IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2010-2012

• Admissions
  • Master of Public Affairs
  • MS in Criminal Justice and Public Safety
• Certificate Programs
  • Certificate in Homeland Security and Emergency Management
  • Certificate in Nonprofit Management
  • Certificate in Public Management
  • Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship
  • Executive Graduate Certificate in Library Management
• Contact Information
• Degree Programs
  • Master of Public Affairs
  • Master of Public Affairs-Doctor of Jurisprudence
  • Master Public Affairs-M.A. in Philanthropic Studies
  • M.S. in Criminal Justice and Public Safety
• Student Learning Outcomes

Graduate Programs

Student Learning Outcomes

Master of Public Affairs (MPA)

General Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the MPA degree program, students shall:

• Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage public and nonprofit organizations.
• Demonstrate the ability to participate in and contribute to the policy process.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, think critically, solve problems and make decisions.
• Demonstrate the ability to articulate and apply a public service perspective.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry.

Concentrations will have the above general outcomes plus the additional ones listed below.

Criminal Justice Concentration
Upon completion of this concentration, students will:

• Identify and critically analyze current criminal justice policies, using available research, and discuss the strengths and limitations of various approaches.
• Communicate effectively within a complex and diverse criminal justice or public safety environment.
• Rigorously analyze criminal justice and public safety policies using a variety of tools, including quantitative research methods and statistical techniques.
• Define crime, discuss and evaluate major theories of crime, and critically discuss criminal justice system and non-criminal justice programs and policies that respond to crime.

Policy Analysis Concentration
Upon completion of thI concentration, students shall:

• Demonstrate the ability to rigorously analyze public policies using a variety of tools, including microeconomics, institutional analysis, and other common public affairs models of policy development, implementation and evaluation using quantitative, qualitative and mixed approaches.
• Demonstrate experience in the practical conduct and communication of results of policy analysis.

Public Management Concentration
Upon completion of this concentration, students should:

• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate management practices, using a variety of outcome measurements to assess efficacy, efficiency and economic costs and benefits.
• Demonstrate experience in the conduct of management tasks, and the ability to communicate effectively with the appropriate constituencies.

Nonprofit Management Concentration
Upon completion of this concentration, students will:

• Demonstrate the managerial and policy skills to effectively undertake leadership roles in the nonprofit sector.
• Demonstrate the managerial and policy skills to effectively undertake leadership roles in the public or private sectors as they apply to working with organizations in the nonprofit sector.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the philanthropic tradition in the broadest sense (voluntary action for the public good).