CJ 5000. Law and Social Control. A general introduction to the nature of law, legal institutions, and legal processes as one among multiple systems of social control; consideration of various theories of intrepretation, application, and enforcement of law; the structure and function of legal institutions.

CJ 5100. Administration of Criminal Justice. Analysis of the policies and practices of agencies involved in the criminal justice process from detection of crime and arrest of suspects through prosecution, adjudication, sentencing, and imprisonment to release. The patterns of decision and practices are reviewed in the context of the entire criminal justice system.

CJ 5110. Criminal Justice Planning and Evaluation. Techniques for assessing the probability and desirability of future possible states of society, and particularly of social control systems, will be considered in relation to the goals of the criminal justice system.

CJ 5120. Nature and Causes of Crime. Survey of theories of crime causation ranging through biological, psychological, sociological, cultural, and political theories. Close attention to the problems inherent in approaching the study of crime from a cause of crime perspective.

CJ 5320. Seminar: Police Administration. The role of the police in a rapidly changing society, relationship between services, the courts, and correctional administration.

CJ 5321. Research in the Criminal Justice Process. Examination of current research in criminal justice; problems in the implementation of research findings.

CJ 5510. Seminar: Contemporary Law Enforcement. Strategies for implementing new programs directed at social control and crime prevention. Experiences in programmatic innovations and revolutionary interventions in law enforcement adminstration; case histories of past efforts at radical change and experimentation, emphasis on implementation strategy and consequences of innovation.

CJ 5520. Seminar in Corrections. Contemporary correctional practice and its evolution, development of correctional programs; alternatives to incarceration, probation, jails, prisons, and parole.

CJ 5530. Community-Based Corrections. Theory and practice of probation and parole; examination of efforts to create mixtures of institutional settings and normal community life.

CJ 5551. Judical Administration. An analysis of judicial organization, court administration, and criminal court judges as participants in the operation of the criminal justice process; attention to the prosector and public defender systems.

P.Ad. 5005. Democracy and Policy Making. This new core class provides students with an overview of governmental policy-making processes. This course is not intended to be a course on "How to be a policy analyst." Instead, students recognize that policy-making in the United States occurs in a great number of venues and involves all types of individuals and groups. The focus is complex constitutional and political context that public administrators must understand to develop and implement effective policy at all levels of government. The goal of this broader study of "policy-making" is not to develop analytical experise, but to give practitioners the knowledge they need about the policy process and about important policy issues.

P.Ad. 501-3. Public Service in a Complex Society. It is a time of rapid change, resource limitations, and questioning of the roles of government and nonprofit organizations in American society. I such a time, it is essential for practit ioners and citizens to understand the history, nature, and scope of public service. This course explores the creation of American public and nonprofit institutions, the ways agencies are structured and managed, the relationship of the public sector to th e nonprofit and private sectors, and the role of professional managers in the challenging contemporary setting.

P.Ad. 502-3. Tools for Analysis. Public administrators are bombarded with statistics which are often used to present different, if not conflicting, points of view. Rather than being the passive and confused recipient of such statistics, today's public administrators need to be proactive in interpreting and analyzing data and establishing databases which serve their information needs. This course will familiarize students with commonly-used descriptive and inferential statistics and the means for interpreting and using these statistics. The student will employ user-friendly software and microcomputers to explore, analyze and interpret data to answer public policy questions of interest. For any given problem, the student will be able to select the appropriate statistic(s) to answer the problem, use computer software to obtain the statistic, and interpret the results. Students will also learn how to use the computer to establish information systems to provide information for decision ma king.

P.Ad. 503-3. Organization Theory and Management. Under the pressures to increase productivity with ever diminishing resources and the constant watch of the public eye, public administrators face constant, dilemmas over issues of leading and motivating subordinates, of making decisions in what are often highly political environments, of communicating effectively, and of managing the constant flow of change. This course examines these issues.

P.Ad. 504-3. Research and the Uses of Technology. Managers in public and nonprofit organizations make important decisions about responding to community needs or demands, about the programs they offer, about the effects of policy decisio ns. These managers must have the ability to structure, supervise, and utilize research and information. They must understand the information resources available to them and be able to access those resources. Students will learn the types of questions w hich can be answered by research, how to develop their questions or hypotheses and find existing research relevant to their topic, and the means for designing the study and collecting data in a valid and reliable manner. They use the new resources made a vailable through technology to grapple with applied research issues.

P.Ad. 508-3. Financial Management and Resource Bases for Nonprofit Organizations.Nonprofit organizations depend on philanthropic, governmental, and fee-based funding. This course will address the nature and the implications of these alte rnatives, as well as planning and budgeting for resource adequacy. The role of governmental regulation and funding for the nonprofit sector will be a key focus. The course also covers the theory and practice of fund raising and development among nonprof it organizations.

P.Ad. 509-3. Economics and Public Policy. This course uses case materials to illustrate the application of microeconomics to public sector management and decision making. Topics covered will include estimation of demand and cost of publ ic services, pricing mechanisms for publicly produced goods and services, evaluation of government regulation, and the use of benefit-cost analysis and decision analysis to evaluate public policy.

P.Ad. 511-3. Ethics and Public Management. Places as they are in the public fishbowl, and surrounded by a renewed interest in right and wrong, public administrators are constantly faced with ethical questions and dilemmas. This course lo oks both at age old ethical problems as well as issues facing administrators in the public setting today. It builds on the ethical framework of the Founding Fathers to consider issues relevant to the practice of Public Administration today.

P.Ad. 513-3. Managing Nonprofit Organizations. Designed for CEO's, senior staff, and persons pursuing senior management positions with nonprofit organizations, this course covers the principles and techniques of successful nonprofit manag ement. Topics include such issues as Board selection, and governance, strategic planning, marketing and public relations, business management and fund accounting, the use of consultants, personnel policies, fund raising and resource development.

P.Ad. 514-3. Theory of the Nonprofit Sector. This course provides students with the theoretical underpinnings of the third sector, tracing the emergence of the nonprofit sector, and investigating its historical development and contempora ry dilemmas. The new frontiers of nonprofit theory dealing with collaboration, community, and globalization, will also be addressed. The course focuses on the role of values in nonprofit organizations, and it emphasizes the special ethical concerns of n onprofit managers.

P.Ad. 516-3. Nonprofit Sector Human Resources Management. Nonprofit organizations face complex and challenging personnel and human resources issues. The technical knowledge and interpersonal skills involved in managing personnel have bec ome extremely complex and challenging. This course probes the underlying values and techniques associated with employee recruitment, selection, motivation, training, affirmative action, compensation, benefits, performance appraisal, and related topics.

P.Ad. 522-3. Public Sector Human Resources Management. The technical knowledge and interpersonal skills involved in managing public sector personnel have become extremely complex and challenging. This course probes the underlying values and techniques associated with public employee recruitment, selection, motivation, training, affirmative action, compensation, benefits, performance appraisal, and related topics.

P.Ad. 523-3. Financial Management in the Public Sector. The use of financial resources is at the heart of governing; policy decisions are meaningful only when resources are provided to implement them. The course examines American public sector finance in relation to other nations; the national government and fiscal well-being; types of budgeting systems and their uses; creation of the national budget; structure of the local government budget; and selected topics such as debt and cash ma nagement, accounting for resource use, and forecasting financial condition.

P.Ad. 524-3. Administrative Law. This course examines the development of American administrative law and its relationship to regulations and legislative/administrative processes. Students will study the nature of the legal process and it s compatibility with the administrative process, and exposure to the regulatory process and its impact on the delivery of public programs will be included.

P.Ad. 525-3. Intergovernmental Management. Relationships between governmental agencies, between governmental agencies and nonprofit and private organizations, and between divisions of large agencies are an important part of public governa nce. This course provides structural knowledge of the American intergovernmental system, combined with a focus on the nature of interactions between professionals who deal with intergovernmental policy issues and program management.

P.Ad. 531-3. Public Policy Formulation and Implementation. Government plays a large part in the lives of citizens through policy decisions in a wide range of issue areas such as social welfare, national defense, education, growth and dev elopment of communities, etc. The process of generating support for public policies, formulating and implementing public programs, and the substance of a variety of policy issues at the national and local levels are subjects of the course.

P.Ad. 533-3. Intermediate Statistical Analysis. This course develops basic competence in correlation and multiple regression. Other topics in multivariate analysis may be included. Prer.,P.Ad. 502 and 504.

P.Ad. 535-3. Program Evaluation. In this course students will review different models of program evaluation including decision oriented, qualitative, and participative models. Students then plan and/or conduct an evaluation study using a pplied methods. Prer., P.A.d 502 and 504.

P.A.d. 537-3 Workshop in Management Development.With a focus on the balance between one's personal and professional life, this course seeks to identify and apply principles out of which public managers can increase their effectiveness. Considering such issues as stress management, creative problem solving, time management, cooperative work strategies, effective listening, decision-making, and mechanisms for increasing power, this course has a strong focus on enabling students to persona lly apply the concepts considered.

P.Ad. 541-3. Environmental Policy and Administration. In this course students will review the political environment of environmental policy-making and regulation. They will also address models of environmental policy-making, public input and environmental politics, regulating air, water, waste, and energy, environmental mediation, and other selected topics.

P.Ad. 543-3. Environmental Economics.In this class students will examine the economic basis for and possible solutions to environmental problems. Specific environmental policy areas to be discussed include air pollution, water pollution, hazardous wastes, toxic substances, materials recycling, sustainable development, and preservation.

P.Ad. 545-3. Medical Care Organization. This course is an introduction to the structure and function of the medical care delivery system. Discussion will focus on basic concepts of medical care organization, values, needs, and utilizati on, issues in health care manpower, institutions, and system organization. General issues in public policy, reimbursement, and regulation, and broad community and organizational considerations in medical care organization will be discussed.

P.Ad. 546-3. Health Economics.This course provides an intensive analysis of issues in health economics, with primary emphasis on microeconomic considerations. Discussions will focus on the demand, supply, distribution, and production of health services, inflation, and the economics of health care policy.

P.Ad. 547-3. Health Care Institutional Management. In this course students will examine the structure, organization, and management of health care institutions including ownership, administration, professional and nonprofessional departme nts, and personnel.

P.Ad. 548-3. Health Planning.This course is an introduction to basic planning theories and methodologies including data analysis and various approaches to problem solving. Planning activities (such as institutional, area wide, and opera tional) will be discussed , as will major legislative planning initiatives.

P.Ad. 554-3. Organization Development. This course begins with a study of the dynamics involved in managing and facilitating change in organizations by application of behavioral science knowledge. Emphasis is placed on both cognitive and experiential learning. A background in organization theory and administrative behavior is required.

P.Ad. 5615. Health Policy. This course will address the question: "What is America's health policy and how is health policy impacted by politics?" It is designed for students from the public and non-profit sectors who have an interest in health issues. Course readings and discussion will focus on culture, power, and politics in the social construction of health financing and delivery. Specific areas covered include Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, interest groups, federal issues, and state issues in health policy.

P.Ad. 562-3. The Politics of Urban Management.Who governs the community, and who benefits? The course deals with these questions by exploring the development of cities, race, wealth, and power in urban America; community politics and cit izen participation in policy making; and the role of the public professional in the political life of the American community.

P.Ad. 567-3. Marketing Nonprofit Organizations. Increasing competition for resources compels nonprofit executives and volunteers to understand and incorporate the principles of marketing. Marketing principles guide third sector groups th rough vital operations including environmental assessments and strategic planning in order to meet the needs of their constituencies and operate successfully. The course will include class discussions bases on assigned reading, practical application of p rinciples, and lectures and discussions with guest speakers from nonprofit organizations, and public and private sectors.

P.Ad. 576-3. Leadership Workshop. This skill building workshop focuses on issues of effective leadership in the organizational setting and enables participants to examine their own leadership style(s) and how those styles influence others . Models of effective leadership are examined and applied to the specific work settings of those participating, with distinctions between leadership and management being developed.

P.Ad. 580-3. Guided Reading in Public Administration.This course is for students who wish to examine in depth a topic or idea in the field of public administration which is covered briefly or not at all in the regular course offerings. T he student should have a topic in mind and the method of approaching the study is determined by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Prer., consent of instructor.

P.Ad. 595-1 to 3. Workshop in Public Administration. Mini courses to develop skills in public administration.

P.Ad. 598-1. Major Public Policy Issues in Southern Colorado. This course is an exercise in applying concepts about community governance to contemporary local public policy issues. The primary learning objective is to give students the tools to understand policy issues as citizens and as professionals. Topical areas include: What should be the size and scope of government?, How should we manage or control growth?, How can we protect and improve community life? and What should be the role of public professionals in the community?

P.Ad. 598. Special Topics in Public Administration. A study of special topics relevant to public administration or nonprofit organization administration. Various topics are studied each semester.

P.Ad. 599-3. Field Study in Public Administration. For students who have not had substantial public or nonprofit experience at the administrative level. Prer., completion of the required core courses. It is recommended that at least th ree of the track courses be completed.

P.Ad. 701-3. Capstone Seminar. This course presents students with the opportunity to apply knowledge gained in coursework to a question of interest drawn from their future or current careers in public or nonprofit organizations. Class me mbers identify a problem or policy issue, design a solution or program in a major seminar paper, and present the results to the professor and the class. This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate what they have learned and apply it t o the problems that most interest them, working in a collaborative environment with faculty and other students. This course must be taken during the last two semesters of a student's program.

P.Ad. 960-1 to 3. Independent Study in Public Administration. This course is intended for those who wish to undertake an agency project for elective credit. Prer.,consent of advisor.

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