MPL-582 Law, Ethics, and Decision Making in the Public Sector

Ethical and socially responsible leadership are core dimensions in the education of local and global public servants. This course provides students with the essential framework for personal and professional ethical decision making applied in the context of diverse workplaces and organizations. Through the study of ethical theories, case studies in applied ethics, and specific assignments looking at legal and ethical complexities, students will examine their personal and professional values, assess their moral intelligence, and consider the legal foundations of public service.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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MPL-510 Research Methods in Public Service

This course introduces students to the foundations of research study methods with an emphasis on research in the public sector. Concepts presented include study design and selection, data collection guidelines, and study efficacy. A review of data analysis techniques is also featured along with tips on effective presentation of study findings. Ethical issues in research are reviewed to provide greater understanding of the importance of protecting research participants as well as the crucial oversight role of institutional review boards. Students participate in critical evaluations of existing research to engage course content and demonstrate proficiency in course objectives.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Jul 2022, Oct 2022

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MSP-674 Municipal Finance

This course examines the budget function and process of county, municipal, and state finance systems; the methods used to determine the needs of the community and individual agency and resource allocation to meet those needs; measuring the capability and benchmarking of the agency; preparation and presentation of the budget; and selling the budget and needs to the county or city administration.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MPL-580 Public Service Leadership and Governance

This course examines the role of the human resource professional as a strategic partner in managing today's organizations. Key functions such as recruitment, selection, development, appraisal, retention, compensation, and labor relations are examined.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MNP-525 Project Leadership and Communications in Public Service

This course provides leadership and management guidelines for the project manager in a variety of situations. Principles of effective planning, communication, and motivation throughout the project life cycle are the focus of this course. Project Leadership and Communication presents principles of project control from initiation through execution to closure in a clear and practical manner.

Advisory: Students should have successfully completed MNP-510: Project Management in Public Service before beginning this course.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MPL-520 Program Analysis and Evaluation

This course is designed to introduce basic concepts of policy and program evaluation. These include needs assessment, program monitoring, stakeholder awareness and influence, and assessing effectiveness and efficiency. Students will examine quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research approaches. Social, political, and ethical contexts of evaluation studies will also be discussed.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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MNP-505 Organizational Management and Leadership in Public Service

This course presents a comprehensive, integrative, and practical focus on leadership and management. It is based upon a framework that analyzes leadership and management at different levels: individual leadership, team leadership, and organizational leadership. The course presents leadership and management theories/concepts that have emerged over the past several decades. In addition, students will survey contemporary perspectives on ethics, networking, coaching, organizational culture, diversity, learning organizations, strategic leadership, and crisis leadership. Special attention will be paid on examining the role that leaders play in identifying and implementing change in organizations.

Note: This course builds upon MNP-502: Leadership and Management in Public Service, although that course is not a prerequisite to MNP-505. While there is some overlap in content between the two, MNP-505 has a far greater emphasis on application and skill development than MNP-502.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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MNP-530 Human Resource Management for Public Service

This course examines the role of the human resource professional as a strategic partner in managing today's organizations. Key functions such as recruitment, selection, development, appraisal, retention, compensation, and labor relations are examined. Implications of legal and global environments are appraised and current issues such as diversity training, sexual harassment policies, and rising benefit costs are analyzed. Best practices of employers of choice are considered.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MSP-540 Advanced Studies in Healthcare

This course provides an overview of the healthcare services system in America. Topics covered are: characteristics of the U.S. health system, the role of healthcare professionals, medical technology, healthcare financing sources, healthcare delivery structures (including outpatient and primary care), inpatient facilities, managed care and integrated organizations, long-term care, services for special populations, and system outcomes such as healthcare cost, access, and quality.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MSP-542 Epidemiology

This course is an introduction to the study of the general principles, methods, and applications of epidemiology. It explores outbreak investigations, measures of infectious and chronic disease frequency, standardization of disease rates, study design, measures of association, hypothesis testing, bias, risk factors, effect modification, causal inference, disease screening, and surveillance. Case studies apply these concepts to a variety of infectious, acute, and chronic health conditions affecting the population.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MSP-664 Volunteer Management

Volunteers are the lifeblood of many public and nonprofit organizations. This course serves as an introduction to the theory and practice of the full range of volunteer management from recruiting prospective volunteers to issues surrounding the departure of a volunteer from the organization. Core issues surrounding volunteer management such as motivations, training, and risk management serve as key topics for this course.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Jul 2022

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MSP-662 Practical Grant Writing

In this course, students will practice researching, writing, budgeting, and evaluating successful grant proposals. Grant writing ethics are stressed throughout the course. While the concepts covered can be applied to business, individual, and government proposals, this course focuses on philanthropic grants to nonprofit organizations from charitable foundations. Within one week of starting class, students will be required to identify a charitable or government entity and project to serve as a subject for their own proposal. To successfully complete the course, each student will create a proposal that he or she may wish to submit to grantmaking organizations, engage in the process of identifying funders and translating technical program objectives to a lay audience, create meaningful evaluation criteria or program process, and demonstrate how his or her program matches the funder's mission.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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MSP-640 Healthcare Operations and Systems

Operations management is the design and management of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. This course presents an analysis of the operations within health service organizations like hospitals and other healthcare institutions and provides management tools and principles that are used to plan, organize, staff, and control the essential processes and systems of those healthcare organizations. The course also presents advanced techniques that can be used to manage and improve healthcare services to the benefit of both an organization and its patients. The primary areas of operations management that will be discussed include operations planning, financial management, supply and inventory management, technology management, and process and quality improvement activities. This course is focused on the technological aspects of operations, leaving human behavioral studies to other management or leadership courses.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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HLS-645 Pandemics, Bioterrorism, and Biosecurity

Resurging epidemics are now gaining national attention in a way not seen for generations. These threats join the long-standing challenge of potential domestic and foreign state sponsored biowarfare attacks on the U.S. and growing awareness of the threat of bioterrorism. This course will examine the national and international political, legal, and policy dimensions of response to these threats. It will explore how the interagency community works at local, tribal, state, national, and international levels to meet these growing challenges.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Oct 2022

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MPL-710 Public Service Capstone

Candidates for completion of the Master of Public Service Leadership (MPSL), Master of Science and Management (MSM) - Public Service Careers, and Master of Science in Homeland Security (MSHS) degree will complete a project demonstrating their conceptual, analytical, research, and practical management skills achieved through the courses in each program. The project, called a Capstone because it represents a crowning achievement much as a capstone does in architecture, is a 3-credit, one-term requirement that is completed at the end of the program. It is a closely supervised experience resulting in a paper that demonstrates the student's ability to synthesize and utilize the skills and knowledge gained in their graduate program.

Credits: 3

Delivery Methods: Online

Offered in Apr 2022, Jul 2022, Oct 2022

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