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Colin G. Gallagher, RPCV, E.M.P.A.

Executive Master of Public Administration (Unofficial Transcript)

Golden Gate University ~ Monterey Bay (8/09)

The following courses prepared me for performing human resources functions:

EMPA 307Personnel Management and Labor Relations -- contemporary issues surrounding

employer/employee relations in public sector organizations, including images of public service, work life in

organizations, staffing, training and development, merit systems, labor relations, equal employment

opportunity and affirmative action and job evaluation; developments in public service employees' collective

bargaining legislation, improved employee participation programs, and strategies and techniques used in

conflict resolution.

EMPA 306Public Service and the Law -- trends and challenges in administrative law and judicial

administration, including cases applicable to personnel and evaluation of discrimination or harassment.

EMPA 396Graduate Research Project in Public Management -- how to conduct a rigorous and

empirically driven policy research project which integrates and synthesizes the knowledge and skills

acquired from all the courses in the program, including crafting credible policy recommendations and

presenting them for peer and faculty review and criticism in the form of a capstone project.

Course/Section and Title Grade Credits Term

EMPA-396 MY1 Graduate Research Project in Public

ManagementB+ 4.00 09/UC

EMPA-302 MY1 Public Policy Analysis & Program Evaluation A- 4.00 09/UB

EMPA-301 MY1 Research Methods and Analysis A 4.00 09/SC

EMPA-307 MY1 Personnel Management and Labor Relations A 4.00 09/SB

EMPA-306 MY1 Public Service and the Law A 4.00 08/FC

EMPA-304 MY1 Public Enterprise Management and Public

Sector Business Relations A+ 4.00 08/FB

EMPA-303 MY1 Organizational Analysis and Development A 4.00 08/UC

EMPA-305 MY1 Budgeting and Financial Management A 4.00 08/UB

EMPA-300 MY1 Theory, Ethics, and Practice in Public Service A- 4.00 08/SC

Total Earned Credits 36.00

Total Grade Points 138.80

Cumulative GPA 3.856

The Executive Master of Public Administration program introduced me to:

key thinkers in public policy and administration, including judicial management (EMPA 300);

ethical dilemmas in the theory and practice of public administration;

ethical dilemmas in the theory and practice of public management (EMPA 300);

writing, analytical and research tools required by professional public managers, with anemphasis on methods of identifying problems, developing a research strategy, and creating a

formal research proposal (EMPA 301);

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identification of secondary sources essential to public policy and management research,

including the use of the Internet as a research tool (EMPA 301);

appropriate qualitative and quantitative research methodologies (EMPA 301); the use ofmulti-media presentation methods (EMPA 301);

the dynamic operating environment of the policy analyst, including an examination of the

frames of reference that both guide and constrain work in the field (EMPA 302); policy analytical paradigms and historical themes in policy literature, and the applications of

major tools in policy analysis and program evaluation, including benefit-cost analysis, factor

analysis and time series analysis (EMPA 302);

development and current emphases in organization theory from scientific management to the

present (EMPA 303);

uses of pertinent theories in management and leadership as well as the specific diagnosis andintervention tools and strategies employed in organizational development and change, including

experiential skill-building techniques, action research, work design and organizational

development methods (EMPA 303);

trends toward market-based public service delivery systems, public sector reform, and

privatization (EMPA 304); how public administrators in many levels of government are being challenged to become more

entrepreneurial in their management of public enterprises (EMPA 304);

contracting with private firms to provide public services, including skills and competency incontract management, marketing, customer service and quality management (EMPA 304);

financial administration in public and not-for-profit organizations including concepts and

activities in public financial management, budgeting, taxation, revenue planning, borrowing,fiscal controls, and the analytical skills needed to direct and control public fiscal activities

(EMPA 305);

the nature of public expenditure controls, the budget cycle (preparation, submission, review,adoption, execution and evaluation), financial management, and legislative and accounting

analysis of budgets (EMPA 305);

trends and challenges in administrative law and judicial administration (EMPA 306);

major constitutional and statutory provisions that impact public service activities, includingconstitutional law and special provisions of the California Constitution, the Freedom of

Information Act, the Federal and California Administrative Procedures Acts, The Brown Act and

the Privacy Act (EMPA 306);

contemporary issues surrounding employer/employee relations in public sector organizations,

including images of public service, work life in organizations, staffing, training and

development, merit systems, labor relations, equal employment opportunity and affirmativeaction and job evaluation (EMPA 307);

developments in public service employees' collective bargaining legislation, improvedemployee participation programs, and strategies and techniques used in conflict resolution

(EMPA 307); and

how to conduct a rigorous and empirically driven policy research project which integrates and

synthesizes the knowledge and skills acquired from all the courses in the program, including

crafting credible policy recommendations and presenting them for peer and faculty review and

criticism in the form of a capstone project (EMPA 396).