Business Administration: BS, with Public Administration Concentration

Program Outcomes

• Students will analyze the political, economic and legal dynamics of the policy-making environment and its impact on the work of public administrators.
• Students will explain institutional, demographic and ideological contexts within which public policies are formulated and implemented.
• Students will list and appraise major trends and shifts in the future shape and direction of public administration.
• Students will illustrate the role of public organizations in a democratic society.

Curriculum and Degree Requirements

The minimum number of units necessary to receive the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Public Administration Concentration, including courses for the major, the business core, general education, and free electives, exclusive of foundation courses is 120 units.

Curriculum Plan

Foundation Courses

15 units*
*Requirement will be determined by placement testing

• EN 090T - Review of English
• EN 100T - English Fundamentals
• SC 090T - Review of Math
• SC 100T - Math Fundamentals
• MS 100T - Fundamentals of Microcomputers

General Education

45 units

• CU 101T - Student Success
    
  3 units
• Two (2) each from Groups 1 and 3
  12 units
  1. Oral/Written/Visual Communication (must take EN150T and EN230T to ensure Oral Communication unless comparable courses have been taken/transferred in)
  3. Math/Data Analysis - must choose College Math and another course which fits the needs of the student’s chosen major/profession
• Two (2) each from Groups 2, 4, and 5
  18 units
  2. Arts/Humanities
  4. Natural/Physical Sciences
  5. Social/Behavioral Sciences
• General Education Electives - choose four (4) from groups 1 - 5
  12 units

Business Core

36 units

• AC 201T - Accounting Principles I
• EC 201T - Macroeconomics
• EC 202T - Microeconomics
• FN 312T - Financial Management
• LA 200T - Contracts, Agency, Partnerships, Corporations
• MG 200T - Administrative Management
• MG 250T - Human Resource Management
• MG 370T - Organizational Behavior
• MG 390T - Operations Management
• MS 182T - Introduction to Information Systems
• MS 305T - Business Systems Analysis
• PH 306T - Business Ethics

Major Core

36 units

• EC 317T - Public Finance
• ES 200T - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• HI 345T - The Age of Globalization
• MG 285T - Principles of Management and Leadership
• MG 290T - Labor Relations Management
• PL 232T - Structure of Local and State Government
• PL 240T - Introduction to International Studies
• PL 332T - Public Administration
• PL 350T - Business and Government
• PL 400T - Public Policy Analysis
• PL 423T - Internship in Public Administration
• PL 440T - Seminar in Public Administration

Free Electives

3 units