Core Courses

The first two years of the Ph.D. program are comprised of coursework.  The following are core courses that must be completed in order to be able to take the qualifying exams and comprehensive field exams.  Click the link  for each course for a more complete description of the course.

A. Theory of Public Organization and Administration:

    1. PAI 810: Advanced Seminar: Public Organization Theory and Research

    2. PAI 810: Advanced Seminar: Intellectual History of Public Administration and Democracy

B. Research Design and Methods:                   

    1. PAI 810: Advanced Seminar: Quantitative Methods I   

    2. PAI 810: Advanced Seminar: Quantitative Methods II

    3. Research Methods Elective 

C. Research Methods Elective

    Examples of courses to fill this requirement include:    

    ECN 621/ECN 622: Econometrics I/II

    MAS 777: Time Series Modeling and Analysis

    PAI 810: Advanced Seminar: Applications of Advanced Quantitative Techniques

    PSC 694: Qualitative Political Analysis

    PSC 792: Research Design in Political Science

    PSY 756/EDU 756: Statistical Methods in Psychology III

    PSY 853: Experimental Design and Statistical Tests

    SOC 614/812: Qualititative Methods I/II      

D. Research Seminar

    1. PAI 810: Ph.D. Research Seminar