Take your Comparative Public Administration course online today!
Home / FAQs / Online Degrees / Certificate Courses / Admission Policies / Class Rooms / Request Info.
Canyon College

COURSE SYLLABUS: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Course Title: Department: Instructor: Prerequisites:

PA597 - Comparative Public Administration Business John Theodore, PhD, DBA, MA, BS - Contact - Vita Graduate standing and the successful completion of an undergraduate level program.

Course Description:

This course deals with the United States administrative structures, management philosophies, and administrative styles. Furthermore, it examines the separation of administration and politics as it exists in the United States today.

Learning Objectives:

In addition to receiving general knowledge in comparative public administration, the students will also learn:

1. How comparative politics work.
2. How the governance of contemporary societies function.
3. How administrative reforms, privatization, devolutions, and empowerment function and the impact they have upon modern societies.

Required Text: Online Bookstore

Politics and The Bureaucracy: Policymaking in the Fourth Branch of Government by Kenneth J. Meier. Wadsworth Publishing Co, 4th edition, 1999.
ISBN #: 0155055232

Supplementary Resources:

Supplementary resources are found in the text book. The students are encouraged to become familiar with at least twenty five of them.

Assessment:

1. Eight reading and homework assignments covering each chapter in the text.
2. One five-page essay mid-term examination.
3. One five- page essay final examination.
4. One seven-page project dealing with an issue of Comparative Public Administration.

Academic Requirements

1. All students are expected to "attend" the course by completing all course assignments in an academic manner and with complete preparation.
2. Grammar, punctuation, spelling and overall composition will be including in the grading of all assignments.
3. Students are required to complete each unit within a one-week time frame. At the students request, and successful completion of a unit in less than one week, the instructor will provide students with subsequent units of homework in advance.
4. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

Method of Instruction

PA597 is a distance learning course offered through Canyon College. Because this class is a partially self-paced program in that you may complete a specific weeks work at anytime during that week time-frame, it is essential that the student review all available materials located in the text, classroom, e-mail, and syllabus. Course examinations will be administered on-line during the fourth and eighth weeks of class. Prior to the submission of the first assignment each student is required to submit via e-mail to the instructor the following information:

• Name, e-mail address, course expectations, professional work experience, educational background and anything else you would like the instructor to know about you.

Course Schedule and Assignments

Week 1

• Unit 1: Chapter One. Submit a two pages analysis of Chapter One.

Week 2

• Unit 2: Chapter Two and Chapter three. Submit a two-page analysis of Chapters Two and Three.

Week 3

• Unit 3: Chapter Four. Submit a two-page analysis of Chapter Four.

Week 4

• Unit 4: No chapter assignment. Present your five-page mid-term examination pertinent to any part of the “ Bureaucratic Power and Its Causes.”

Week 5

• Unit 5: Chapter Five. Present a two-page analysis of Chapters Five.

Week 6

• Unit 6: Chapter Six. Present a two page analysis of Chapter Six.

Week 7

• Unit 7: Chapters Seven and Chapter Eight. Present a two-page analysis of Chapters Seven and Eight.

Week 8 - Final Exam

• Unit 8: Submit the seven-page essay final exam on any issue pertinent to “Controlling the Bureaucracy.”

Grading criteria:

Homework/Reading Assignments     Midterm Exam Final Exam Term Paper

40% 20% 20% 20%

* This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.