Fall 2025 Schedule

Assignment Schedule
Week Date Class Type Task Grade Share Completion
1 8/19 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
1 8/25 PSPA 600 Individual Course Project Policy Statement 5%
2 9/26 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
3 9/2 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
3 9/8 PSPA 600 General Assignment Ethics Statement 10%
4 9/9 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
4 9/15 PSPA 600 Individual Course Project Annotated Outline 20%
5 9/16 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
5 9/22 PSPA 600 General Assignment DiSC Analysis 5%
6 9/23 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
6 9/29 PSPA 600 General Assignment Digital Portfolio 10%
7 9/30 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
8 10/6 PSPA 600 General Assignment Individual Writing Assignment 10%
8 10/7 PSPA 600 General Assignment Reading Summary 0.625%
8 10/7 PSPA 600 Group Course Project Policy Brief Paper and Memo 20%
8 10/7 PSPA 600 Group Course Project Policy Brief Presentation 20%
Reading Schedule
Week Course Reading Information Completion
1 PSPA 600 ST: Preface & Chapter 1 – The Oath and the Opportunity
1 PSPA 600 Box: Public Service Values, Chapter 1-3
1 PSPA 600 SH: 1st & 2nd Overviews in Classics (p 3–15) and (p 85–97)
1 PSPA 600 SH: Wilson: “The Study of Administration”
1 PSPA 600 SH: Goodnow: “Politics and Administration”
1 PSPA 600 BB: Stivers, Settlement Women and Bureau Men: Constructing a Usable Past for PA
2 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 2 – The Attitude of a Public Servant
2 PSPA 600 SH: Rosenbloom “PA Theory and Separation of Powers”
2 PSPA 600 BB: Ethics Codes (ICMA, GFOA, ASPA, ARNOVA)
2 PSPA 600 BB: ICMA, Ethics and Ideals
2 PSPA 600 BB: Svara (2014) Who Are the Keepers of the Code?
2 PSPA 600 BB: Bromley & Orchard (2016) Managed Morality: The rise of the professional codes of conduct in the US nonprofit sector
2 PSPA 600 BB: McCandless & John C. Ronquillo (2019) Social equity in professional codes of ethics UN Sustainable Develop Goal 16 (targets & indicators)
3 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 3 – A Reflective Practitioner’s Philosophy
3 PSPA 600 SH: Part 4 Overview, pp.359-362 and pp.368-377
3 PSPA 600 SH: Weber: Bureaucracy
3 PSPA 600 SH: NPR, Red Tape to Results
3 PSPA 600 BB: Bureaucrnpracy and the Imaginal Realm
3 PSPA 600 BB: Farazmand Globalization and Public Administration
3 PSPA 600 BB: Slaughter, Disaggregated Sovereignty and Accountability
3 PSPA 600 BB: Bryson Crosby and Bloomberg, Public Value Governance
3 PSPA 600 BB: Bromley and Meyer: They are all organizations: The cultural roots of blurring between sectors
3 PSPA 600 BB: Segal: Sandy Springs A Georgia Town Takes the Peoples Business Private
4 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 4 – Implementing Public Policy and Using Networks
4 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 5 – Performance-Based Management: An Opportunity Squandered
4 PSPA 600 Book: Matthews (2020), With the People: An Idea
4 PSPA 600 Box: Public Service Values, Chapter 4
4 PSPA 600 SH: Lindblom The Science of Muddling Through
4 PSPA 600 SH: Kingdon, Agenda, Alternatives, and Public Policy
4 PSPA 600 BB: Norton Long Power and Administration
4 PSPA 600 BB: Six Thinking Hats (TED video)
4 PSPA 600 BB: Backward Mapping and Design (video)
4 PSPA 600 BB: Ink/Thurmaier, Chs. 1 and 2, Includes Fargo Book: Matthews (2020), With the People: An Idea
6 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 6 – Government’s Greatest Achievements
6 PSPA 600 Box: Public Service Values, Chapter 7
6 PSPA 600 SH: Agranoff Collaborative Networks
6 PSPA 600 BB: Thurmaier, et al: Alternative Service Delivery (Ch. 7)
6 PSPA 600 BB: Thomson and Perry, Collaboration processes
6 PSPA 600 BB: Slaughter, Global Government Network
7 PSPA 600 ST: Chapter 7 – Qualities Needed by Future Public Servants
7 PSPA 600 Box: Public Service Values, Chapter 6
7 PSPA 600 SH: Krislov: Representative Bureaucracy
7 PSPA 600 SH: Thomas: From Affirmative Action to Affirmative Diversity
7 PSPA 600 BB: Linos More than public service…Diversity in the Police
7 PSPA 600 BB: Stivers: So Poor and so Black”: Hurricane Katrina, Public Administration, and the Issue of Race
7 PSPA 600 BB: Norman-Major Balancing the 4 E’s
7 PSPA 600 BB: Frederickson State of Social Equity
7 PSPA 600 BB: Weisinger et al: Diversity in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
8 PSPA 600 Box: Public Service Values, Chapter 5 & Chapter 8
8 PSPA 600 SH: Part 5, Overview (533-542)
8 PSPA 600 SH Adams and Balfour: In the Face of Admin. Evil
8 PSPA 600 SH: O’Leary: The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerilla Government
8 PSPA 600 BB: Dunn and Legge: US Local Government Managers and the Complexity of Responsibility and Accountability in a Democratic System
8 PSPA 600 BB: Busuoic: Accountable Artificial Intelligence: Holding Algorithms to Account
8 PSPA 600 BB: Brown and Head: Navigating Tensions in Co- Production: Amissing Link in Leadership for Public Value