MPA: Economic Development and Intergovernmental Management Concentration

Program Requirements

Core

PA 605Epistemology and Research Methodology

3

PA 610Public and Administrative Law

3

PA 620Bureaucracy and Public Management

3

PA 625Public Budgeting and Finance

3

PA 640Theoretical Foundations of Public Administration

3

PA 641Ethics in Public Administration

3

PA 660Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations

3

PA 690Public Administration Internship

1

Total Credit Hours:22

Economic Development and Intergovernmental Management

RAPP 620Economic Development

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Choose four of the following:

CIS 650Innovation, Technology and Organizational Change

3

PA 611Jurisprudence

3

PA 630Politics of Public Policy

3

PA 645Seminar in Founding Fathers and American Thought

3

PA 655Community Development

3

PA 656Non-profit Organizations

3

RAPP 610Ideology and Policy Development in Appalachia

3

RAPP 611Spatial Analysis

3

RAPP 630Graduate Seminar in Regional Issues

3

RAPP 637Environmental Policy and Management

3

RAPP 670Directed Research

3

RAPP 685Advanced Environmental Education

3

SOC 620Sociology of Education

3

SOC 656Organizations in Contemporary Society

3

MNGT 612Organizational Theory

3

GOVT 600Seminar: State and Local Government

3

GOVT 612American Political Development

3

PS 600Political Science Seminar

3

Total Credit Hours:12

Research

Completion of one of the following research options (three to six credit hours required):

PA 695Research Query

3

PA 699Thesis

6

Total Credit Hours:3-6

Total Credit Hours: 40-43