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