PADM 6000 - Fundamentals and Ethics of Public Service

This course provides an overview of the key concepts of ethics, governance, and accountability in public service, with an emphasis on the role, duties, and responsibilities of the professional administrator. Course content will focus on normative values in public administration, including, the basic structure of democratic government, the tension between politics and public administration, and how various conceptions of the "common good" and normative arguments/moral reasoning are used by program/policy actors to motivate and justify program/policy preferences. These include arguments rooted in constructs such as efficiency, effectiveness, justice, fairness, freedom, and duty/obligation. As a core MPA course, instructors may also include aspects that serve to introduce the student to standards of graduate studies.

Note: Open to graduate students only.

Credits: 3 hours

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