Human Resource Administration (Pre-2008)
Requirements for students admitted prior to summer 2008
The Master of Public Administration human resource administration concentration offered by the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Western Michigan University is composed of seven three-credit hour courses (21 credit hours): one course each from Areas I, II, III, and V, and three courses from Area IV.
Area I: legal dimensions
- FCL 6820: Managerial Aspects of Labor Law (three credit hours)
- PADM 6110: Administrative Law and Governmental Regulation (three credit hours)
- PSCI 5260: Administrative Law and Public Regulation (three credit hours)
Area II: budgeting and finance
- PADM 6120: Principles of Public Budgeting (three credit hours)
Area III: health care environment and policy development
- PADM 6270: Human Resources Administration (three credit hours)
- PADM 6290: Supervisory Skills for Administrators (three credit hours)
Area IV: electives
- ECON 6160: Collective Bargaining in Public Employment (three credit hours)
- CECP 6400: Principles of Human Resources Development (three credit hours)
- CECP 6410: Fundamentals of Needs Analysis (three credit hours)
- CECP 6420: Evaluation of Human Resources Development Transfer and Impact (three credit hours)
- CECP 6450: Practicum in Human Resources Development (three credit hours)
- EDLD 6630: Personnel Administration (three credit hours)
- MGMT 6170: Managing Human Resources and Behavior (three credit hours)
- MGMT 6270: Strategic HRM (three credit hours)
- PADM 6270: Human Resources Administration (three credit hours)
- PADM 6290: Supervisory Skills for Administrators (three credit hours)
- PSY 6430: Personnel Selection and Placement (three credit hours)
- PSY 6440: Personnel Training and Development (three credit hours)
- PSY 6510: Applied Behavior Analysis: A Systems Approach (three credit hours)
Area V: capstone
- PADM 6800: Project Paper Seminar (three credit hours)