Ohio State Master Schedule of Classes/Course Offerings Bulletin
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730 Public Finance - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17815 | MoWe | 3:00-4:18PM | Page Hall 0040 | SELIGMAN,J |
| 17816 | MoWe | 7:00-8:18PM | Page Hall 0020 | SELIGMAN,J |
Comprehensive survey and analysis of the principle fiscal activities of contemporary government; logic of public sector activity, taxation principles and practice, intergovernmental relations and current fiscal problems. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 830 or Econ 501A and graduate standing, or permission of instructor.
Textbook: Public Finance and Public Policy, 3rd Edition, by Jonathan Gruber. ISBN: 1429219491 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 730 Syllabus WI12
801 Public Policy Formulation and Implementation - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17873 | Mo | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0060 | DEMARIA,P |
Provides in-depth understanding of the public policy making processes, the U.S. federal system of inter-governmental relations, the dynamics of public organization, and the legislative and implementation history of one particular contemporary public law.
Textbook: An Introduction to the Policy Process: Theories, Concepts, and Models of Public Policy Making, by Thomas A. Birkland. ISBN: 9780765625328 (Required? Yes)
A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving, 4th Edition, by Eugene Bardach. ISBN: 9780608718429 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus:
801 Syllabus WI12
804 Public and Non-Profit Program Evaluation - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17817 | TuTh | 3:30-4:48PM | Page Hall 0040 | BOARDMAN,C |
| 17818 | TuTh | 7:00-8:19PM | Page Hall 0020 | BOARDMAN,C |
| 17868 | Tu | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0010 | SCHULKE-LEECH,B |
Provides an understanding of the conceptual, methodological, bureaucratic, political, and organizational issues surrounding evaluation research. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 801.
Textbook: Evaluation, 2nd Edition, by Carol Weiss. ISBN: 0133097250 (Required? Yes)
Research Methods: The Concise Knowledge Base, 1st Edition, by William Trochim. ISBN: 9781592601462
(Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 804 Syllabus WI12
809 Policy Problem Seminar 2 - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17819 | Mo | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0130 | MOULTON,S |
Students will have an opportunity to engage in activities designed to foster skills related to the effective presentation of the analytic results to various stakeholders. Such written documents may include the following: executive summaries, policy memoranda, op-ed articles, constituent letters, written testimony, and press releases. Additionally, 809 will encompass a variety of communication modalities such as oral testimony, policy briefings, and press conferences. Prerequisite: PUBAFRS 808.
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Syllabus: 809 Syllabus WI12
810 Managing Public Organizations - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17820 | TuTh | 1:30-2:48PM | Page Hall 0040 | RAADSCHELDERS,J |
| 17821 | TuTh | 5:30-6:48PM | Page Hall 0020 | RAADSCHELDERS,J |
| 17822 | Th | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0010 | MOULTON,S |
This course is designed to enable you to diagnose problems and identify strategies to improve the performance and operation of public sector organizations. Through the course, you will acquire or hone some of the skills needed to be a successful manager in a rapidly changing public sector. We will focus primarily on public organizations in the United States, although we will also address strategic issues for private and non-profit organizations with public missions. We will build from the traditional strategic planning approach of identifying "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats" to examine the current "state of the art" in strategic management reform in the public sector.
Textbook: Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 4th Edition, by Hal Rainey. ISBN: 9780470402924 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 810 Syllabus WI12 Raadschelders
Syllabus: 810 Syllabus WI12 Moulton
820 Data Analysis for Public Policy and Management - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26341 | Tu | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0040 | DESAI,A |
Introduction to types of problems encountered in public policy and management; problem formulation and basic research methods tools required to tackle them.
Textbook: Seeing Through Statistics, by Jessica Utts. ISBN: 0534394027 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 820 Syllabus WI12
821 Governmental Information Systems Administration - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26342 | Th | 5:30-8:18PM | PA 0040 | LANDSBERGEN,D |
Critical study of the administration and design of management information systems for public agencies; selected case studies.
Textbook: Public Administration and Information Technology, by Christopher G. Reddick. ISBN: 9780763784607 (Required? Yes)
Microsoft Access 2010 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)), by Joan Lambert III and Joyce Cox. ISBN: 0735626928 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 821 Syllabus WI12
822 Multivariate Data Analysis for Public Policy and Management - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17823 | MoWe | 1:30-2:48PM | Page Hall 0040 | GREENBAUM,R |
| 17872 | MoWe | 5:30-6:48PM | Page Hall 0040 | GREENBAUM, R |
Introduction to types of problems encountered in public policy and management; problem formulation and basic research methods tools required to tackle them.
Textbook: Essentials of Economics, 4th Edition, by Damodar Gujarati and Dawn Porter. ISBN: 9780073375847 (Required? Yes)
Multiple Regression: A Primer, by Paul Allison. ISBN: 9780761985334 (Required? No)
A Guide to Econometrics by Peter Kennedy. ISBN: 9781405182577 (Required? No)
Syllabus: 822 Syllabus WI12
830 Economics of Public and Non-Profit Management - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17874 | We | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0240 | PETRAS, T |
Economic analysis applied to problems of public policy selection and government management operations; efficiency criteria, market failure, and public choice applied to administrative decision-making.
Textbook: Microeconomics, 7th Edition, by Pindyck and Rubinfield. ISBN: 9780132080231 (Required? Yes)
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830 Syllabus WI12
834 Public Budgeting - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26343 | MoWe | 5:30-6:48PM | PA 0010 | SELIGMAN,J |
Budgeting as analysis of resource allocation, planning evaluation, and control; tools of analysis for program budgeting and measurement of program results; case studies. Prerequisite: PUBPOLM 830 or equivalent.
Textbook: Fiscal Administration, 8th Edition, by John Mikesell. ISBN: 0495795828 (Required? Yes)
The Politics of Budgeting, 6th Edition, by Irene Rubin. ISBN: 9781604264616 (Required? Yes)
Budget Tools: Financial Methods in the Public Sector, by Greg G. Chen, Dall W. Forsythe, Lynne A. Weikart and Daniel W. Williams. ISBN: 9780872895393 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 834 Syllabus WI12
852 Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting - 4 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17824 | We | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0060 | ARMSTRONG,C |
Fund accounting pertaining to federal, state, and local governments, colleges and universities, hospitals, health and welfare organizations.
Textbook: Instructions to Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting, 6th Edition, by Johnson Ives and Hosh Razek. ISBN: 9780132366359 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus:
852 Syllabus WI12
880.05 Science and Technology - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CANCELLED |
This course would be of interest to science, engineering, public management, and business students who want to understand science and technology policy making either to influence, participate, or take advantage of the resources that are available. This course would also be of interest to students who are
interested in potentially working in federal or state science and technology policy as well as students who are potentially interested in research and research management careers and want to understand how the national R&D enterprise operates.
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880.05 Innovation and Entrepreneurship - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26344 | Th | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 130 | WIRICK,D |
This policy forum explores the role of innovation in the public sector. It describes types of innovation that public agencies and not-for-profit organizations can aspire to, examines the constraints on innovation in the public sector, describes a variety of innovation-enhancing mechanisms and models, and creates a comprehensive model for making agencies and organizations more responsive and better able to serve the public.
The course will progress from a review of innovation movements within the public sector to an examination of the current public environment and the need for innovation. Course readings will consider theoretical frameworks for public-sector innovation, innovation as defined by the business press, and examples of innovation in public-sector organizations. We will examine the drivers and enablers of innovation in public and private organizations, the experiences of public innovators, and the characteristics of public-sector innovations. Last, we’ll examine the characteristics of innovative organizations and tools for making public organizations and not-for-profit organizations more innovative.
Textbook: No textbook.
Syllabus: 880.05 Syllabus WI12
880.06 Fundraising and Development - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17825 | Th | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 0060 | OVERMEYER,L |
This course is designed to introduce students to development and fundraising strategies, processes and systems. The skills and knowledge in this course have broad applicability to those interested in working in or with nonprofit organizations, public organizations, universities, nonprofit foundations and/or corporate foundations.
Textbook: Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, 3rd Edition, by Eugene R. Tempel, Timothy L. Seiler, Eva E. Aldrich and Paulette Maehara. ISBN: 0470551739 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 880.06 Syllabus WI12
880.06 Ph.D. Seminar in Organization Theory - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17876 | We | 9:30AM-12:30PM | Page Hall 0240 | BOARDMAN,C |
This course provides a survey of the major perspectives in organizational theory and their application to public management. While organizational theory is too broad to completely cover in a one-quarter course, through overview chapters and some of the classics of the field we will cover much of the diversity of organizational theory perspectives. We will also identify a handful of the “big questions” in public management as we progress and apply basic organizational theories to address these questions.
Textbook: Organizations: Structures, Processes and Outcomes, 10th Edition, by Pamela S. Tolbert and Richard Hall. ISBN: 0132448408 (Required? Yes)
Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives, by W. Richard Scott and Gerald F. Davis.
ISBN: 0131958933 (Required? Yes)
Classics of Organization Theory, 7th Edition, by Jay M. Shafritz, J. Steven Ott and Yong Suk Yang. ISBN: 0495569410 (Required? Yes)
All Organizations Are Public: Comparing Public and Private Organizations, by Barry Bozeman. ISBN: 1587982331 (Required? Yes)
Syllabus: 880.06 Syllabus WI12
880.06 Ph.D. Seminar in Pedagogy - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26340 | Tu | 9:30-11:30AM | Page Hall 110B | HALLIHAN,K |
This interactive seminar assists advanced graduate students in meeting instructional responsibilities and developing the necessary skills for college-level teaching in Public Affairs. Students will learn practical pedagogical strategies and skills for teaching, such as course and lesson planning, leading discussions, grading, assignment design, and dealing with classroom challenges. Students will also begin developing professional materials such as a teaching portfolio, and delve into theoretical and interdisciplinary aspects of teaching in Public Affairs.
Textbook: How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, by Susan A. Ambrose, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro and Marsha C. Lovett. ISBN: 0470484101 (Required? No)
Teaching and Learning in the College Classroom, 3rd Edition, by Welkener, Kalish and Bandeen. ISBN: 0558575498 (Required? No)
Syllabus: 880.06 Syllabus WI12
880.07 Markets or Mandates?: The Political Economy of Regulation, Deregulation, and Reregulation - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17875 | Tu | 5:30-8:18PM | Page Hall 340 | JONES,D |
The economic regulation of industries and business activities has been a major governmental practice in the U.S. for well over a century. Two service sectors of great importance to the economy that historically have been a focus of regulation are the public utilities (electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, and water) and financial institutions. The main object of such oversight is consumer protection, broadly conceived, and looking after the public interest: the main structures employed are multi-member regulatory commissions (e.g., Federal Communications Commission, Securities Exchange Commission) or single-administrator agencies (e.g., Treasury, Environmental Protection Agency). The last twenty-five years, however, have seen a reexamination of how best to achieve these goals – specifically when and where to employ various market competition mechanisms to replace direct intervention and continuous oversight. The result has been perhaps a paradigm shift to relaxed regulation (sometimes outright deregulation) and major reliance on markets in the utility (energy and telecommunications) and financial (banking and investment) fields. While trusting to market solutions in these sectors has provided some success stories, in other instances the results have been very uneven and occasionally (as we have learned) calamitous. This course examines the strengths and limitations of each approach – mandates and markets -- the occasion for and evolution of their policy development, and the prospects for regulation, deregulation, and re-regulation in the U.S. economy.
Textbook: Coursepack can be purchased at either the Barnes and Noble Bookstore in the Gateway or, the Central Classroom Bookstore.
Syllabus: 880.07 Syllabus WI12
890 Ph.D. Seminar on Logic of Inquiry - 5 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time | Building/Room | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17827 | Mo | 9:30AM-12:18PM | Page Hall 0240 | DESAI,A |
The purpose of this course is to explore what it means to conduct policy research through an exploration of different research paradigms with an eye towards determining what approach best suits your own values, research interests and objective. Over the course of the quarter we will discuss ontology, epistemology, methodology, axiology, rhetoric and other aspects of a research program in the context of various research paradigms.
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893 Individual Studies 01 - 6 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time |
|---|---|---|
17828, Boardman |
TBA- | TBA- |
Advanced individual studies in public policy and management. This course is graded S/U. All students must complete an Independent Study Form and submit it to 110 Page Hall.
999 Research in Public Administration: Dissertation 01 - 15 credits
| Class Number | Days | Time |
|---|---|---|
17860, Boardman |
TBA- | TBA- |
Research for dissertation purposes only. Repeatable to a maximum of 45 credit hours. This course is graded S/U.
