Textbooks

Please select your MPA Program Textbooks:

MPA Online (Public Management Emphasis - 12 week)
MPA Online (Specialized Concentrations - 8 week)
MPA On-Campus (16 week)

2020 SESSION #4 (9/28 - 12/20/2020)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 8/21/2020)

PUB 495.44: Foundations of Public Administration
Prof. R. Azizi

Textbooks:
1. Shafritz, J.M, Russell, E.W, & Borick, CP. Introducing public administration (8th). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. ISBN:9780205855896
2. Stillman II, R.J. Public Administration: Concepts and cases. (9th). Boston, MA: Wadsworth. ISBN:9780618993017
PUB 500.41: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
Instructor: Z. Yang

Textbooks:
1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2015). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill (ISBN-13: 978-0-07-337915-9).
2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning (ISBN-13: 978-1-305-63903-4) (note that this edition has 54 chapters/articles).
PUB 501.42: Public Management
Dr. Hugo Asencio

Textbook:
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 504.41: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration
Prof. E. Kulikov

Textbooks:
Please check the course Syllabus in Blackboard.
PUB 508.41: Public Human Resource Management
Prof. Z. Yang

Textbook:
Berman, E.M., Bowman, J.S., West, J.P., and Van Wart, M.R. (2016). Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
PUB 510.41/42: Public Financial Management
Prof. R. Sun (Section 41) and Prof. R. Leung (Section 42)

Textbook:
Mikesell, J. L. (2018). Fiscal administration: Analysis and applications for the public sector (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning (ISBN: 978-1-305-95368-0).
PUB 527.41: Fundamentals of Qualitative Research
Prof. J. Sumner

Textbook:
Hesse-Biber, S.N. (2017). The practice of qualitative research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
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.

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MPA ON-CAMPUS TEXTBOOKS

Please check the on-campus textbooks information from the bookstore below:

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MPA-Specialized Concentrations Textbooks: Criminal Justice, Health Care, and Nonprofit Management (8 week)

2020 Fall 1 (8/24 - 10/18/2020)
Updated: 7/8/2020

PUB 495.51: Foundations of Public Administration
Prof. G. Ackerman

Textbooks:
1) Shafritz, J.M., Russell, E.W., and Borick, C.P. (2013). Introducing Public Administration (8th Edition). 9780205855896
(2) Stillman II, R.J. (2010). Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. (9th Edition). 978-0618993017
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.
2) Recommended: APA. (2009). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Ed.)
PUB 495.53: Applied Statistics in Public Administration
Prof. C. Sneed

Textbooks:
Healey Joseph F. Statistics: A Tool for Social Research,10th Ed. ISBN13: 978128545885

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PUB 512.51: 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.

2020 Fall 2 (10/26 - 12/20/2020)
Updated: 9/22/2020

PUB 592.51: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
Prof. F. Prager

Textbook:
Bui. Y. N. (2014). How to write a Master’s thesis (2nd ed.). SAGE Publication. (ISBN-13: 978-1-4522-0351-5).
CJA 563.51: Administrative Law, Policy, and Analysis
Prof. T. Byrne

Textbooks:
1) Hall, D. E. (2020), Administrative law: Bureaucracy in a democracy (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education. ISBN: 9780135186329

2) Kraft, M.E., & Furlong, S.R. (2021). Public policy: Politics, analysis, and alternatives (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781544374604
PUB 500.51: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
Prof. R. Sun

Textbooks:
1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2015). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill (ISBN-13: 978-0-07-337915-9).
2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage (ISBN-13: 978-1-305-63903-4) (note that this edition has 54 chapters/articles).
PUB 570.51: Administration of Health Care Organizations
Prof. J. Thomas

Textbooks:
Introduction to Health Care Management 3rd, (2015) Authors: Sharon B. Buchbinder and Nancy H. Shanks, ISBN: 9781284081015.
PUB 580.51: Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Dr. Hugo Asencio

Textbooks:
1) Renz, David O. (2016). The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (4th edition). Hoboken, NJ: Jossey-Bass. ISBN # 978-1-118-85296-5.
2) Rowe, W. Glen, and Conway, Mary. (2013). Introduction to Nonprofit Management: Text and Cases. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. ISBN #978-1-4129-9923-6.

* Textbooks are listed from the instructors and subject to change.

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