- APPLY
- ADMISSIONS EVENTS
- ACADEMICS
- PEOPLE
- STUDENT RESOURCES
- ALUMNI
- IISC
- APPLY
- ADMISSIONS EVENTS
- ACADEMICS
- PEOPLE
- STUDENT RESOURCES
- ALUMNI
- IISC
The Master of Public Affairs (MPAff) requires 42 semester hours. As an interdisciplinary program, courses are offered by the School of Planning and Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science, as well as from other units such as Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business, Strategic Communications in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and the Larned Waterman Nonprofit Resource Center in the College of Law.
7 core courses
1 internship
5 electives (including 3 taken within a concentration)
a one-semester capstone project
For the capstone project students will engage in analysis of a contemporary public policy problem plus development of recommended action steps. This will be done in tandem with the University’s Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities (IISC) which for has been providing public consultation to communities in Iowa for over a decade.
PBAF:5111 | American Public Policy | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:5117 | Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:5200 | American State Politics | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6200 | Analytic Methods I | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6205 | Economics for Policy Analysis | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6233 | Public Finance and Budgeting | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6240 | Public Management | 3 s.h. |
First Semester | |||
PBAF:5117 | Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration | core | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:5200 | American State Politics | core | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6200 | Analytic Methods I | core | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6205 | Economics for Policy Analysis | core | 3 s.h. |
Second Semester | |||
PBAF:5111 | American Public Policy | core | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6233 | Public Finance and Budgeting | core | 3 s.h. |
PBAF:6240 | Public Management | core | 3 s.h. |
Concentration or Elective | elective | 3 s.h. | |
Third Semester | |||
PBAF:6335 | Internship | core | 3 s.h. |
Concentration or Elective | elective | 3 s.h. | |
Concentration or Elective | elective | 3 s.h. | |
Fourth Semester | |||
PBAF:6210 | Public Affairs Capstone | capstone | 3 s.h. |
Concentration or Elective | elective | 3 s.h. | |
Concentration or Elective | elective | 3 s h |