  Applied Quantitative Methods in Public Policy (3) Cross listed as POLS 6290.
   Meets with POLS 5290. Course involves the analysis of quantitative date, the application of statistics for understanding and conducting public policy research and the use of statistical software. Specific topics include descriptive statistics for discrete and continuous variables, probability theory, hypothesis testing, bivariate associations, ordinary least squares regression and logistic regression. Emphasis is on interpretation of findings.

6300  Administrative Theory (3) Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100.
   Graduate students will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Administrative history, scientific management, human relations movement, bureaucracy, formal/informal organization, comparative administration, decision making, motivation, leadership, participative management, organization development, innovation.

6320  Public Policy Theories and Applications (3) Cross listed as POLS 6320. Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100, ECON 2010, ECON 2020.
   Meets with POL S 5320. Graduate students should register for POL S 6320 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Introduction to policy process in U.S.; needs and demands for public action; organization and nature of political support; process and problems of decision making in major policy areas.

6321  Health Policy (3) Cross listed as POLS 6321.
   Introduction to health policy issues in U.S.; needs and demands for public action; organization and nature of political support; process and problems of decision making in health policy areas.

6322  Environmental Policy (3) Cross listed as POLS 6322.
   Meets with POLS 5322. Graduate students should register for 6322 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Ways government action or inaction affects problems of resource scarcity, environmental health and safety, natural aesthetics, and economic growth.

6323  Policy Analysis (3)
   Meets with POLS 5323/6323. Course addresses both the theoretical and practical aspects of performing policy analysis. Students will examine current policy issues from the perspective of federal, state, and local governments, as well as from those of non-governmental and advocacy organizations. Students will be introduced to repositories of data, information and analysis available on policy topics, and will conduct research using both primary and secondary data.

6330  Practice of Public Management (3) Recommended Prerequisite: PADMN 6300.
   Emphasizes the contexts in which public managers manage; how managers of the "public good" get things done in practice. Contexts include both intra- and inter-organizational systems and settings. Getting things done through influence (without formal authority) and inter-organizational networks are addressed as well as, for example, management skills and/or management survival skills within public bureaucracies. The course addresses aspects of management policy, but not issues of public policy analysis or formation.

6340  Organizational Productivity and Change (3) Cross listed as POLS 6340. Prerequisite: POLS 6300 and 6330.
   Application of administrative theory, administrative practice/organizational behavior, organization development, and related social sciences to the complex task of managing change and assessing and improving productivity in public and nonprofit organizations. Includes leadership and employee motivation theories.

6350  Interdisciplinary Course in Disability Studies (3) Cross listed as OC TH 6350, POLS 6350. Prerequisite: Bachelor's Degree.
   An interdisciplinary course in Disability Studies will serve as an overview of the significance of disability in society and culture by viewing it from various perspectives. The course will explore theories and models that examine health, economic, social, political, and cultural factors that define disability and influence personal and collective responses to disability. Students will participate in a service learning project that will help to integrate key concepts from the course and their own disciplines. This course is intended to prepare graduate students with knowledge and understanding of disability in order to enhance their knowledge and skills as professionals and citizens.

6360  Public Human Resource Management (3)
   Merit system, human resource planning, classification, recruitment, testing, selection, training, compensation, EEO, productivity, performance appraisal, promotion, discipline, labor relations, health and safety, and employee rights.

6370  Position Classification and Performance Appraisal (3) Cross listed as POLS 6370. Prerequisite: POLS 6360
   Public sector job classification, history of policy analysis of job classification systems, job analysis, desk audit, interviews, validations, job description writing, point ratings, factor analysis. Developing agency support; appraisal purposes and data usage; types of appraisal methods and their strengths and weaknesses; feedback; data collection and building effective appraisal systems.

6380  Public Budgeting and Finance (3) Recommended Prerequisite: ECON 1010 and POLS 1100.
   Organization, techniques, and politics of administrative planning, budget preparation and legislative appropriations, and control systems in public administration. Program budgeting, benefit-cost, and other analytic techniques of public planning and budgeting. Fiscal and monetary policy, nature of capitalism in a mixed economy, problems of labor, agriculture, and the poor.

6390  Administration in Local Government (3) Cross listed as POLS 6390. Recommended Prerequisite: POLS 1100.
   Meets with POLS 5390. Graduate students should register for 6390 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. This course is designed to focus specifically on local government administration through the exploration of local government in general, problems, and resolution approaches of local administrators, and particular behavior patterns of local administrations.

6520  Law Enforcement Administration (3) Cross listed as POLS 6520.
   Meets with POLS 5520. Graduate students should register for POLS 6520 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Application of public administration to unique environment of police agencies. Social/political context of law enforcement; organization of police agencies; measuring productivity of police work; personnel administration in police agencies; and professional ethics in law enforcement. Quantitative measures of recidivism, risk assessment, program effectiveness, demographic variables, and measures of validity of prevailing theories.

6540  Nonprofit Advocacy (3)
   Meets with POLS 5540/6540. This course builds understanding of the role of nonprofit organizations in the public policy process. It examines ways in which nonprofits can influence public policy in all three branches of government, and the legal and political environment in which nonprofits operate as policy advocates.

6550  Nonprofit Sectors and Organizations (3) Cross listed as POLS 6550.
   Meets with POLS 5550. Graduate students should register for 6550. The scope, history, values, theories, and philosophies of the nonprofit sector; and the implications for governance of nonprofit organizations. Theories of the sector's existence, roles and functions, theories of philanthropy. Differences among organizations in the three sectors. The legal and ethical responsibility of trustees to act in the public interest.

6560  Developing Revenue in Nonprofit Organizations (3) Cross listed as POLS 6560.
   Meets with POLS 5560. Graduate students should register for 6560. Selecting and designing revenue sources and strategies to serve the mission and programs of an organization. Alternative revenue sources such as grants, fees, contracts, cause-based marketing, special events, and donations. Related issues such as Unrelated Business Income, and charitable trusts.

6563  Program and Policy Evaluation (3) Cross listed as POLS 6563, FCS 6563, PUBPL 6563. Prerequisite: PADMN 6290 or equivalent.
   Systematic introduction to program and policy evaluation as a basis for accountability. Introduces alternative approaches to evaluation. Emphasis is placed on strategies for impact assessment (including randomized designs and non-randomized designs), measuring efficiency, examining short-term and long-term consequences, identifying both intended and unintended impacts, and the social, political, and ethical context of evaluation.

6570  Management of Nonprofit Organizations (3) Cross listed as POLS 6570.
   Meets with POLS 5570. Graduate students should register for 6570. Management functions, issues, and skills that are distinctively nonprofit, such as board-staff relations, accountability to internal and external constituencies, managing volunteers, balancing professional and political interests, and ethics. Effects of the legal context and regulatory environment on the managing in nonprofit organizations.

6580  Nonprofit Financial Management (3)
   Meets with POLS 5580/6580. This course explores money management systems in nonprofit organizations from the standpoint of roles and functions relating to oversight, accounting principles and concepts (including fund accounting), analysis of financial statements, reporting practices, and management of financial planning,budgeting, cash flows, short/long-term financing, and endowment policies and practices.

6820  Art of Negotiation (3)
   Meets with POLS 5820/6820. This course addresses the principles and practices of effective negotiation for managers in public and nonprofit agencies. Negotiations are becoming increasingly important as public agencies work with multiple parties to accomplish their objectives in an era of collaborative governance. Students will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of various styles of negotiation and the underlying objectives, strategies and ethics of negotiation.

6830  Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution (3)
   Meets with POLS 5830/6830. Managing crises in public organizations is a vital aspect of public administration, whether the event causing the crisis is internal (sudden budget cut, labor strike, etc) or external (social upheaval, hurricane, earthquake, etc). This course teaches students about the skills and leadership necessary to meet diverse challenges, and to learn from the management or crises. Special focus is placed on managing and resolving inter-group conflict in public organizations.

6844  Utah's Health-Editorial Board (2 to 3) Cross listed as POLS 6844.
   Utah's Health: An Annual Review is a student edited annual journal concerned with health policy and administration. Student editors are nominated by faculty and appointed by the executive committee of the editorial board. Graduate student editors may register for up to two hours of credit per year, and graduate student members of the executive committee may register for up to three hours of credit per year.

6860  Disability Studies Forum (1) Cross listed as POLS 6860.
   This course is a culminating activity for the Disability Studies Graduate Certificate. The Disability Studies Forum host national and international Disability Studies scholars, and shares research results and ongoing research being conducted in the area of Disability by faculty and students.

6870  Seminar: Public Administration and Ethics (3) Prerequisite: POLS 6220 and 6230 and 6290 and 6300 and 6330 and 6360 and 6380 or instructor's consent.
   Integration of courses and administrative experience; application of ethical theories to public administration practice; required major research paper on ethical issues in government.

6880  Health Services Administration Seminar (3) Cross listed as POLS 6880. Prerequisite: All other required courses for the HSA Program or instructor approval.
   Meets with H EDU 6660. Capstone seminar designed to integrate HSA Program's diverse course contents. Speakers include health administrators from community agencies.

6890  Capstone in Public Administration (3) Prerequisite: Must be taken in spring or summer semester of last year in program.
   This is a case-based course designed to review and apply concepts from other core courses and some concentration fields in the MPA program. Students will participate actively in a variety of scenarios and role plays, write individual and joint case analyses that integrate theories from core subject areas, and will be examined on their knowledge and ability in applying concepts to practice. Students must take Capstone in the spring or summer semester of their last year.

6900  Independent Research: Master of Public Administration (1 to 6)

6910  Public Administration Internship (1 to 6)
   Supervised on-the-job experience in an administrative office. Paper required. POLS 5910 is for Undergraduate students.

6965  Special Topics in Public Administration (3) Cross listed as POLS 6965.
   Meets with POLS 5965. Graduate students should register for 6965 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Advanced development of particular administrative skills. Topics vary.

6971  M.P.A. Research Paper (3)
   M.P.A. students who exercise the M.P.A. research paper option register for three hours with consent of MRP supervisor.

7965  Seminar: Public Administration (3)
   Doctoral Seminar in Public Administration.