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PUAD 5110 - Seminar in Nonprofit Management
This course provides an overview of the principles and concepts that are unique to nonprofit management. Topics include executive management, funding diversity, human resource management, marketing, volunteer management and ethics. Students are also given an introduction to the history and the importance of the nonprofit sector. Cross-listed with PUAD 7110. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5115 - Effective Grant Writing for Nonprofit and Public Sector Managers
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to perform one of the most critical functions for any public or nonprofit sector agency today: gaining funds through proposals. Students learn how to locate and analyze funding opportunities through public and private funders and how to research, plan and write effective and competitive proposals. The course provides theoretical and practical knowledge about persuasive writing, the proposal submission and review process, building effective relationships with funders and how to proceed after post-funding decisions (positive or negative). Cross-listed with PUAD 7115. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5120 - Nonprofits and Public Policy
Examines the intersection of public policy and the nonprofit world and the ways in which each affects the other. The course examines current policy issues that relate to the nonprofit sector such as conversion of nonprofit to for-profit status, regulation of the nonprofit sector, issues of financial management, the role of nonprofits in devolution and privatization of government services, tax exemptions, “charitable choice,” donor control, governance and the future of the future of the sector. The course examines the ways nonprofits have affected the policy process and public policies by exploring the factors that shape social movements, nonprofit advocacy, strategies of influence, and the role of nonprofits in social movements such as Civil Rights and the environment. Cross-listed with PUAD 7120. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5125 - Civil Society and Nongovernmental Organizations
This course is designed for students interested in the international nonprofit sector. The course compares non-Western forms of civil society with the American tradition of civil society. Students will learn about the efforts of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) working in Third World countries to influence democracy, free association, and/or increased political and societal pluralism. Additionally, the course will focus on NGO management and governance issues in countries where there are strict controls and limits on the activities of NGOs. Cross-listed with PUAD 7125. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5130 - Collaboration Across Sectors
The blurring of the three economic sectors - government, business and nonprofits– continues to increase as more partnerships are developed across sectors. This course focuses on collaboration and partnerships involving public, nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Additionally, students are expected to gain an understanding of the issues and policies associated with the bidding, contracting, program delivery and reporting processes when nonprofit organizations are contracted to achieve public sector goals and/or private sector objectives. Cross-listed with PUAD 7130. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5140 - Nonprofit Financial Management
Financial management is one of the core competencies of effective nonprofit managers. Every nonprofit organization needs money to sustain or advance its mission. This course provides a grounding in financial management for the “non-accountant” by focusing on an array of knowledge and management skill areas necessary for allocating and controlling resources and for analyzing, reporting and protecting the fiscal health of the organization. Topics include key accounting principles, understanding and using financial statements, the budget development process, cash flow analysis, banking relationships, using the audit report, maximizing investment policy and strategy, and understanding the boundaries of tax exemption. Cross-listed with PUAD 7140. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5150 - Fundraising & Financial Resource Development
Designed to provide a comprehensive overview of funding sources available to nonprofit organizations (e.g., foundation and governmental grants, individual and corporate donations, entrepreneurial sources of revenue and events.), as well as detailed information on how to secure support of the various sources presented. Additionally, students are expected to gain both theoretical and practical knowledge relevant to why it is important to diversify an organization’s revenue streams. Cross-listed with PUAD 7150. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5160 - Nonprofit Boards and Executive Leadership
The important roles and responsibilities of a voluntary board of directors and the process of governing are often misunderstood. This course explores the special powers of a nonprofit board of directors as framed by and responsive to public policy. From the perspective of organizational behavior and theory, the course examines the leadership role and interplay between board members and the executive director. The examination includes a comparative analysis of different governing models, and explores fundamental questions of board composition, the role of advisor boards, achieving effective board meetings, the realm of liability, using committees, and the board’s role in fundraising, among other special subject matter. Cross-listed with PUAD 7160. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5170 - Strategic Management for Nonprofit and Public Managers
Designed to train public and nonprofit managers in the effective use of strategic management tools and techniques traditionally used by corporations. Strategic management tools and skills, although traditionally used by business, should not be seen as the exclusive domain of corporations. The course teaches students how to adapt traditional strategic management capabilities to the particular conditions of public and nonprofit organizations. Cross-listed with PUAD 7170. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5180 - Social Entrepreneurship
Designed to introduce students to the concept of social entrepreneurship. Using nonprofit (and public) organizational examples, students gain an understanding of what it means to be an innovative manager. Students study techniques designed to advance an organization’s mission and increase organizational effectiveness, accountability and efficiency through the use of for-profit techniques within a nonprofit context. Cross-listed with PUAD 7180. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5220 - Human Resource Management
Covers human resource functions in public and nonprofit agencies. Topics include job analysis, compensation, recruiting, selection, rewarding, training and development. Contemporary issues concerning civil service reforms are also presented. Prereq: PUAD 5002 or PUAD 7002. Cross-listed with PUAD 7220. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5250 - Intergovernmental Management
Surveys the basic literature of intergovernmental management and examines the interactive role of managers at federal, state, and local levels of government. Emphasis is placed on current intergovernmental issues. Cross-listed with PUAD 7250. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5260 - Managing Diversity
Using a systems approach, diversity within organizations is examined through the construction and review of theories in private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Existing models of managing diversity are examined and analyzed. Cross-listed with PUAD 7260. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5271 - Managing Conflict and Change
Explores the process of change in organizations, communities, society, and conflicts that arise. Through the use of relevant case studies and role playing exercises, students are provided a practical framework for looking at change and managing conflict associated with change. Cross-listed with PUAD 7271. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5280 - American Public Service Environment
Designed for SPA international students, especially those in their first or second semester, students will compare US culture and its public and nonprofit organizations (NGOs) with those in their home countries. Class sessions include: site visits; guest speakers from public and non-profit organizations; case studies, with an emphasis on applying theory to current issues in public policy and management. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5310 - Policy Formulation & Implementation
Building on PUAD 5005, students learn how policy is developed and implemented in several levels of government - local, state, federal - and within organizations themselves. The course makes use of the case studies to explore the intricacies of developing and implementing policy and the political, economic, and institutional contexts that affect these two states of policy development. Students also consider the different criteria that can be used to judge the effectiveness of programs and policies. Prereq: PUAD 5005 or 7005. Cross-listed with PUAD 7310. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5320 - Public Policy Analysis
Provides training in the systematic analysis of policy and program initiatives using an economics orientation and employing a case method. The course covers benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, present values, and the treatment of multiple criteria in public sector program analysis. Prereq: PUAD 5003/7003, 5004/7004 and 5005/7005. Cross-listed with PUAD 7320. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5330 - Intermediate Statistical Analysis
Follows PUAD 5003/7003 and is focused on more advanced statistical techniques to be used in research. These techniques include the use of regression in time series analysis; binary response; nonlinear, logistic, and profit models; and factor and path analysis. Evaluating potential problems with model specification and the remedies are included. Students are required to test hypotheses using these models with a data set. Prereq: PUAD 5003 or 7003. Cross-listed with PUAD 7330. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5350 - Program Evaluation
Describes the theory and methodology for the design of social research and demonstration projects and the application of analytic and statistical methods for evaluating public programs. Focus is on the application of evaluation methods and techniques of data interpretation. Report preparation is emphasized. Prereq: PUAD 5003 or PUAD 7003 and PUAD 5005 or PUAD 7005. Cross-listed with PUAD 7350. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5361 - Capstone Seminar
Synthesizes competencies gained throughout the course of study into a client-based research project. Students conduct independent research, complete a final written project demonstrating their qualifications and expertise, and orally present findings to a committee of faculty and public administration professionals. Cross-listed with PUAD 7361. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5370 - Media and Public Policy
Explores the conventions and practices of the print and electronic media in the United States. The course enables students to better understand the place of the media in society, the way the media look at themselves and how journalists confront conflicting values in the performance of their roles. Cross-listed with PUAD 7370. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5380 - Citizen Participation: Theory and Practice
Tackles the issues of citizen participation and community involvement in theory and practice. Students work in class on understanding the theoretical foundations that are relevant to citizen participation. Students engage in significant out-of-class projects to ground them in the practice of public involvement. Cross-listed with PUAD 7380. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5410 - Administrative Law
Examines legal aspects of policy implementation particularly the relationship between courts and administrative agencies. Covers standards of judicial review and agency action; administrative procedure and due process; selected special topics such as rights, liabilities, and immunities of public employees; and administrative discretion and scientific uncertainty. Cross-listed with PUAD 7410. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5420 - Law and Public Policy
Examines the relationship between courts and legislative assemblies. Explores how legislators use the policy process to shape and influence the exercise of judicial authority, and how the courts affect the policy process in reviewing the constitutionality of state and federal legislation. Cross-listed with PUAD 7420. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5430 - Seminar in Legal Research Methods and Public Law Scholarship
Provides law library-based training in locating and analyzing primary and secondary sources of law. Individualized guidance in understanding and using the content of legal materials in the conduct of public law scholarship and law-based writing. When taken as PUAD 7430 satisfies the PhD qualitative research methods requirement. Cross-listed with PUAD 7430. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5440 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Focuses on concepts and skills necessary to negotiate policy and management decisions and manage internal and external conflicts. Designed to help students understand the dynamics that affect negotiations and to apply the principles and strategies of negotiation in a variety of decision making and dispute resolution contexts. Cross-listed with PUAD 7440. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5450 - Law of All-Hazards Management
This course conveys knowledge of the statutes, regulations and court decisions governing the management of hazards by governmental agencies. It covers local, state and federal agencies as they mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from naturally, accidentally and intentionally caused disasters. Cross-listed with PUAD 7450. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5460 - Political Advocacy
Addresses advocacy & lobbying issues of public policy & govt problems. Special attention is given to how advocacy process works in the public sector & policy making bodies & how lobbying techniques & processes can be understood. General focus on practical applications at all levels of govt with primary attention to state & local govt. Cross-listed with PUAD 7460. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5501 - Contemporary Issues in Revenue and Tax Administration and Policy
This course provides a contemporary evaluation of Colorado’s tax structure, revenue system, and the state budget. The interaction of politics, the initiative process, the State Constitution, and stakeholders is studied. Cross-listed with PUAD 7501. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5502 - Public Financial Management and Policy
Provides basic understanding of issues & tools relevant to financial mgmt of public & non-profit org, including managerial acct (managing resources & obligations, investing idle funds, reporting, financial statement analysis, overview of budgeting, revenue forecasting, & costing) & debt management. Cross-listed with PUAD 7502. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5503 - Governmental Budgeting
Focuses on theory and practices of government budgeting, including cycles, formats, political considerations, costing and analytical tasks. Covers both operating and capital budgeting, plus fiscal management issues. Cross-listed with PUAD 7503. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5540 - Organization Development
Studies the dynamics involved in managing and facilitating change in organizations by application of behavioral science knowledge. Emphasis is placed on both cognitive and experiential learning. A background in organization theory and administrative behavior is required. Cross-listed with PUAD 7540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5615 - Health Policy
Draws upon existing policy models and evaluates the status of health policy formulation and implementation. Health policy topics include Medicaid and Medicare, managed care, health care reform proposals, telemedicine, the non-profit and for-profit role in health. Cross-listed with PUAD 7615. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5625 - Local Government Management
Relates the systems, processes, and principles of public management to the local government environment. Public management concepts such as strategic planning, bureaucracy, formal and informal organizational structures, human resource planning, management control, systems theory, and administrative behavior are explored within the context of local government. Cross-listed with PUAD 7625. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5626 - Local Government Politics and Policy
Examines local government from the perspective of politics and public policy making. The course focuses on local government political structures, policy analysis and formulation, political forces in administrative decision making, and the relationships between professional administrators and elected officials. Cross-listed with PUAD 7626. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5628 - Urban Social Problems
Examines local government from the perspective of sociology and group dynamics. Course could include some or all of the following subjects: neighborhoods and community groups, class and race relations, community crime, social service issues, immigration, the underclass in American society, and related urban social problems. Cross-listed with PUAD 7628 and URPL 6449. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5631 - Seminar in Environmental Politics and Policy
Examines the fundamental principles of politics and policy that shape strategies of environmental protection. Focuses on the role of institutional processes, government organizations and nongovernmental organizations in environmental politics and policy. Cross-listed with PUAD 7631. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5632 - Seminar in Environmental Management
Examines the practical challenges facing environmental managers today, using a series of case studies. Focuses on the role of institutional processes, government organizations and nongovernmental organizations in the practice of environmental management. Cross-listed with PUAD 7632. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5633 - Seminar in Natural Resource and Environmental Health Law
Studies administrative law aspects of environmental policy implementation & enforcement, role of courts in stimulating & limiting statutory reform, & regulatory innovation. Focuses on legal aspects of natural resource allocation & mgmt, & environmental protection. Alternatives to traditional processes for environmental dispute resolution. Cross-listed with PUAD 7633. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5634 - Theories of Sustainable Infrastructure Management
This seminar introduces theories of sustainable infrastructure management from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students then apply them to resolution of a variety of actual infrastructure management problems. Cross-listed with PUAD 7634. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5650 - Public Policies for Homeland Security and Disasters
Examines public policymaking and administration related to homeland security and disasters in the United States, including the interplay between security and traditional hazards management concerns. Assesses the role of institutional processes, governmental and nongovernmental organizations in policy development and implementation. Cross-listed with PUAD 7650. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5655 - Principles of Emergency Management
This course is an introduction to the practice of emergency management. It provides instruction on the discipline of emergency management and covers not only administrative practice, but how public policy shapes how governments at all levels address hazards, emergencies and disasters. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5710 - Public Sector Technology
This course addresses the impact and current use of technology in the modern government and nonprofit sector environments, including implications for interacting with citizens and organizational stakeholders, organizational decision-making and communication, and core functions such as budgeting and human resources. Cross-listed with PUAD 7710. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5910 - Nature and Scope of Interpersonal Violence
This course will analyze the social, historical, political, legal, and psychological aspects of gender based violence. Topics addressed include: definitions of the problem, demographics, children and youth exposed, national and global perspectives. Strategies for prevention, intervention, treatment, and social change are explored. Cross-listed with PUAD 7910, CRJU 5910 and 7910. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5920 - The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence
This class addresses the contributions and limitations of current empirical and clinical psychological literatures about interpersonal violence (IPV). The primary focus of the course is on the effects of IPV on adult and child survivors, on their psychological needs, and on the contribution of psychological knowledge to practice in IPV. Cross-listed with PUAD 7920, CRJU 5920 and 7920. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5930 - Interpersonal Violence Law and Public Policy
This course provides insight into public policy and law affected by or affecting interpersonal violence, (welfare reform, child maltreatment, criminal and civil court responses). Students will understand the role of law enforcement agents and the practice of victim advocacy, and describe and engage in methods to change law and policy. Cross-listed with PUAD 5930, CRJU 5930 and 7930. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5940 - Interpersonal Violence Advocacy and Social Change
Students will gain an understanding of different models of social change and the various approaches to public address, including social movements and campaigns, that accomplish change. Strategies for engaging diverse individuals, systems and communities to address interpersonal violence will be examined at individual to societal levels. Cross-listed with PUAD 7940, CRJU 5940 and 7940. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5960 - Interpersonal Violence and Health Care
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for responding to the health care needs of patients experiencing interpersonal violence (IPV). Also explores how healthcare professionals can develop public & institutional discourses that transform healthcare policies & systems to address the health needs of IPV survivors. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 5961 - Interpersonal Violence, Health Advocacy and Systems Change
Explores how healthcare professionals can develop successful public & institutional discourses that transform healthcare policies & systems to address the health needs of patients experiencing interpersonal violence. Methods of advocacy, activism & organizational change that produce positive results including effective educ techniques. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 6600 - Special Topics: Public Administration
Studies special topics relevant to public administration, such as public/private sector partnerships, community participation, international development, conflict management, regionalism, managing economic options for Colorado, and nonprofit management and marketing. Each semester various topics are studied. Cross-listed with PUAD 7600. Max hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 4
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PUAD 6840 - Independent Study: PUAD
Affords students the opportunity to do independent, creative work. Prereq: Permission of instructor. Max hours: 9 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 6
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PUAD 6910 - Field Study in Public Administration
For students who have not had government experience. Studies and reports are made while students have full- or part-time administrative traineeships, internships, or similar positions in government agencies or government-related organizations. Prereq: Completion of the common core courses. It is recommended that at least three of the track courses also be completed. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 6950 - Master’s Thesis
Max hours: 6 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 6
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PUAD 7007 - Qualitative Research Methods
Focuses on qualitative research methods that incorporate field work techniques such as observation, interviews, and content analysis. The main objective is to discover practicalities and limitations of ethnographic methods with a comparative methodology perspective. Students are required to conduct a search project. Cross-listed with PUAD 5007. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7110 - Seminar in Nonprofit Management
This course provides an overview of the principles and concepts that are unique to nonprofit management. Topics include executive management, funding diversity, human resource management, marketing, volunteer management and ethics. Students are also given an introduction to the history and the importance of the nonprofit sector. Cross-listed with PUAD 5110. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7115 - Effective Grant Writing for Nonprofit and Public Sector Managers
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to perform one of the most critical functions for any public or nonprofit sector agency today: gaining funds through proposals. Students learn how to locate and analyze funding opportunities through public and private funders and how to research, plan and write effective and competitive proposals. The course provides theoretical and practical knowledge about persuasive writing, the proposal submission and review process, building effective relationships with funders and how to proceed after post-funding decisions (positive or negative). Cross-listed with PUAD 5115. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7120 - Nonprofits and Public Policy
Examines the intersection of public policy and the nonprofit world and the ways in which each affects the other. The course examines current policy issues that relate to the nonprofit sector such as conversion of nonprofit to for-profit status, regulation of the nonprofit sector, issues of financial management, the role of nonprofits in devolution and privatization of government services, tax exemptions, “charitable choice,” donor control, governance and the future of the sector. The course also examines the ways nonprofits have affected the policy process and public policies by exploring the factors that shape social movements, nonprofit advocacy, strategies of influence, and the role of nonprofits in social movements such as Civil Rights and the environment. Cross-listed with PUAD 5120. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7125 - Civil Society and Nongovernmental Organizations
This course is designed for students interested in the international nonprofit sector. The course compares non-Western forms of civil society with the American tradition of civil society. Students will learn about the efforts of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) working in Third World countries to influence democracy, free association, and/or increased political and societal pluralism. Additionally, the course will focus on NGO management and governance issues in countries where there are strict controls and limits on the activities of NGOs. Cross-listed with PUAD 5125. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7130 - Collaboration Across Sectors
The blurring of the three economic sectors - government, business and nonprofits– continues to increase as more partnerships are developed across sectors. This course focuses on collaboration and partnerships involving public, nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Additionally, students are expected to gain an understanding of the issues and policies associated with the bidding, contracting, program delivery and reporting processes when nonprofit organizations are contracted to achieve public sector goals and/or private sector objectives. Cross-listed with PUAD 5130. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7140 - Nonprofit Financial Management
Financial management is one of the core competencies of effective nonprofit managers. Every nonprofit organization needs money to sustain or advance its mission. This course provides a grounding in financial management for the “non-accountant” by focusing on an array of knowledge and management skill areas necessary for allocating and controlling resources and for analyzing, reporting and protecting the fiscal health of the organization. Topics include key accounting principles, understanding and using financial statements, the budget development process, cash flow analysis, banking relationships, using the audit report, maximizing investment policy and strategy, and understanding the boundaries of tax exemption. Cross-listed with PUAD 5140. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7150 - Fundraising & Financial Resource Development
Designed to provide a comprehensive overview of funding sources available to nonprofit organizations (e.g., foundation and governmental grants, individual and corporate donations, entrepreneurial sources of revenue and events.), as well as detailed information on how to secure support of the various sources presented. Additionally, students are expected to gain both theoretical and practical knowledge relevant to why it is important to diversify an organization’s revenue streams. Cross-listed with PUAD 5150. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7160 - Nonprofit Boards and Executive Leadership
The important roles and responsibilities of a voluntary board of directors and the process of governing are often misunderstood. This course explores the special powers of a nonprofit board of directors as framed by and responsive to public policy. From the perspective of organizational behavior and theory, the course examines the leadership role and interplay between board members and the executive director. The examination includes a comparative analysis of different governing models, and explores fundamental questions of board composition, the role of advisory boards, achieving effective board meetings, the realm of liability, using committees, and the board’s role in fundraising, among other special subject matter. Cross-listed with PUAD 5160. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7170 - Strategic Management for Nonprofit and Public Managers
Designed to train public and nonprofit managers in the effective use of strategic management tools and techniques traditionally used by corporations. Strategic management tools and skills, although traditionally used by business, should not be seen as the exclusive domain of corporations. The course teaches students how to adapt traditional strategic management capabilities to the particular conditions of public and nonprofit organizations. Cross-listed with PUAD 5170. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7180 - Social Entrepreneurship
Designed to introduce students to the concept of social entrepreneurship. Using nonprofit (and public) organizational examples, students gain an understanding of what it means to be an innovative manager. Students study techniques designed to advance an organization’s mission and increase organizational effectiveness, accountability and efficiency through the use of for-profit techniques within a nonprofit context. Cross-listed with PUAD 5180. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7220 - Managing People in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
The study and practice of human resource management to build effective organizations. This course reviews the process of staffing an organization, motivating and managing employees from the initial steps of describing a position and determining compensation to recruiting qualified and diverse applicants, screening and selecting good employees, hiring, training, motivating, developing and providing feedback to employees; and layoffs and promotions. Contemporary issues concerning managerial flexibility and merit pay will be reviewed. Prereq: PUAD 7002 or PUAD 5002. Cross-listed with PUAD 5220. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7250 - Intergovernmental Management
Surveys the basic literature of intergovernmental management and examines the interactive role of managers at federal, state, regional, and local levels of government. Emphasis is placed on current intergovernmental issues. Cross-listed with PUAD 5250. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7260 - Managing Diversity
Using a systems approach, diversity within organizations is examined through the construction and review of theories in private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Existing models of managing diversity are examined and analyzed. Cross-listed with PUAD 5260. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7271 - Managing Conflict and Change
Explores the process of change in organizations, communities, and society, and conflicts that arise. Through the use of relevant case studies and role playing exercises, students are provided a practical framework for looking at change and managing conflict associated with change. Cross-listed with PUAD 5271. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7310 - Policy Formulation & Implementation
Building on PUAD 5005, students learn how policy is developed and implemented in several levels of government - local, state, federal - and within organizations themselves. The course makes use of the case studies to explore the intricacies of developing and implementing policy and the political, economic, and institutional contexts that affect these two states of policy development. Students also consider the different criteria that can be used to judge the effectiveness of programs and policies. Prereq: PUAD 5005 or 7005. Cross-listed with PUAD 5310. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7320 - Public Policy Analysis
Provides training in the systematic analysis of policy and program initiatives using an economics orientation and employing a case method. The course covers benefit-cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, present values, and the treatment of multiple criteria in public sector program analysis. Prereq: PUAD 7003/5003, 7004/5004 and 7005/5005. Cross-listed with PUAD 5320. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7350 - Program Evaluation
Describes the theory and methodology for the design of social research and demonstration projects and the application of analytic and statistical methods for evaluating public programs. Focus is on the application of evaluation methods and techniques of data interpretation. Report preparation is emphasized. Prereq: PUAD 7003 or PUAD 5003 and PUAD 7005 or PUAD 5005. Cross-listed with PUAD 5350. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7361 - Advanced Seminar in Public Policy and Management
In this seminar, students demonstrate their mastery of the knowledge and skills acquired in core courses, through the conduct of a client-based project. Students in a concentration must undertake a project related to that concentration. Students also make a juried oral presentation of the professional paper which reports project findings. This is the cumulative opportunity for students to apply concepts, theories, and research skills gained in the program to professional practice. (Successful completion of this course is an M.P.A. degree program requirement.) Cross-listed with PUAD 5361. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7370 - Media and Public Policy
Explores the conventions and practices of the print and electronic media in the United States. The course enables students to better understand the place of the media in society, the way the media look at themselves and how journalists confront conflicting values in the performance of their roles. Cross-listed with PUAD 5370. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7380 - Citizen Participation: Theory and Practice
Tackles the issues of citizen participation and community involvement in theory and practice. Students work in class on understanding the theoretical foundations that are relevant to citizen participation. Students engage in significant out-of-class projects to ground them in the practice of public involvement. Cross-listed with PUAD 5380. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7410 - Administrative Law
Examines legal aspects of policy implementation particularly the relationship between courts and administrative agencies. Covers standards of judicial review and agency action; administrative procedure and due process; selected special topics such as rights, liabilities, and immunities of public employees; and administrative discretion and scientific uncertainty. Cross-listed with PUAD 5410. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7420 - Law and Public Policy
Examines the relationship between courts and legislative assemblies. Explores how legislators use the policy process to shape and influence the exercise of judicial authority, and how the courts affect the policy process in reviewing the constitutionality of state and federal legislation. Cross-listed with PUAD 5420. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7430 - Seminar in Legal Research Methods and Public Law Scholarship
Provides law library-based training in locating and analyzing primary and secondary sources of law. Individualized guidance in understanding and using the content of legal materials in the conduct of public law scholarship and law-based writing. When taken as PUAD 7430 satisfies the PhD qualitative research methods requirement. Cross-listed with PUAD 5430. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7440 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Focuses on concepts and skills necessary to negotiate policy and management decisions and manage internal and external conflicts. Designed to help students understand the dynamics that affect negotiations and to apply the principles and strategies of negotiation in a variety of decision making and dispute resolution contexts. Cross-listed with PUAD 5440. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7450 - Law of All-Hazards Management
This course conveys knowledge of the statutes, regulations and court decisions governing the management of hazards by governmental agencies. It covers local, state and federal agencies as they mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from naturally, accidentally and intentionally caused disasters. Cross-listed with PUAD 5450. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7460 - Political Advocacy
Addresses advocacy & lobbying issues of public policy & govt problems. Special attention is given to how advocacy process works in the public sector & policy making bodies & how lobbying techniques & processes can be understood. General focus on practical applications at all levels of govt with primary attention to state & local govt. Cross-listed with PUAD 5460. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7501 - Contemporary Issues in Revenue and Tax Administration and Policy
This course provides a contemporary evaluation of Colorado’s tax structure, revenue system, and the state budget. The interaction of politics, the initiative process, the State Constitution, and stakeholders is studied. Cross-listed with PUAD 5501. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7502 - Public Financial Management and Policy
Provides basic understanding of issues & tools relevant to financial mgmt. of public & non-profit org, including managerial acct (managing resources & obligations, investing idle funds, reporting, financial statement analysis, overview of budgeting, revenue forecasting, & costing) & debt management. Cross-listed with PUAD 7502. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7503 - Governmental Budgeting
Focuses on theory and practices of government budgeting, including cycles, formats, political considerations, costing and analytical tasks. Covers both operating and capital budgeting, plus fiscal management issues. Cross-listed with PUAD 5503. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7540 - Organization Development
Studies the dynamics involved in managing and facilitating change in organizations by application of behavioral science knowledge. Emphasis is placed on both cognitive and experiential learning. A background in organization theory and administrative behavior is required. Cross-listed with PUAD 5540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7600 - Special Topics: Public Administration
Studies special topics relevant to public administration, such as public/private sector partnerships, community participation, international development, conflict management, regionalism, managing economic options for Colorado, and nonprofit management and marketing. Each semester various topics are studied. Cross-listed with PUAD 6600. Max hours: 15 Credits. Semester Hours: 1 to 4
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PUAD 7615 - Health Policy
Draws upon existing policy models and evaluates the status of health policy formulation and implementation. Health policy topics include Medicaid and Medicare, managed care, health care reform, proposals, telemedicine, and the non-profit and for-profit role in health. Cross-listed with PUAD 5615. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7625 - Local Government Management
Relates the systems, processes, and principles of public management to the local government environment. Public management concepts such as strategic planning, bureaucracy, formal and informal organizational structures, human resource planning, management control, systems theory, and administrative behavior are explored within the context of local government. Cross-listed with PUAD 5625. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7626 - Local Government Politics and Policy
Examines local government from the perspective of politics and public policy making. The course focuses on local government political structures, policy analysis and formulation, political forces in administrative decision making, and the relationships between professional administrators and elected officials. Cross-listed with PUAD 5626. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7628 - Urban Social Problems
Examines local government from the perspective of sociology and group dynamics. Course could include some or all of the following subjects: neighborhoods and community groups, class and race relations, community crime, social service issues, immigration, the underclass in American society, and related urban social problems. Cross-listed with PUAD 5628 and URPL 6449. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7631 - Seminar in Environmental Politics and Policy
Examines the fundamental principles of politics and policy that shape strategies of environmental protection. Focuses on the role of institutional processes, government organizations and nongovernmental organizations in environmental politics and policy. Cross-listed with PUAD 5631. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7632 - Seminar in Environmental Management
Examines the practical challenges facing environmental managers today, using a series of case studies. Focuses on the role of institutional processes, government organizations and nongovernmental organizations in the practice of environmental management. Cross-listed with PUAD 5632. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7633 - Seminar in Natural Resource and Environmental Health Law
Studies administrative law aspects of environmental policy implementation & enforcement, role of courts in stimulating & limiting statutory reform, & regulatory innovation. Focuses on legal aspects of natural resource allocation & mgmt, & environmental protection. Alternatives to traditional processes for environmental dispute resolution. Cross-listed with PUAD 5633. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7634 - Theories of Sustainable Infrastructure Management
This seminar introduces theories of sustainable infrastructure management from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Students then apply them to resolution of a variety of actual infrastructure management problems. Cross-listed with PUAD 5634. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7650 - Disaster and Emergency Management Policies
Examines policies for the management of hazards, emergencies and disasters. Focuses on a series of case studies concerning major disasters and on management principles drawn from those cases. Examines the role of institutional processes, government organizations and nongovernmental organizations in emergency management. Cross-listed with PUAD 5650. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7655 - Principles of Emergency Management
This course is an introduction to the practice of emergency management. It provides instruction on the discipline of emergency management and covers not only administrative practice, but how public policy shapes how governments at all levels address hazards, emergencies and disasters. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7710 - Public Sector Technology
This course addresses the impact and current use of technology in the modern government and nonprofit sector environments, including implications for interacting with citizens and organizational stakeholders, organizational decision-making and communication, and core functions such as budgeting and human resources. Cross-listed with PUAD 5710. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7910 - Women and Violence: A Sociological Perspective
This course is a sociological, feminist analysis of violence against women and girls that addresses the intersection of sexism and other forms of oppression such as racism, classism and heterosexism, within historical, cultural, social and institutional contexts. Topics covered focus on overt and covert forms of sexual coercion, harassment and assault, battering and stalking. Cross-listed with PUAD 5910, CRJU 5910 and 7910. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7920 - Psychology of Violence Against Women
This class addresses the contributions and the limitations of current empirical and clinical psychological literatures about domestic violence. Topics covered include: distinguishing among mental health professionals regarding work with DV clients; the psychological impacts of domestic violence; services useful for responding to the needs of women and children; and an introduction to the psychology and treatment of batterers. Cross-listed with PUAD 5920, CRJU 5920 and 7920. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7930 - Battered Women and the Legal System
This course provides a practical understanding of how the following relate to battered women and their children: (a) major developments in federal, state, tribal, administrative, statutory and case law; (b) the role and responses of law enforcement, judges, attorneys, victim assistance providers and other legal system agents; and (c) the role and process of victim advocacy. Cross-listed with PUAD 5930, CRJU 5930 and 7930. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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PUAD 7940 - Domestic Violence Social Change and Advocacy
Info on theories & strategies behind contemp social change movements & skills necessary to organize & implement actions to influence public awareness & policy. Values of US society are complex & require advocates/activists to develop a heightened sense of self, community, & ethical framework while confronting sexism, racism & oppressions. Cross-listed with PUAD 5940, CRJU 5940 and 7940. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3
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