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Degree Requirements

The Executive MPA offers a work-centered curriculum that is designed to reflect the way problems realistically present themselves in the workplace. Courses are organized and planned with deliberate sequencing to maximize learning that carries over from one course to another.

I. Core Requirements (27 Credits)

  • PA 513 - Administrative Ethics and Values
  • PA 518 - Leading Public Organizations
  • PA 533 - Public Policy: Origins and Process
  • PA 534 - Administrative Law and Policy Implementation
  • PA 540 - Administrative Theory and Behavior
  • PA 545 - Organizational Development
  • PA 552 - Analytic Methods in Public Administration II
  • PA 583 - Advanced Budgeting Concepts and Techniques
  • PA 590 - Human Resource Management

II. Area of Specialization Requirements (12 credits)

Natural resource management, public safety, federal/state/local government, or other specialization based on student interests and/or needs. (See Areas of Specialization.)

  • PA 517 - Leadership Development in the Public Sector
  • PA 510 - Week-long national or international field experience
  • Two additional courses to be determined in consultation with your advisor.

III. Capstone Requirement (6 credits)

Students will register for the following two courses to complete their Capstone, a culminating project intended to demonstrate mastery of the core skills taught in the program as applied to a real-life problem of public management:

  • PA 510 - Advanced Case Analysis
  • PA 512 - Reflective Practice and Case Analysis