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2024 SESSION #4 (9/23 - 12/15/2024)
Public Management Emphasis (12 week)
(updated 8/23/2024)

  1. PUB 505.41: Quantitative Methods in Public Administration II
    Dr. Elena Kulikov

    Textbook:
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  2. PUB 522.41: Financial Management in the Public Sector
    Dr. Hui Li

    Textbook:
    Finkler, S. A., Calabrese, T. D., & Smith, D. L. (2023). Financial management for public, health, and non-for-profit organizations (7th ed.). CQ Press. (ISBN: 9781071835333)

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MPA ON-CAMPUS TEXTBOOKS

  1. PUB 500: Environment and Practice of Public Administration
    Dr. S. Shafi

    Textbooks:
    1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2022). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (9th ed.). Routledge (ISBN: 9781032055558)
    2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of Public Administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage (ISBN-13: 978-1305639034)

  2. PUB 501: Public Management
    Dr. H. Asencio

    Textbook:
    Hill, Carolyn J. & Lynn, Laurence E. (2016). Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions (2nd ed.). CQ PRESS, c/o SAGE (ISBN: 9781483344324)   
    NOTE: free ebook 9780470402924 from CSUDH library

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

2024 Fall 1 (9/2 - 10/27/2024)
Updated: 8/23/2024

  1. PUB 500.51/52: Environment and Practice of Public Administration II
    Dr. Rui Sun (Section 51), Dr. Z. Yang (Section 52)

    Textbooks:
    1) Rosenbloom, D. H., Kravchuk, R., & Clerkin, R. (2022). Public administration: Understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector (9th ed.). Routledge (ISBN: 9781032055558)

    2) Shafritz, J. M., & Hyde, A. C. (2017). Classics of public administration (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage (ISBN-13: 978-1305639034)

  2. PUB 503.51: Introduction to Research Methods in Public Administration
    Dr. Qiyuan Jin

    Textbooks:
    Babbie, E. R. (2021). The practice of social research (15th Edition). Cengage Learning. (ISBN-13: 978-0357360767)

    Optional: Kumar, R. (2019). Research methodology: A step-by-step guide for beginners (5th Edition). Sage Publications Limited. (ISBN-13: 9781526449900)

  3. PUB 506.51: Administration and Public Policy Analysis
    Dr. Fynn Prager

    Textbooks:
    1) Healey, J. F., & Donoghue, C. (2020). Statistics: A Tool for Social Research and Data Analysis (11th Ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN-10‏:‎ 0357371070 ISBN-13‏:‎ 978-0357371077

    2) Gary Rassel, Suzanne Leland, Zachary Mohr, and Elizabethann O’Sullivan (2021). Research methods for public administrators. New York, NY: Routledge, ISBN 978-0367334369.
     
  4. PUB 512.51: Foundations of Ethical Administration
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbooks:
    Cooper, Terry. (2012). The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 9780470873946

2024 Fall 2 (10/28 - 12/22/2024)
Updated: 10/10/2024

  1. CJA 566.51: Issues in Homeland Security and Terrorism
    Dr. 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.
  2. PUB 501.51/52: Public Management 
    Dr. Q. Jin/Prof. J. Thomas

    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.

  3. PUB 508.51: Public Human Resources Management 
    Dr. Z. Yang

    Textbooks:
    TBA
  4. PUB 572.51: Health Care and American Public Policy
    Dr. Saahir Shafi

    Textbook:
    Wilensky, Sara E. & Teitelbaum, Joel B. (2023). Essentials of Health Policy and Law (Essential Public Health) (5th). Jones & Bartlett Learning. ISBN 9781284247459
  5. PUB 584.51: Fundraising and Development for Nonprofit Organizations
    Dr. Hugo Asencio

    Textbooks:
    Tempel, Eugene R., Seiler, Timothy L., & Burlingame, Dwight F. (2016). Achieving Excellence in Fundraising (Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management) (4th). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ISBN 9781118853825.

    Sargeant, Adrian & Shang, Jen (2018). Fundraising Principles and Practice (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. ISBN 9781119196495

  6. PUB 592.51/52: Capstone: Integrative Seminar in Public Administration
    Dr. Rui Sun/Dr. Fynnwinn Prager

    Required Textbooks:
    1) Bui. Y. N. (2020). How to write a Master’s thesis (3rd ed.). SAGE Publications. (ISBN: 9781506336091)

    2) American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). (ISBN: 9781433832161)

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

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