POSC 412 - Bureaucratic Politics and Administrative Law

Units: 3; GE-UD-D
Politics of bureaucracy, government regulations, administrative law, public institutions and and administration, civil service reform, public finances and budgets, human resource management, collective bargaining, workplace discrimination, ethics, regulation within government institutions, role of non-profit agencies to provide services.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Develop a basic overview to public administration and the laws that govern the administrative state.
Learn about the organization and structure of the U.S. bureaucracy, including the challenges that government agencies face in terms of reflecting the diversity of the American population, and in providing equitable services to those who reside in the U.S.
Build an understanding of how public policy is implemented by the government’s executive branch and the non-profit sector including how administrative rules are made, and how policies are implemented and enforced in America’s diverse communities.
Gain knowledge of the political, economic, and ethical consequences of public policymaking and administrative rules and regulations.
Learn to analyze and write about course subjects in the public adminstration field, work in groups to build collaborative skills, and make an oral presentation on one of those subjects.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.