Executive Master of Public Administration (E.M.P.A.)

Executive Master of Public Administration: Total 30 credit hours

• LDR 501 - Advanced Leadership Theory and Practice 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 704 - Facilitation and Conflict Management 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 720 - Executive Public Administration 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 721 - Seminar in Public Administration 3 to 6 cr hrs (3 cr hrs required)

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• EMPA 722 - Budgetary and Fiscal Management 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 722 - Budgetary and Fiscal Management 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 723 - Public Personnel Management 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 723 - Public Personnel Management 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 724 - Organization and Management 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 724 - Organization and Management 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 733 - Administrative Law and Government 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 733 - Administrative Law and Government 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 764 - Research in Administrative Practice 3 cr hrs
• or  MSAS 764 - Research in Administrative Practice 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 765 - Research Methods in Public Administration 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 769 - Administrative Thought and Ethics 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 769 - Administrative Thought and Ethics 3 cr hrs

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• EMPA 786 - EMPA Capstone 3 cr hrs
• or  MSAS 786 - MSAS Capstone 3 cr hrs
• or  POLS 788 - Professional Report 3 cr hrs

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Ability to develop a communication and leadership strategy appropriate to interacting productively with a diverse array of stakeholders.
2. Ability to develop a proposal to solve an administrative problem that is consistent with the public interest.
3. Ability to develop an appropriate budget impact statement that reflects the proposed organizational change
4. Ability to identify key personnel issues and utilize best practices in addressing those issues from a public service perspective.
5. Ability to identify key organizational design issues and utilize best practices in addressing those issues from a public service perspective.
6. Ability to critically assess and synthesize various decision making tools and strategies utilized by public and non-profit organizations.
7. Ability to adequately consider and apply key constitutional and legal principles for an organization and its relevant stakeholders.
8. Ability to develop an appropriate assessment methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of a proposed plan of action.
9. Ability to adequately consider key ethical issues for an organization and its stakeholders.
10. Ability to understand the public policy process as it relates to an administrative problem faced by a public or non-profit organization.

State Authorization - It Matters Where You Live

If your learning placement course (internship, externship, clinical, rotation, practicum, independent study, study away, etc.) or your online course will be taken outside South Dakota, please reference the State Authorization webpage.

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