Do undergraduate public administration, policy, and affairs programs mimic graduate curricula?

Miller, Doug

doi:10.1080/15236803.2018.1443261

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“…Studies focusing on programs and schools have examined a variety of units of analysis, including course syllabi (Miller 2018). For instance, Wu et al (2012) have looked at the syllabi of 62 public policy graduate courses offered in East Asia.…”

Section: Examining Policy Education In-depth: International and Comparative Evidencementioning

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Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape

2021

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Public policy education in the Global South has mushroomed in the past 2 decades, concomitant with governance models that provide an alternative to liberal Western democracies. However, not much empirical evidence exists on the drivers and implications of this trend, with few exceptions that point toward a form of internationalization in the policy sciences. This study aims to fill this scholarly gap by comparing 46 public policy schools on various dimensions including degree offerings, institutional establishment and status, and mission. Further, to determine whether a unique model for public policy education is emerging that extends beyond mimicry of longstanding programs in the USA and Western Europe, we surveyed the senior management of the schools in our sample. We find that less than 25% have been directly modeled after a Western school. We discuss the implications of our findings for the practice and study of public policy education.

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Section: Examining Policy Education In-depth: International and Comparative Evidencementioning

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Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape

2021

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“…[Table 1 near here] In relation specifically to public affairs, the SuperStudio approach focuses largely on the "economics" core curriculum category comprising economic, policy design, and policy evaluation issues described by Miller (2019) as more prevalent in graduate public affairs degrees. However, rather than risking curricular mimicking between undergraduate and graduate public affairs education, the SuperStudio instead provides students with competency-based applied experiences that offer a foundation for grappling with more complex decisions in the workplace or graduate school.…”

Section: Superstudio Course Structure and Integrationmentioning

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Designing transdisciplinarity: Exploring institutional drivers and barriers to collaborative transdisciplinary teaching

Velez

Hall

Lewis

2021

Journal of Public Affairs Education

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Employers increasingly desire new graduates to work across boundaries, in teams, and with developed soft skills, especially in public affairs. Likewise, students increasingly seek academic experiences for learning, practicing, and honing transferable, competency-based skills. This suggests instructors should explore alternative pedagogy engaging problem definition and transdisciplinary teamwork. We describe institutional drivers and barriers to collaborative transdisciplinarity in undergraduate teaching and the structure and processes involved in developing a co-taught studio-based capstone involving public affairs students and varied other unrelated majors. We describe the structure through which the "SuperStudio" (1) combines topic concentrations with a shared policy context allowing students to apply disciplinary knowledge to define transdisciplinary problems and (2) fosters collaborative teaching and strategic exploration of overarching issues like problem framing, equity, and effective communication. We then offer lessons learned regarding the drivers and barriers to such efforts, and advice from institutional decision-makers on designing such courses at other institutions.

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“…Christian and Davis (2016) surveyed managers of government organizations and found that IT needs were not being met through the hiring of recent MPA graduates. Miller (2019) analyzed undergraduate public administration programs, concluding that considerable variation existed between the coursework and skills taught to students in member schools of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NAS-PAA), the global accrediting body for public administration. NASPAA's standards were not always implemented, so member schools were not preparing students equally well for the workforce.…”

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E-Government and information technology coursework in public administration programs in Asia

McQuiston

Manoharan

2020

Teaching Public Administration

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New technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain are changing how the public sector serves constituents. Academic programs in public administration and public policy must adapt their coursework to best serve students in an increasingly technology-based world. This qualitative research analyzed 84 Asian public administration graduate programs to determine the degree to which information technology was taught throughout the region. Our findings indicate that considerable variation existed between the number of information technology classes offered and the types of information discussed in the classes. A majority of public administration programs throughout Asia offered coursework in information technology; but, core classes and IT-specific specializations in public administration programs were observed at a much lower rate. Discussions of the tactics taken by programs to educate students in information technologies provide actionable suggestions for practitioners, educators, researchers, and administrators alike.

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Do undergraduate public administration, policy, and affairs programs mimic graduate curricula?

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape

Public policy schools in the global south: a mapping and analysis of the emerging landscape

Designing transdisciplinarity: Exploring institutional drivers and barriers to collaborative transdisciplinary teaching

E-Government and information technology coursework in public administration programs in Asia

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