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General Public Administration concentration



Students with a concentration in General Public Administration must complete twelve credits, chosen from the following courses:

    PUBA 301    Health Care Administration
    PUBA 302    Health Policy, Politics, and Law
    PUBA 303    Financial Concepts in Health Management
    PUBA 307    Community Health Analysis
    PUBA 312    Bureaucratic Politics
    PUBA 315    Survey Techniques for Administrators
    PUBA 330    Computer Skills for Administrators
    PUBA 352    Comparative Public Administration
    PUBA 355    Labor-Management Relations
    PUBA 367    Labor-Management Relations in the Public Service
    PUBA 406    Contemporary Problems of Justice Administration in America
    PUBA 411    Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
    PUBA 446    Contemporary Issues in Health Care
    PUBA 460    Environmental Policy Planning and Administration
    PUBA 461    Social Dimensions of Disaster Response
    PUBA 462    Disaster Recovery and Business Continuation
    PUBA 463    Disaster Recovery and Hazard Mitigation
    PUBA 464    Terrorism and Emergency Management
    PUBA 470    Program Planning and Evaluation
    PUBA 480    Organizational Behavior
    PUBA 481    Ethics and Administration
    PUBA 496    Selected Topics in Public Administration
    PUBA 499    Directed Reading and Research

Graduates with a concentration in General Public Administration from UH West O‘ahu should be able to:

  • Apply the principles of effective public sector management.
  • Identify and evaluate the problems, policy dilemmas, and solutions in public administration.