Public & Nonprofit Management Major Courses

Below is a representative lists of courses and electives.

    Seminar In Research Design & Methods
    Managing International Organizations
    Intermediate Quantitative Methods
    Advanced Quant : Casual Inference for Policy Analysis
    Managing Emergencies & Disasters
    Managing People in the Public & Nonprofit Sector
    Matching Money with Mission
    Rebuilding & Building US Public Infrastructure
    Regulation Health, Safety and Environmental Risks
    Environmental Economics: Managing Natural Resources
    Policy Design and Implementation
    Housing Policy: Revitalizing Metropolitan Regions
    Managing & Financing Urban Services
    Comparative Regional Governance
    City and Region Theory and Practice
    State and Metropolitan Politics and Policy
    Leadership
    Systems Thinking & Public Policy
    Financial Practices for Economic & Environmental Sustainability
    Public Sector Accounting
    Benefit Cost Analysis
    Information, Law and Security
    Advanced Seminar
    Incentives and Behavior in Organizations
    Policy Research and Analysis
    Natural Resources Governance and Management
    Health Reform in the US: Past, Present, & Future
    Management Nonprofit Organizations
    Comparative Public Administration
    Strategic Management
    American Public Policy
    Economic Development Strategies and Practices
    Seminar Political Institutions
    Ethics & Public Life
    International Public Management
    American Government and Politics
    Behavioral Economics and Game Theory
    Grant Writing & Fundraising
    Nonprofit Capacity Building
    Experiments in Public Policy and Development
    Spatial Planning in Contested Places
    Energy Production and the Local Economy
    Managing Diversity for organizational and regional excellence
    Race, Gender, Law and Policy
    Systems Theory
    Advanced Seminar: Evidence & Inference in Political Science & Public Policy
    Advanced Methods of Policy Research Analysis
    Current Controversies in United States Energy Policy
    Policies for Keeping People Healthy and Safe
    Public Interest Technologies and Civic Data
    Approaches to Conflict Resolution
    International Organizations
    Introduction to Cyber Crimes
    Topics in International Affairs - Latin American Social & Public Policy
    International Economic Organizations
    American Legislative Process
    State Building
    The War on Drugs
    Humanitarian Intervention
    Globalization & Welfare
    Political Islam
    Policy Applications of Game Theory
    Latin America Social and Public Policy
    Data Analysis Visualization
    Social Entrepreneurship
    Development Policy & Adminstration
    Global Environmental Policy
    NGOs Advocacy in International Politics
    Project Management
    Global Energy Policy
    Financing NGOs for Development
    Micropolitics: NGOs Development and Civil Society
    Accounting for NGOs
    Governance, Local Government and Civil Society
    Managing Organizations in Development
    Global Health Policy and Development
    Technical Assistance and Program Design
    Economics of Education
    Lobbying and Advocacy (DC semester)
    Law-Making Seminar (DC semester)
    Neighborhood and Community Development
    Budgeting 1.5 credit
    Contracting
    Non Profit Advocacy
    GIS for Public Policy
    Comparative Local Development Policy and Planning
    Strategic Communications
    Comparative Cultural Regeneration in Pgh, Newcastle and Lyon
    Applied GIS in the Local Government
    Community Development & Focus Groups
    Log Frame and Development Planning
    Intermediate Quantitative Methods
    Seminar in Organization Theory
    Seminar in Research Design and Methods
    Field Seminar in Public Administration
    Environmental Economics: Managing Natural Resources
    Systems Theory
    International Public Management
    Advanced Seminar: Evidence and Inference in Political Science & Public Policy
    PHD Integrative Seminar
    Policy Design and Implementation
    Comparative Public Administration
    Capstone