2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Minor in Public and Non-Profit Administration

Describes the theories and practices of public and non-profit administration in the United States and the development, implementation, and evaluation of government policies and programs. Topics include administrative structures themselves and the day-to-day efforts within these organizations across the three core competencies of the discipline, including introduction to Public and Non-Profit Administration, Public and Non-Profit Management, and Grants & Budgets. Students will supplement the core competencies with three elective courses.

Not open to Political Science minors or Political Science majors with concentrations in American Government and Politics or Public and Non-Profit Administration.

18 Credits

Required core courses, 9 credits

POLS 260Public and Non-Profit Administration

3

POLS 351Public and Non-Profit Management

3

POLS 454Grants and Budgets

3

Electives, 9 credits

POLS 337State and Local Politics

3

or

POLS 338Urban Issues and Governance

3

 

POLS 342Public Policy Issues

3

POLS 435Controversies in Federalism

3

POLS 453Public and Non-Profit Human Resources

3

POLS 455Administrative Law

3

While this minor is open to students majoring in any other program, it is open to only one group of Political Science majors: those completing the Global Politics and International Affairs concentration.

Total Credit Hours: 18