PAD 5631 - Executive Local Governance II

3 Credits (Minimum) 3 Credits (Maximum)

A course emphasizing student competence and creative work on a timely, substantive issue. Students will engage with public sector practitioners and faculty in community-based case studies that focus on local government policy making. Students will demonstrate their ability to integrate multiple approaches to decision making and organizational management with an extended knowledge base of local government issues such as economic development or crisis management. Special case topics and projects will include but are not limited to economic development, fundamentals of emergency crisis, human service challenges, housing, and other local public service areas. Prer., Graduate students only, to include nondegree grads.