Textbooks

Please select your MPA Program Textbooks:

Updated: 6/2/2020

2020 SESSION #2 (6/29 - 8/23/2020)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 4/10/2020)

PUB 495.41: Foundations of Public Administration
Dr. Hugo Asencio

Textbook:
Rouse, J.E., Meyer, C.K. Noe, L.J., and Geerts, J.A. (2016). The Craft of Public Administration (11th ed.). Des Moines, IA: Millennium HRM Press. ISBN 9780977088188.
PUB 495.42: Applied Statistics in Public Administration
Prof. E. Kulikov

Textbook:
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PUB 495.43: Administration of Financial Resources
Prof. R. Leung
Required Textbook:
Public Budgeting by David Nice and Patrick Fisher/Birkdale Publishers, 2016 ISBN:978-1942456025.

Recommended:
APA. (2009). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Ed.)

2020 SESSION #3 (7/6 - 9/27/2020)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 6/15/2020)

PUB 501.41: Public Management
Prof. Q. Jin

Textbooks:
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PUB 506.41: Administration and Public Policy Analysis
Prof. F. Prager

Textbooks:
1) Healey, J. F. (2014). Statistics: A tool for social research. (10th ed.) Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781285458854.
2) O'Sullivan, E., Rassel, G., & Berner, M. (2016). Research methods for public administrators. Taylor & Francis. ISBN-13: 978-0205856251
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 584.41: Fundraising and Development for Nonprofit Management
Prof. E. Kieran

Textbook:
Sargeant, A., and Shang, J. (2017). Fundraising Principles and Practice. Wiley. ISBN 978-1119196495.

2020 SESSION #4 (9/28 - 12/20/2020)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 6/9/2020)

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

Textbooks:
TBA
PUB 500.41: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
Instructor: TBA

Textbooks:
TBA
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:
TBA
PUB 508.41: Public Human Resource Management
Prof. Z. Yang

Textbooks:
TBA
PUB 510.41: Public Financial Management
Prof. R. Sun

Textbooks:
TBA
PUB 527.41: Fundamentals of Qualitative Research
Prof. J. Sumner

Textbooks:
TBA
PUB 592.41: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
Prof. S. Golightly

Textbooks:
TBA

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

2020 Summer 2 (6/29 - 8/23/2020)
Updated: 4/17/2020

PUB 506.51: Administration and Public Policy Analysis
Prof. F. Prager

Textbooks:
1) Healey, J. F. (2014). Statistics: A tool for social research. (10th ed.) Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781285458854.

2) O'Sullivan, E., Rassel, G., & Berner, M. (2016). Research methods for public administrators. Taylor & Francis. ISBN-13: 978-0205856251
PUB 510.51: Public Budgeting
Prof. R. Sun

Textbook:
Title: Fiscal Administration: Analysis and Applications for the Public Sector (10th Edition) Author: Mikesell, John L. (2018).
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 978-1305953680

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

Optional: Aplia™ 1 term Instant Access for Healey's Statistic: A Tool for Social Research
https://cengage.com/c/statistics-a-tool-for-social-research-10e-healey/9781285770734
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: 6/8/2020

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:
TBA
PUB 500.51: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
Prof. R. Sun

Textbooks:
TBA
PUB 570.51: Administration of Health Care Organizations
Prof. J. Thomas

Textbooks:
TBA
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.