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- MPA Online (Public Management Emphasis - 12 week)
- MPA Online (Specialized Concentrations - 8 week)
- MPA On-Campus (16 week)
2021 SESSION #1 (1/4 - 3/28/2021)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 12/1/2020)
PUB 500.41: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
Prof. R. Sun
Textbooks:
1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2015). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, & law in the public sector (8th) ISBN: 9780073379159. 2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th). ISBN: 9781305639034.PUB 502.41: Administrative Theory and Behavior
Prof. Z. Yang
Textbooks:
1) Robbins, S. P. & Judge, T. (2016). Essentials of Organizational Behavior (13th ed.) Pearson (ISBN-13: 978-0133920819)
2) Shafritz, J. M., Ott, J. S., & Jang, Y. S. (2015). Classics of Organization Theory (8th ed.). Wadsworth (ISBN-13: 978-1285870274)PUB 512.41: Foundations of Ethical Administration
Dr. Hugo Asencio
Textbooks:
1) Cooper, Terry. (2012). The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 9780470873946. 2) Menzel, Donald. (2009). Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. ISBN 9781439806906.- PUB 520.41: Leadership in the Public Sector
Dr. Hugo Asencio
Textbook:
Van Wart, Montgomery. (2017). Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9780765647023. - PUB 528.41: Economics for the Public Manager
Prof. J. Martinez
Textbooks:
Please check the courses Syllabus in Blackboard. PUB 592.41: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
Prof. S. Golightly
Textbook:
Bui, Yvonne N. (2019), How to write a Master’s thesis. SAGE Publications. (ISBN: 978-1-506-3-3609-1. 3rd Edition.
MPA ON-CAMPUS TEXTBOOKS
Please check the on-campus textbooks information from the bookstore below:
MPA-Specialized Concentrations Textbooks: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Nonprofit Management (8 week)
2021 Spring 1 (1/4 - 2/28/2021)
Updated: 12/22/2020
- PUB 495.51: Foundations of Public Administration - COURSE CANCELLED
Prof. F. Prager
Textbooks:
1) Denhardt, R. B., Denhardt, J. V., & Blanc, T. A. (2014). Public administration: An action orientation (7th ed.). New York, NY: Cengage Learning.
2) Frederickson, H. G. (2010). Social equity and public administration origins, developments, and applications (e-Book). New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe. This edition is available online via the Library ProQuest ebrary database https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/csudh/detail.action?pq-origsite=primo&docID=501521 - PUB 495.52: Administration of Financial Resources
Prof. R. Leung
Textbooks:
1) Public Budgeting by David Nice and Patrick Fisher/Birkdale Publishers (2016) ISBN:978-1942456025.
Available directly from publisher - http://www.birkdalepublishers.com/
2) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020) ISBN: 978-1-4338-3216-1 (paperback) - PUB 495.53: Applied Statistics in Public Administration
Prof. F. Prager
Textbook:
Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (9781285458854): Healey, Joseph F.
https://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Research-Joseph-F-Healey/dp/1285458850
- PUB 501.51: Public Management
Dr. Hugo Asencio
Textbooks:
Hill, Carolyn J., and Lynn Jr., Laurence E. (2016). Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (2nd Ed.). Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. ISBN: 9781483344324. - PUB 572.51: Legal Issues in Health Care Administration
Prof. J. Thomas
Required Textbook:
Essentials of Health Policy and Law by Joel B. Teitelbaum and Sara E. Wilensky, 3rd Ed. (2017). ISBN:9781284087543.
Optional Textbooks:
1) Using Sources Effectively 3rd Ed. ISBN:1884585930
2) APA Manual or Little Brown Essential Handbook 7th Ed ISBN:978020543658 - PUB 582.51:Public and Nonprofit Financial Management
Prof. R. Sun
Textbook:
Finkler, S. A., Smith, D. L., & Calabrese, T. D. (2020). Financial management for public, health, and non-for-profit organizations (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press (ISBN: 9781506396811 - CJA 566.51:Issues in Homeland Security and Terrorism
Prof. T. Byrne
Textbooks:
1) Martin, G., & Prager, F. (2019). Terrorism: An International Perspective. SAGE Publications Limited.(ISBN-13: 978-1526459947; ISBN-10: 1526459949)
2) Richardson, L. (2007). What terrorists want: Understanding the enemy, containing the threat. New York, NY: Penguin Random House (ISBN-13: 978-0-812-97544-4).
* Textbooks are listed from the instructors and subject to change.