Core Courses

Exploration of public organization theory and behavior in the context of issues confronting upper echelon public administrators on local, state and federal levels.

Issues and techniques of financial management and budgeting in the public and nonprofit sectors.

This is a course in applied ethics and not a course in philosophy or religion. Using short lectures and interactive discussions the course allows Criminal Justice students to view the systems and issues within in it from the basic philosophical positions of teleology, deontology and virtues ethics. Using those frameworks, it allows the students to view ethical issues from the basic ethical standing points.