Focus on translating a business problem into a research project: formulate hypotheses, identify and locate data sources, consider ways to gather primary and secondary data, perform analysis using major statistical computer packages, effectively present findings and interpretation.Prerequisites: 21:220:231 or equivalent; 29:623:220.
Managerial ideas and techniques for scheduling and controlling production processes, planning, organizing, and controlling functions are developed through quantitative applications, interrelationships, behavioral aspects, and practical applications.Prerequisite: 29:623:220, 21:220:231, or equivalent.
On-site marketing position in a corporate or not-for-profit organization. By arrangement with the Career Development Center and an RBS career management specialist. Prerequisites: 29:010:203, 29:010:204, 29:390:329, 29:620:301, 29:623:220, 29:630:301, and 29:799:301.
On-site management position in a corporate or not-for-profit organization.
By arrangement with the Career Development Center and an RBS career management specialist. Prerequisites: 29:010:203, 29:010:204, 29:390:329, 29:620:301, 29:623:220, 29:630:301, and 29:799:301.
On-site accounting position in a corporate or not-for-profit organization.By arrangement with the Career Development Center and an RBS career management specialist. Prerequisites: 29:010:203, 29:010:204, 29:390:329, 29:620:301, 29:623:220, 29:630:301, and 29:799:301.
The purpose of the internship is to give students a solid working experience at a company within the supply chain management function. Students will work on a part-time basis for up to four continuous months, in compliance with the RBS internship policies and guidelines. The work will be in the area of supply chain with predefined objectives agreed to by both the client company and the faculty adviser. Students will gain practical hands-on experience that will supplement their academic learning in the area of supply chain.
By arrangement with the Career Development Center and an RBS career management specialist. Prerequisites: 29:010:203, 29:010:204, 29:390:329, 29:620:301, 29:623:220, 29:630:301, and 29:799:301.
Independent study is available on a very limited basis as a concentration course for students to investigate a specific topic or issue in depth. Independent study occurs under the direct supervision of a core faculty member. Independent study requires permission from the supervising faculty member and MPA Director approval before students may register. Independent study is limited to 3 credits during the course of the MPA program, and it may count as either a concentration course (with approval) or an elective; Independent Study cannot substitute for a core course.
Requirements to receive credits for independent study:
The M.P.A. program does not require an internship, but encourages internships for precareer and career-changing students. SPAA assists on-campus M.P.A. students in locating internship opportunities with an expanding network of partners in the Newark urban area in local, county, and state government organizations, and among dozens of nonprofit organizations in the surrounding areas. Additionally, the school circulates information about available national and international internship opportunities via regular email announcements. Approval from the M.P.A. director is required before any internship taken for academic credit begins. Students are limited to one 3-credit internship; if a student takes an internship, the credits count toward the student's concentration, which means he or she takes two elective courses from his or her concentration, rather than the customary three. An internship must be related to the student's concentration. After the M.P.A. director approves the request, the student will complete the internship contract and submit it to the department for a special permission number to register for credit. An internship can only count for an elective and cannot replace a core course.
Requirements to receive credits for internship:
Submit a 10- to 20-page research paper relating the internship to the student's concentration (if applicable) at the end of the semester. Prerequisites: Advance completion of internship form and approval of the M.P.A. director prior to enrollment.
Foundations of social theory; Tocqueville, Durkheim, Marx, Weber, and other contributors to major orientations to historical development of modern society in the Western world.
Writing Intensive.
