MPA: Community Development Concentration

Program Requirements

Core

PA 605	Epistemology and Research Methodology	3
PA 606	Grant Writing and Strategic Planning	3
PA 610	Public and Administrative Law	3
PA 620	Bureaucracy and Public Management	3
PA 625	Public Budgeting and Finance	3
PA 630	Politics of Public Policy	3
PA 640	Theoretical Foundations of Public Administration	3
PA 641	Ethics in Public Administration	3
PA 690	Public Administration Internship	1
Total Credit Hours:		25

Community Development

PA 635	Organizational Theory	3
SOC 630	Social Inequality	3
Total Credit Hours:		6

Choose two (2) of the following:

CIS 650	Innovation, Technology and Organizational Change	3
PA 611	Jurisprudence	3
PA 645	Seminar in Founding Fathers and American Thought	3
PA 655	Community Development	3
PA 656	Nonprofit Organizations	3
PA 660	Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations	3
RAPP 610	Ideology and Policy Development in Appalachia	3
RAPP 611	Spatial Analysis	3
RAPP 630	Graduate Seminar in Regional Issues	3
RAPP 637	Environmental Policy and Management	3
RAPP 670	Directed Research	3
RAPP 685	Advanced Environmental Education	3
SOC 620	Sociology of Education	3
SOC 659	Social Change in Appalachia	3
MNGT 612	Organizational Theory	3
GOVT 600	Seminar: State and Local Government	3
GOVT 605	Environmental Law and Policy	3
GOVT 612	American Political Development	3
PS 600	Political Science Seminar	3
Total Credit Hours:		6

Total Credit Hours: 37