Curriculum

Required core courses (7.5 credits)

• PA 5003 Introduction to Financial Analysis and Management (1.5 credits)
• PA 5251 Strategic Planning and Management (3 credits)
• PA 5101 Management and Governance of Nonprofit Organizations (3 credits)

Note: All core courses must be taken for a letter grade.

Electives (A minimum of 9 credits)

You may select electives from the following list and your program plan must be approved by a faculty adviser. Other courses may be used if approved by your adviser.

Leadership:

• PA 5190 Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
• PA 5190 Managing Conflicts (3 credits)
• PA 5311 Program Evaluation (3 credits)
• PA 5941 Leadership for the Common Good (4 credits)
• PubH 6727 Health Leadership and Effecting Change (2 credits)
• SW 8552 Advanced Community Practice: Leadership, Planning, and Program Development (2 credits)
• SW 8561 Human Resources Management in Human Services Agencies (2 credits)
• SW 8902 Social Work Supervision, Consultation and Leadership (2 credits)
• EDPA 5501 Principles and Methods of Program Evaluation (3 credits)

Integrative leadership:

• PA 5103 Leadership and Change in an Innovation Society (4 credits
• PA 5941 Leadership for the Common Good (4 credits)
• SW 5904 Facilitation & Conflict Mgmt: A Humanistic Approach (2 credits)
• EDPA 8020 Leadership: From Theory to Reflective Practice (3 credits)
• MGMT 6402/ PA 5190 Integrative Leadership Seminar (2 credits)
  

Finance and fundraising:

• PA 5111 Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (3 credits)
• PA 5123 Financing Nonprofits: Philosophies and Realities (3 credits)
• PubH 6557 Healthcare Finance (2 credits)
• SW 8562 Human Services Finances (2 credits)

Changing organizational environment:

• PA 5012Politics of Public Affairs (3 credits)
• PA 5102 Organization Performance and Change (3 credits)
• PA 5104 Strategic Human Resource Management (3 credits)
• PA 5190 Social Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
• PA 5405 Public Policy Implementation (3 credits)
• PubH 6751 Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations (2 credits)
• SW 8551 Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy (2 credits)
• SW 5911 Gloabal Social Work and Social Development (2 credits)
• HRD 5301 Organization Development (3 credits)

Policy analysis:

• PA 5002 Introduction to Policy Analysis (1.5 credits)
• SW 5801 Policies and Programs in American Social Welfare (2 credits)
• SW 8563 Advanced Policy Advocacy (2 credits)
• EDPA 8703 Public Policy in Higher Education (3 credits)
  

Arts management:

• ACL 5220/LS 5100 Securing & Sustaining Resources (3 credits)
• ACL 5200/LS 5100 Trends & Impacts in Arts & Cultural Leadership & Management (3 credits)
• LS 5100 Gateway to Intercultural Dialogue: Socially Engaged Art Forms (3 credits)
• ACL 5230/LS 5100 Ethical & Legal Issues in Arts Policy & Law (3 credits)
• LS/IS 5100 Leading Innovation in 21st Century Minnesota, (3 credits)

Other:

• SW 8802 Social Policy and Economic Security of Disadvantaged Populations (2 credits)
• SW 8804 Child Welfare Policy (2 credits)
• SW 8805 Aging and Disability Policy (2 credits)
• SW 8806 Health and Mental Health Policy (2 credits)
• SW 8807 International and Comparative Social Welfare Policy (2 credits)