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Graduate Catalog 2014 - 2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Urban Studies
  

  • UST 691 - Practicum

    (1 credits)
    The practicum is intended to provide hands on learning and professional experience by providing students with the opportunity to develop a fundraising project that they complete over the course of the certificate course work.


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  • UST 692 - Capstone Seminar in Public Administration

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: departmental approval. A generalist public administration capstone course that provides a final, common experience for MPA students. Students integrate learning from the MPA core curriculum with professional practices encountered in public and nonprofit organizations. Students are expected to prepare and defend a capstone paper.


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  • UST 693 - Special Topics

    (1-4 credits)
    Special offerings varying with faculty expertise and student interest. Typical subjects include Affirmative Action in the Public Sector, Public Personnel Management, Women as Leaders, etc. Specific topics listed in the Course Schedule.


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  • UST 704 - Organizational Behavior

    (4 credits)
    Complex formal organizations are the principal social vehicle for the conduct of public affairs. This course is an introductory doctoral seminar that examines the principal conceptual and theoretical bases for understanding the behavior of complex formal organizations, especially large-scale public bureaucracies. Cross-listed with UST 604.


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  • UST 716 - Systems and Processes of Policy Development

    (4 credits)
    Study of methods used by policy makers and their staffs in formulating policy instruments; the objectives policy makers seek to accomplish; alternatives for achieving objectives. Areas of emphasis include distributional and spillover effects of policy; the political and organizational problems associated with the acceptance and implementation of policy.  Cross-listed with UST 620.


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  • UST 722 - Economic Development Policy

    (4 credits)
    An examination of the international and national competitive positions of industry; state and national industrial policy proposals; various approaches to economic development and industrial policy. Cross-listed with PAD 622 and PDD 622.


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  • UST 723 - Urban Development Finance

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites. UST 603 and UST 610. Financing, deal structuring, and analysis of public subsidy for urban real estate projects using discounted cash flow analysis. Also includes preparation of a comprehensive report and the presentation of an urban real estate project. Crosslisted with UST 623.


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  • UST 726 - Workforce Development

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite. UST 603 or equivalent. Workforce development takes place on both the supply and demand sides of the labor market. The demand side deals with the expressed needs of employers for specific skill types. The supply side is divided into efforts to upgrade the skills of incumbent workers and to inculcate marketable skills to new workers. A practical examination of the state of the art in workforce development strategies, policies, and programs. Cross-listed with UST 626.


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  • UST 731 - Law and Public Administration

    (4 credits)
    Administrative law as the body of rules and prescriptions for public agencies. The evolution and development of American administrative law, its substance, and the role of administrative law in the governing process.  Cross-listed with UST 631.


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  • UST 733 - Budget Policy and Management

    (4 credits)
    This course covers public budgeting and financial management in the context of America’s political economy. It explores the issue of what should be the appropriate role of the government in the economy and in society. It reviews American capitalism and democracy, their historical evolution, and the policy and budgetary tools available to political leaders and public administrators. It reviews sources of revenue, patterns of expenditure and the debt structure of American governmental units. It also includes an examination of budgetary processes, formats, and accounting systems. The course should provide a solid financial decision making foundation for non-financial managers and for students seeking careers in professions and organizations requiring knowledge of public finance and budgeting. Cross-listed with UST 633.


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  • UST 734 - Ethics in the Public Sector

    (4 credits)
    Provides students with an understanding of the ethical dimensions of public administration and helps students develop the awareness, skills, and value framework to act ethically in a public or private sector management role.  Cross-listed with UST 634.


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  • UST 752 - Environmental Policy and Administration

    (4 credits)
    A comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to the values, preferences, and economic interests that underlie the formulation of environmental policy. Local, regional, state, national, and global issues are examined and characterized with emphasis on the national and state levels. Cross-listed with UST 652.


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  • UST 753 - Environmental Planning II

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: UST 553 or permission of the instructor. An advanced course designed for students with knowledge of ecological processes or relevant environmental fields. The course features regional ecological infrastructure and landscape scale. Typical topics include watershed management, land-use change and ecological impacts, and regional open space and habitat preservation. The course provides an opportunity to apply planning processes and techniques such as suitability analysis, GIS mapping, risk assessment, or environmental impact assessment through a project exercise. Cross-listed with UST 653.


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  • UST 760 - Neighborhood Planning

    (4 credits)
    The process and techniques for the creation and implementation of neighborhood development plans with an emphasis on Cleveland neighborhoods, neighborhood organizations, and neighborhood planning. An introduction to the local government organizations and private institutions that support neighborhood planning and federal, state, and local programs that fund neighborhood planning and development programs. Students participate in field research on a selected neighborhood project. Cross-listed with UST 660.


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  • UST 762 - Urban Housing Policy

    (4 credits)
    Focuses on the evolution of urban housing policy, the policies which shape the existing housing system, and proposals for modifying housing policy and programs. Housing policy developments are related to broad ideological and political changes since the 1960s. Considers major aspects of the current housing situation, including financing, production, affordability, preservation, and discrimination. Cross-listed with UST 662 .


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  • UST 771 - Political Philosophy and Public Administration

    (4 credits)
    Examines the writings of major political philosophers and the way in which they have helped shape discourse in public administration. Students become more aware of the character of the presuppositions regarding the nature of a state, which undergird the writings of various public administration scholars. Ideas regarding the composition, authority, and engagements of government and administration, as well as the rights and obligations of citizens, are discussed drawing on original writings from different schools of philosophy, including rationalism, empiricism, positivism, utilitarianism, romanticism, pragmatism, idealism, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Students are encouraged to see how these ideas can be discerned in the public administration literature and how they affect the way in which the character and tasks of contemporary public administration are viewed. Cross-listed with UST 831.


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  • UST 800 - Urban Theory

    (4 credits)
    Acquaints students with the approaches used by the social sciences in examining urban problems. Faculty from the fields of political science, public administration, economics, sociology, and planning participate jointly in presenting and discussing their diverse conceptual and research approaches to the analysis of urban problems.


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  • UST 802 - Logic of Inquiry

    (4 credits)
    Doctoral-level seminar focusing on the paradigmatic (metatheoretical assumptions of Public Administration theorists). The course examines classifications of such assumptions and their implications for the conduct of research and the structure of findings. Different schools of thought in public administration are examined paradigmatically.


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  • UST 803 - Quantitative Research Methods I

    (4 credits)
    Examines statistical models designed to assess a single outcome or criterion variable: bivariate and multiple regression; N-Way and factorial ANOVA; repeated measures ANOVA; and analysis of covariance of the General Linear Model. Examines the analysis and interpretation of a variety of data sets using each of these procedures.


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  • UST 806 - Research Methods In Urban Studies

    (4 credits)
    Provides a basic understanding of methods for conducting empirical social science research. Covers the process of social science research, the conduct of the enterprise, obstacles to empirical research, analysis and interpretation of data, and ethical issues in social science research.


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  • UST 810 - Urban Policy and Development Seminar

    (4 credits)
    The empirical and theoretical field of economic development of advanced industrial economies. Review of economic development literature and current practice. Required seminar for major or minor field in Economic Development.


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  • UST 820 - Seminar in Housing Policy and Programs

    (4 credits)
    A review and analysis of federal, state, and local housing policies and programs in the United States since the 1930s. Key policy issues and the economic, political, and social factors which affect policy outcomes. Required seminar for major or minor field in Housing and Neighborhood Development.


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  • UST 830 - Public Administration Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Explores the literature of public administration. How major pieces of literature relate to the period in which they were written and to the intellectual traditions on which the authors built. Economic, political, and social factors affecting major policy issues. Required seminar for major or minor field in Public Administration/Budgeting.


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  • UST 831 - Political Philosophy and Public Administration

    (4 credits)
    Examines the writings of major political philosophers and the way in which they have helped shape discourse in public administration. It seeks to help students become more aware of the character of the presuppositions regarding the nature of a state, which undergird the writings of various public administration scholars. Ideas regarding the composition, authority, and engagements of government and administration, as well as the rights and obligations of citizens, are discussed drawing on original writings from different schools of philosophy, including rationalism, empiricism, positivism, utilitarianism, romanticism, pragmatism, idealism, analytical philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism. Students are encouraged to see how these ideas can be discerned in the public administration literature and how they affect the way in which the character and tasks of contemporary public administration are viewed. Cross-listed with UST 771.


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  • UST 835 - Organization Theory for Public Administration

    (4 credits)
    An intensive review of major milestones in the organizational literature that have influenced public administration theory and practice. Theoretical perspectives include classic-bureaucratic, scientific management, human relations, sociotechnical, leadership, constructionist, and post-modern. Emphasis on developing a critical perspective and understanding the impact and implications of organizational theory for public administration.


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HPERD- Special Topics
  
 

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