Overview
Description
Introduction to administrative theory, politics and responsibilities; bureaucracy; and public financial and personnel administration.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recall the historical development of the modern administrative state.
- apply the vocabulary of public administration to discuss various elements of public administration.
- discuss the role of politics in administrative life experienced by the public servants at the different levels of government.
- demonstrate a grasp of the foundational literature in American public administration.
- explain the complexities of the modern administrative state in simple terms through the application of various administrative, organizational and political theories to real-world situations.
- develop skills of writing business and professional memos as a part of routine and nonroutine decisions performed by public employees at the different levels of government.