College of Public Service Master of Public Administration Graduate Program Welcome! Welcome to the College of Business and to the Master of Public Administration! This document is for new Public Administration graduate students and will help you with registration for your first trimester at the University of New Haven. Please read it carefully and if you have any questions please contact the program advisor whose contact information is provided below. A total of 42 graduate credits are required for completion of the Master of Public Administration. The program consists of nine required courses (27 credits) plus five courses (15 credits) that may be taken as unrestricted electives or used to complete one of the five concentrations in the master s program. The following concentrations are available: City Management Community Clinical Services Health Care Management Long Term Health Care Concentration Personnel & Labor Relations Concentration You don t need to choose a concentration immediately. Please consult with Professor Cynthia Conrad when you are ready to decide. Program Advisor Cynthia Conrad GATH 105 cconrad@newhaven.edu 203 932 7486 Required Courses ECON 6601 Macroeconomics and Microeconomics PADM 6601 Principles of Public Administration PADM 6602 Public Policy Formulation and Implementation PADM 6604 Communities and Social Change PADM 6611 Research Methods in Public Administration
PADM 6620 Personnel Administration and Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector PADM 6625 Administrative Behavior PADM 6632 Public Finance and Budgeting PADM 6690 Research Seminar Electives or Concentrations (five courses) Concentration in City Management Students choosing the concentration in City Management take the required core curriculum of nine courses and the following courses: PADM 6630 Fiscal Management for Local Government PADM 6661 Problems of Metropolitan Areas PSCI 6616 Urban Government ECON 6665 Urban and Regional Economic Development PSYC 6610 Program Evaluation PADM 6670 6679 Selected Topics SOCI 6610 Urban Sociology Concentration in City Management Students choosing the Community Clinical Services concentration take the core curriculum of nine courses and the following courses: PSYC 6605 Survey of Community Psychology PSYC 6629 Introduction to Psychotherapy and Counseling PSYC 6632 Group Counseling Plus one additional elective Plus one of the following:
HCAD 6601 Management of Health Care Organizations MGMT 6663 Leadership and Team Building MGMT 6664 Organizational Effectiveness Concentration in Health Care Management Students choosing the Health Care Management concentration will take the core curriculum of nine courses and follow the 15 credit Health Care concentration in lieu of the five elective courses. HCAD 6601 Management of Health Care Organizations PSCI 6635 Law and Public Health HCAD 6602 Management Information Systems in Health Care HCAD 6600 Health Care Delivery Systems HCAD 6643 Health and Institutional Planning HCAD 6644 Administration of Programs and Services for the Aged HCAD 6645 Health Care Economics and Finance HCAD 6646 Organization and Management of Long Term Care Facilities HCAD 6647 Alternative Health Care Delivery Systems HCAD 6691 Contemporary Issues in Health Care HCAD 6605 Health Care Ethics HCAD 6623 Introduction to Managed Care HCAD 6627 Cost Containment in Health Care HCAD 6629 Health Care Reimbursements HCAD 6653 Human Resource Planning in Health Care HCAD 6621 Survey of Medical Group Management PADM 6670 6679 Selected Topics Concentration in Long Term Health Care In the following sequence, HCAD 6646 must be taken before or concurrently with HCAD 6681 or HCAD 6683; HCAD 6682 must be taken after HCAD 6681 and HCAD 6646. No waivers, substitutions, or transfer credits are permitted in this concentration. There are two options for the concentration in Long Term Care. Please contact the program coordinator prior to selecting an option as the State of Connecticut has different requirements for each.
Option I This option consists of 15 concentration credits and 42 total program credits. HCAD 6646 Organization and Management of Long Term Care Facilities HCAD 6681 Long Term Health Care Internship I HCAD 6682 Long Term Health Care Internship II One Health Care Elective Option II This option consists of 18 concentration credits and 45 total program credits. HCAD 6646 Organization and Management of Long Term Care Facilities HCAD 6683 Long Term Health Care Internship Two Health Care Electives One Restricted Elective Concentration in Personnel and Labor Relations Students choosing this concentration take the required core curriculum of nine courses and follow the 15 credit Personnel and Labor Relations concentration in lieu of the five elective courses. MGMT 6645 Management of Human Resources Or SH 602 Safety Organization and Administration Prerequisite for this group: ECON 6601 (Macroeconomics and Microeconomics) or permission of the M.P.A. coordinator. ECON 6625 Industrial Relations ECON 6627 Economics of Labor Relations ECON 6687 Collective Bargaining Prerequisite for this group: PADM 6625 Administrative Behavior of permissions of the M.P.A. coordinator.
COMM 6621 Managerial Communication MGMT 6664 Organizational Effectiveness PSYC 6620 Industrial Psychology PSYC 6628 The Interview PSYC 6632 Group Counseling PSYC 6640 Industrial Motivation and Morale PSYC 6642 Organizational Change and Development PSYC 6643 The Psychology of Conflict Management I PSYC 6646 The Psychology of Negotiation and Mediation If you have any questions, please contact your program coordinator: Dr. Cynthia Conrad Chair and Program Coordinator Department of Public Management Email: cconrad@newhaven.edu