Minor Requirements
Public Service Minor for Business Students, 3 courses, 9 credits
A student may choose to minor in Public Administration by completing 3 courses (9 credits)
Required Course:
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P.AD-310 Introduction to Public Service
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces students to the field of public management; including government, non-profit, and health. Topics for discussion include the role of managers in publicly controlled bureaucracies, techniques for analyzing and participating in public policy making including decision making, policy formulation, strategic planning, and implementation.
Choose two courses from the following:
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P.AD-312 Managing Public Service Financial Resources
Prerequisites:
ACCT 201 & ACCT 202, or Equivalent, and Junior standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the fundamentals of budgeting, financial management, and revenue systems in the public sector. Course goals include: A heightened awareness of the democratic ideals and value that must inform budgeting and financial management decisions, including a commitment to ethics, transparency and accountability; an understanding of the budget process and the distinctive features of budgetary decision making in the public sector; an understanding of the critical linkage between budgeting and financial management systems and the capacity of an organization to achieve its strategic goals; the ability to use the budget and financial reports as planning and management tools; knowledge of the basic principles of taxation as well as the structure and functions of federal, state, and local revenue systems. The course emphasizes knowledge and skills essential to the full range of public service careers.
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P.AD-322 Organizational Change
Prerequisites:
Junior standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Students explore small groups and organizational operations, practices, behaviors, and structure. They develop techniques for maximizing efficiency and/or effectiveness; evaluations analysis; concepts and applications of the Classicists; leadership; organizational development; and results-oriented management; as well as elements of reorganization, innovation, and change.
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P.AD-325 Nonprofit Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
The primary focus will be on understanding the operational and strategic leadership aspects of managing mission driven, public service organizations. Specific emphasis will be placed on nonprofit corporations, including coursework that explores the legal, structural, and operational issues that are particular to such organizations.
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P.AD-326 Public Service Information Based Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course demonstrates how issues, problems and questions surrounding public policies, program operations, and administrative systems can be structured as hypotheses and made amendable to resolution through the application of social science research techniques. The elements of research design such as surveys, true experiments, quasi-experiments, case studies and non-experimental studies are described, as well as sampling techniques and descriptive statistics. Ethical issues related to employment of these methods in the policy making process are also explored. The course content is presented as a way to reduce managerial uncertainty regarding alternative courses of action.
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P.AD-361 Public Service Human Resource Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course will explore complex issues in public and non-profit human resource management (HRM) by examining policies and practices that support and enhance the value and contribution of individuals in these organizations.
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P.AD-553 Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Serving On Nonprofit Boards
Credits:
1.00
Description:
Business leaders who wish to climb to the top of their companies need to have developed a philanthropic resume along the way. Serving on nonprofit Boards of Directors is one way to develop that resume. Learn about what nonprofit organizations do, what role the Board of Directors plays in their operation, and what your responsibilities would be as a member of their Board.
Students may use PAD 201 Social Change as a minor requirement if it has not been counted toward their SBS Social Change requirement.
Public Service Minor for College of Arts and Sciences Students, 3 courses, 9 credits
College of Arts and Sciences students may undertake a public service minor when they have achieved junior standing and have completed:
Required course:
-
P.AD-310 Introduction to Public Service
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces students to the field of public management; including government, non-profit, and health. Topics for discussion include the role of managers in publicly controlled bureaucracies, techniques for analyzing and participating in public policy making including decision making, policy formulation, strategic planning, and implementation.
Choose two courses from the following:
-
P.AD-312 Managing Public Service Financial Resources
Prerequisites:
ACCT 201 & ACCT 202, or Equivalent, and Junior standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course introduces the fundamentals of budgeting, financial management, and revenue systems in the public sector. Course goals include: A heightened awareness of the democratic ideals and value that must inform budgeting and financial management decisions, including a commitment to ethics, transparency and accountability; an understanding of the budget process and the distinctive features of budgetary decision making in the public sector; an understanding of the critical linkage between budgeting and financial management systems and the capacity of an organization to achieve its strategic goals; the ability to use the budget and financial reports as planning and management tools; knowledge of the basic principles of taxation as well as the structure and functions of federal, state, and local revenue systems. The course emphasizes knowledge and skills essential to the full range of public service careers.
-
P.AD-322 Organizational Change
Prerequisites:
Junior standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
Students explore small groups and organizational operations, practices, behaviors, and structure. They develop techniques for maximizing efficiency and/or effectiveness; evaluations analysis; concepts and applications of the Classicists; leadership; organizational development; and results-oriented management; as well as elements of reorganization, innovation, and change.
-
P.AD-325 Nonprofit Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
The primary focus will be on understanding the operational and strategic leadership aspects of managing mission driven, public service organizations. Specific emphasis will be placed on nonprofit corporations, including coursework that explores the legal, structural, and operational issues that are particular to such organizations.
-
P.AD-326 Public Service Information Based Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course demonstrates how issues, problems and questions surrounding public policies, program operations, and administrative systems can be structured as hypotheses and made amendable to resolution through the application of social science research techniques. The elements of research design such as surveys, true experiments, quasi-experiments, case studies and non-experimental studies are described, as well as sampling techniques and descriptive statistics. Ethical issues related to employment of these methods in the policy making process are also explored. The course content is presented as a way to reduce managerial uncertainty regarding alternative courses of action.
-
P.AD-361 Public Service Human Resource Management
Prerequisites:
Junior Standing
Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course will explore complex issues in public and non-profit human resource management (HRM) by examining policies and practices that support and enhance the value and contribution of individuals in these organizations.
-
P.AD-553 Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Serving On Nonprofit Boards
Credits:
1.00
Description:
Business leaders who wish to climb to the top of their companies need to have developed a philanthropic resume along the way. Serving on nonprofit Boards of Directors is one way to develop that resume. Learn about what nonprofit organizations do, what role the Board of Directors plays in their operation, and what your responsibilities would be as a member of their Board.
Accelerated BSBA and MPA (full-time study)
Public Service minor students may waive up to four courses (12 credits) if accepted into the Suffolk Master of Public Administration program. This enables a student to complete both the undergraduate and graduate degrees in only five years of full-time study. In order to waive courses, undergraduates must register for sections cross-listed with graduate level courses.
For more information or any questions contact:
Richard H. Beinecke, DPA, ACSW, professor and chair, Institute for Public Service, rickhbeinecke@comcast.net, 617-573-8062.
Leann Baldwin, associate director, Institute for Public Service mpa@suffolk.edu, 617-994-4273.
