Designed to help students think critically about social equity as the fourth pillar of public administration. Covering the origins of social equity as a concept in public administration. The course will also examine how social equity has been operationalized in practice, including how organizations create more equitable workplaces and communities and barriers to achieving social equity. Lastly, students will explore their roles and responsibilities to build a more just society as future public sector leaders.

This skills-based, half-semester course familiarizes professional program graduate students with insights into effective data communication, exposes them to a communication framework, and allows them to hone new skills through the completion of various assignments. Covered topics include developing clear messages, designing effective graphs and tables, formatting written documents, and creating multimedia presentations. While new tools and techniques feature in this course, the overarching goal is a timeless one: the sharing of ideas.

This course develops the skills, approaches, and philosophies in the functional areas of public budgeting and financial management. Students analyze case situations in public organizations, identify possible solutions in response to their analysis, and justify final recommendations.

This course examines mediation principles, and the role, ethics, and techniques of ombudsman in public sector. Models of mediation are compared, and students share in class their application and/or adaptation of mediation to their current or desired public sector duties.

NOTE: Students may take either PUBA 768 or 772.

This course covers theory and practice of dispute resolution and consensus building processes for public policy and program implementation. It focuses on workplace and service provision conflicts to develop mediation skills; is comprised of short lectures, demonstration, and student practice of a mediation model/specific skill sets.

NOTE: Students may take either PUBA 768 or 772.

This workshop-style course focuses on inter-organization and community settings to develop facilitation skills. It is comprised of short lectures, demonstration, and student practice of facilitation strategies.

This course provides public managers with the basic knowledge to successfully manage technology projects and government information. The use of information technology has become an indispensable part of the public sector. Governments now use technology to communicate with citizens, disseminate information, and engage in digital democracy.

This course looks at the diverse tools and strategies environmental service providers use to pay for their programs. It also examines the policy implications of deciding how to pay for these services.

This course introduces a process for systematically thinking about decisions and valuable techniques for analyzing decisions. Students learn how to construct models for decision making and how to use these models to analyze decisions.

How do concepts learned in the classroom translate into real-world practice? The Carolina MPA Immersion Experience offers both online and on-campus students the opportunity to make this connection and learn from MPA faculty with expertise in government and non-profit administration. Held at the UNC School of Government, the course allows students and faculty to come together for three days to focus on a relevant topic in the field of public administration.