A
candidate is expected to attain a minimum grade average of "C" with
no "D" in the major.
Course
Descriptions
201
Public Admin. - Introduction to Public Administration I
Pre-requisite.-
Sophomore Standing
In
this course emphasis is upon the relationship among the three branches of government,
the rise of big government, the elements, functions, and processes of public administration,
the principles and methods of administration, simple decision-making models, financial
and personnel administration, organization theories and leadership concepts.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
202
Public Admin. - Introduction to Public Administration II
Pre-requisite:
PADM 201
This
course concentrates on the evolution of public administration as an academic discipline,
representative schools ,of thought, decision-making models, Organizational Charts,
and Hierarchies, Civil Servants and Collective Bargaining, Spoils and Merit Systems.
New Trends in Public Administration.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
304
Public Admin. - Development Administration
Pre-requisite: PADM 202
A
study of the nature, objectives and functions of development administration in
the Third World with special reference to Liberia. The course includes the rising
role of socio-economic planning, implementation and coordination of comprehensive,
interregional, and sectoral development programs.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
305
Public Admin. - Public Health Administration
Pre-requisite: PADM 202
This
is a study of the organization structure and functions of the public health, medical
and social welfare programs of Liberia, with special reference to personnel procedures,
communication, logistics, government financing, controls, and relationship with
allied national and international organizations.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
306
Public Admin. - Administrative Law
Pre-requisite: PADM 202
This
study of public administrative practices in its legal environment examines the
administrative process in terms of relationships between administrative actions
and the legal process; the advantages of administrative law; grievance, including
combudsman and appeal systems, theories of administrative rule-making and adjudicating
by civil servants, or regulatory agencies; and relevant constitutional doctrines.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
307
Public Admin. - Administrative Practice and Theory
Pre-requisite: PADM
202
The
nature of public executive/administrative leadership in government. Including
its basic constitutional and legal powers and constraints, its traits, functions,
and styles used in the exercise of its social power, problems, and situational
forces.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
308
Public Admin. - Public Organization Structure and Behavior
Pre-requisite:
PADM 202
Analyses
and classification of public organization typologies, including their objectives,
structures, functions, problems, theories, group dynamics, change and adaptation,
and the influence of culture in organizations.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
309
Public Admin. - Education Administration
Pre-requisite: PADM 202
A
study of the Liberian system of education, its organization. Objectives, financing,
personnel system, standards, government controls (certification, supervision,
and inspection}, relationship with allied national and international organizations.
Reference will also be made to other systems of educational administration.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
311
Public Admin. -Government Budgetary Process
Pre-requisite: PADM 202
A
course principally on the Liberian Government Budget as an important instrument
of economic and social policy and a tool for efficient management and coordination,
with emphasis on the four basic phases of the budgetary process; Executive, and
Post-Audit, and on the functions of the budget to: check inflation, reverse trade
recessions, improve the balance of payments when adverse and redistribute incomes.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
315
Public Admin- - Public Policy Process
Pre-requisites: PADM 202 and MATH
108
The
course studies the distinction between the concepts of Policy and Decision, and
the application of rational - and non-rational comprehensive decision-making models,
with special reference to Input-Output Analysis, Bayesian. Iterative Analytic
Cycle, Statist icing, Muddling Through, Mixed Scanning, Elite - Mass, and Group
Varieties.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
401
Public Admin. - Comparative Public Administration I
Pre-requisites: PADM
304 and PADM 308
Course
comprises a survey of the history of administrative thought, development administration,
general theories of bureaucratic organizations, a study of the similarities and
differences in the orientations, administrative structures, and patterns of behavior
of a selected number of states, their governments and political leadership styles,
functions and problems.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
402
Public Admin. - Rural Development Administration
Pre-requisite: PADM 304
A
study of the Liberian Government and socio-economic development policy objectives
and programs as they relate to the rural areas. Emphasis is placed on Government's
overall national development policy, in particular its current local government
reorganization and decentralization policy, the formulation and implementation
of its Rural Integrated Development Programs and general impact on traditional
lifestyles.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
403
Public Admin. - Public Personnel Administration
Pre-requisites: PADM 306
and PADM 307
A
study of general public personnel organization and administration, with special
reference to the Liberian Civil Service Agency and its functions of Recruitment,
Examination, Selection, Position Classification. Pay Plan. Discipline, Grievance
System, Retirement, and coordinating agency personnel procedures.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
405
Public Admin. - Public Finance Administration
Pre-requisites: PADM 306
and PADM 311
Study
of the organization, allocation, and administration of public finance with special
reference to fiscal and monetary policies, the national tax structure, the organizational
structure and functions of the Ministry of Finance; the Liberian banking system,
the kinds of taxes, the public debt component and its management, and the budgetary
process.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
406
Public Admin. - Public Administration and Public Enterprises
Pre-requisite:
PADM 405
A
Study of the government as a producer of goods and services through public corporations
with special reference to Liberia, and emphasis on the organization, obiectives,
scope and methods.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
407
Public Admin. - Government Planning
Pre-requisites: PADM 304 and PADM
405
A
study of development planning concepts, types of socio-economic development plans,
objectives of planning, development strategies, procedures and problems, with
emphasis on Liberia.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
408
Public Admin. - Local Government Administration
Co-requisite: PADM 402
Study
of the structure of local government, its personnel system, functions and central
government control through the Ministry of Local Government, .Rural Development,
and Urban Reconstruction.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
410
Public Admin. - Comparative Public Administration II
Pre-requisite: PADM
401
In
this course a comparison is made between the administrative systems of Developing
and Western Nations, the impact of culture and selected problems of public administration.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
412
Public Admin.-Senior Seminar
Pre-requisite: PADM 307 and Senior Standing
Identification,
discussion and analysis of major administrative problems in such areas of the
discipline as The Policy Process, Reorganization of Bureaucracy, The Public Debt
and Socio-Economic Development, Crime and Public Personnel Procedures.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
499
Public Admin. - Directed Readings
Pre-requisite: as designated by the Chairman
and approved by the Dean.
Study
in lieu of or in addition to required courses in the public administration program
for qualified students with individual interests or curriculum problems.
Credit:
3 credits/semester
