Normative management behaviors have resulted in the patterns of today--a lack of equity in leadership positions and policies that are less favorable toward women. Meanwhile, public service values, such as respect, equity, diversity, and inclusiveness, are central foci among the professional standards and norms within the public administration…

Describes a public administration course specifically designed for adults. Course competencies are defined and instructional materials are discussed. (RM)

Describes a nine-month planning course offered by Belgium's West Flanders Economic Study Office for Indonesian government officials involved in regional planning services. (Author/WB)

Describes a practical, university level course which applies principles of social science and public administration to the engineering of social change. The course, modeled on the Michigan Department of Human Rights, provides realistic exercises simulating the operations of a real agency involved in social planning and policy change. (GC)

A profile of quantitative methods courses in public administration is presented. Most of these courses use one of two models of learning--the concept attainment model or the nondirective model. How a third and more promising method--the inquiry training model--has been used in the authors' course is described. (RM)

An intensive statistics course, developed as part of the graduate degree program in public administration at the University of Southern California, meets for eight hours on eight consecutive Saturdays. Its salient features include a preparatory period, concentrated class activity, an application period and individual assessment. (JMD)

A San Diego State University (California) graduate course in the School of Public Administration integrates literature study with professional education. Its objectives are to give students vicarious experience with the frustration and alienation felt by potential clients and the dilemmas faced by conscientious administrators and to rekindle…

Describes a Web-based, asynchronous, distance instruction course in public administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Reading Seminar course is both reading and writing intensive. It uses a peer review process that encourages interactivity among students who critique and comment on each other's work. Course evaluations have been…

Discusses the origins and nature of the technological and institutional factors, such as use of spreadsheets and"end-user modeling," that have led to rapid and dramatic changes in how introductory management science is taught. Describes such a course at Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and offers…

Information is presented on current management education courses offered in Western Australia, based on a survey conducted by the Management Education Advisory Group. These management education courses include both undergraduate and graduate courses that cover public administration and educational administration. Four tables provide the following…

Describes a graduate-level public administration course on valuing diversity, which provided opportunities to examine in detail the ethical dilemmas, public attitudes and values, and social consequences of compelling diversity issues. Reports on a content analysis of students' final papers, identifying common themes in students' development of…

Asserts that courses in public administration provide special challenges for feminist instructors because men and women do not always have the same career opportunities or experiences. Describes the content and teaching procedures of a Principles of Public Administration course designed to consider women's issues. (CFR)

For five years, a University of Brighton (England) social policy and administration program has incorporated a student research project into a required research methods course. The sponsored research project places considerable emphasis on student contributions to the research. These features are discussed in the context of one project, a patient…

How a fictitious international corporation is used to train managers in comparative governmental and legal processes is described. Masters of business and public management students are exposed to the simulated operation of an international firm that integrates the economic, market, legal, and political environments of managerial decision making.…