Graduate Certificates
Public Management
The Graduate Certificate in Public Management encompasses administrative skills for ethical, effective leadership and management roles in the public service. Students completing this Graduate Certificate will be well positioned to begin or advance a public service career with many expecting to pursue management careers in state and local governments.
The Graduate Certificate in Public Management offers many benefits. Public management skills are essential for successful managerial careers in the public service. Our increasingly complex society and economy have created a need on the part of public employees for mastery of knowledge and skills on a higher level than ever before. Finally, one can find many avenues to make a difference within today’s public service.
The following courses are required:
- PA 8510 Public Budgeting and Taxation
- Intensive study of the institutions, processes, politics, and social and economic impact of public taxation and expenditures.
- PA 8520 Human Resource Management and Development in the Public and Nonprofit Sector
- Examines the political, economic, and legal context of the personnel function, as well as the technical aspects of the personnel administrator’s job. Stresses the dynamics of bureaucratic organizations.
- PA 8530 Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement
- Presents the rationale for strategic planning and techniques and processes to develop and implement strategic planning in the public sector.
- PA 8540 Local Government Management
- Organization and division of service responsibility within local governments. Problems of managing delivery of services with special emphasis upon program implementation, productivity, planning, and responsiveness.
Along with ONE of the following:
The fourth course is an elective chosen in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies from among the courses offered by the Truman School or by another graduate unit at MU.