Course Offerings
Graduate Calendar: Official Curricula of the MPPA program
CORE COURSES (Required):
- PA8100: Public Administration and Governance
- PA8101: Policy Analysis & Challenges
- PA8102: The State and The Economy
- PA8103: Research Methods
For Course Option:
- six courses from the electives listed below.
For the Major Research Project Option:
- Major Research Paper
- four courses from the electives listed below
For the Thesis Option:
- Master's Thesis
- two courses from the electives listed below
ELECTIVE COURSES:*
- PA8200: Bureaucracy & Organization
- PA8201: Citizen Oriented Governance & Globalization
- PA8202: Comparative Public Policy
- PA8203: Comparative Public Administration
- PA8204: Intergovernmental Relations
- PA8205: Provincial Government and Politics in Ontario
- PA8206: Urban Governance
- PA8207: Public Sector Financial Management
- PA8208: Public Sector Union-Management Relations
- PA8209: Changing Boundaries: The Third Sector
- PA8210: Public Sector: Diversity and Equity
- PA8211: Selected Topics: Public Admin
- PA8212: Directed Studies: Public Admin
- PA8213: Field Placement (available to full-time students only)
- PA8214: Topics in Public Policy
- PA8215: Values, Political Culture, and Governance
- PA8216: International Development Policy and Administration
- PA8217: Accountability and Ethics
- PA8218: Indigenous Law and Policy in Canada
- SS8000: Stat Analysis in Social Science Research
* Not all elective courses will be offered in a given academic year. The current list may be expanded as enrolments increase, the program develops and new faculty or adjunct faculty become involved with the program.