Public Administration Department
Courses Description
Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration
PBAD 3370 Research Methods for Public Administration
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MATH 1342
One increasingly important task for public administrators is the ability to gather and thoughtfully analyze information and data. Research Methods in Public Administration offers an introduction to some of the key practices and principles associated with conducting research. The goal of this course is to acquaint students with basic methodological concepts and research tools in public administration. The course emphasizes practical application of research methods. A variety of examples is provided to help in gaining better understanding of research methods.
PBAD 3372 Human Resource Management in the Public Sector
3 Credit Hours
This course examines Qatar's human resource system in the public sector with an emphasis on civil service, merit systems, and labor law. Topics include recruiting, selecting, training, compensating, and appraising employees.
PBAD 3373 Public Administration Law
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3372
This course addresses aspects of public and administrative law, including an overview of the judicial systems and courts; litigation; business law; non-profit vs. for profit; wills and trusts; contracts; family law; torts; informed consent, client rights, and confidentiality; labor relations; and conflict resolution.
PBAD 3374 Organizational Theory
3 Credit Hours
Organization theory is currently one of the liveliest areas in all of social. This course provides a set of approaches to the understanding of how organizations form, survive and grow, interact with each other, recruit and process members, gain and manage resources, and deal with problems both internal and external.
PBAD 3375 Public Policymaking
3 Credit Hours
This course serves as a jumping-off point for the study of public policymaking by touching upon all stages or phases of the policymaking process. The policymaking process is presented as a policy cycle – a sequence of functional activities beginning with problem identification and agenda formation, and concluding with the evaluation and the continuation, modification or termination of policy. This policy cycle schema is a workable approach to the study and analysis of public policymaking. In addition, the course looks at some other approaches to the study of policy formation, describes and analyzes the environment of policymaking, makes comparisons across countries and examines some of the logical aspects of policymaking.
PBAD 3376 - Decision Making Theory
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MGMT 4374
This course aims at introducing students to decision-making theory and its stages and principles. This course discusses decision making under certainty, risk and uncertainty conditions and discusses the applications of mathematical tools in decision-making. The course also includes the study of the ethical aspects of administrative decisions.
PBAD 3871 Urban Policy and Administration
3 Credit Hours
This course is an introduction to basic issues in urban policy and administration. This course seeks to provide students with the knowledge necessary to analyze and understand urban problems and politics. The course is fast paced and emphasis is placed on understanding frameworks that describe the dynamics in urban areas and what has been learned through research about the challenges our urban areas face.
PBAD 4371 Public Finance Management
3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of the basic concepts and principles of public financial management and an overview and insight into the financial decision making process. The course deals with the concept of public finance, the fiscal role of government and its evolution, the public budget and its preparation, its laws, principles and kinds. Public budget encompasses studying public expenditures: definition, evolvement determinants, implications, etc.
PBAD 4376 Government Procurement Management
3 Credit Hours
This course is an introduction to government procurement and contracting processes that provides an overview of the ever-changing profession by identifying fundamental concepts that affect procurement in the public sector and how public procurement functions and is organized. This course will introduce the students to the concept of government procurement and its dimensions and components including tendering.
PBAD 4380 Senior Project
3 Credit Hours
An important component of the Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration is the Senior Project course during their Last semester. Students have the option of completing a Research Project or enrolling in a 240-hour internship course. For the research project, small teams analyze real world policy problems faced by Qatari organizations and government agencies and produce a report. Students that enroll in the internship course gain work experience by working at a local organization.
MGMT 3370 Quality Management
3 Credit Hours
Quality Management, also referred to total quality management (TQM) considers quality as an organization-wide management concern. It provides a management approach to conduct the entire organization business (not just the production aspects) in such a manner that every employee has what he needs to perform his job, and that every customer and other outsiders are satisfied and delighted with what they receive from the organization. It takes a "total" view of quality, and is actively pursued in all organization operations. It promotes a total quality environment/culture, identifies a Total Quality Management Plan in conjunction with QA, encourages improvements in products, services and procedures, and serves as a facilitator and catalyst for quality orientation throughout the organization.
MGMT 3371 Organizational Behavior
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the analysis and application of organizational theory, group dynamics, motivation theory, leadership concepts, and the integration of interdisciplinary concepts from the behavioral sciences.
MGMT 3372 E-Business
3 Credit Hours
This course describes the basic principles of e-business technologies. Upon the completion of this course, students should have a good working knowledge of e-business concepts, applications and technologies (e.g. e-business marketplace, e-Commerce, B2B e-business, e- learning, e-government and online payments). In addition, and after understanding the main concepts, students should understand how to initiate and launch online business.
MGMT 3373 Management Information Systems
3 Credit Hours
This course explores current Information Systems concepts and technologies. Students learn how information systems give organization a competitive edge by providing technologies that help managers plan, control and make decisions.
MGMT 3374 International Business Management
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: BUSI 1371
This course is designed to give students a fundamental understanding of the environment in which international business operates and of the business practices required to compete successfully in global markets. A secondary goal for this course is for students to develop the basic decision-making skills associated with managing different aspects of international business.
MGMT 3375 Quantitative Methods Analysis
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3370
This course emphasizes the understanding of the usages of quantitative analysis in the management domain for making better effective decisions. This course encompasses decision-making theory, probability theory, linear programming, transportation and assignment.
MGMT 4371 Strategic Management for Public Sector
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3374
The Strategic Management course is designed to explore an organization's vision, mission, examine principles, techniques and models of organizational and environmental analysis, discuss the theory and practice of strategy formulation and implementation, and emphasizes the value and process of strategic management. It presents a practice-oriented approach to the problems that managers face and aims at the development of integrated strategies for improving performance in solving serious problems in the public sphere.
MGMT 4374 Organizational Leadership
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3374
This course will provide an introduction to key functions in organizations and the impact of leadership influence on employees, customers/clients, board members, partners and others. Roles and responsibilities for the leader as an employee or as a board member will be included. The impact of decision-making will be explored as a process of choosing from several alternatives.
MGMT 4376 Management Control Systems
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3374
The course aims to provide a broad understanding about the control process and reporting system within a challenging environment taking into account the structure, culture and style of the organization with adequate emphasis on key success variables, responsibility centers and management audit.
MGMT 4377 Project Management
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MGMT 4374
This course focuses on the various issues and techniques in managing a project. Topics covered include project life cycle, project definition, project planning, techniques of managing projects, project planning covering cost, quality and time dimensions, responsibility assignment and progress review.
MGMT 4378 Production and Operations Management
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MGMT 3375
This course is an introduction to the concepts, principles, problems, and practices of operations management. Emphasis is on managerial processes for effective operations in both goods-producing and service-rendering organization. Topics include operations strategy, process design, capacity planning, facilities location and design, forecasting, production scheduling, inventory control, quality assurance, and project management. The topics are integrated using a systems model of the operations of an organization.
GOVT 4372 Human Rights
3 Credit Hours
This course will discuss two broad issues about human rights. The first is the theory of human rights in national and international instruments; this part will cover the concept, development and classification of human rights (i.e. civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights). The development of these rights in both national and international regimes will be examined. The second part of this course will deal with the concept of international humanitarian law, its role in the protection of victims of war and its definition and relationship with the work of the ICRC. The main treaties are the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols as well as The Hague Conventions.
LAWC 3374 Law of Public Service
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3372, LAWC 1301
This course explains the law of civil service in Qatar, by showing how the public jobs are organized, described, and filled. It also deals with the legal status of public servants or employees and their duties and rights during and after their service.
LAWC 3375 Public International Law
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: LAWC 1301
This course will introduce the students to the definition of legal binding character, sources, and branches of public international law. It will also deal with different aspects of its applications in peace and war; in particular, the question of international recognition of a state, the states responsibility, succession and means of international disputes settlement.
LAWC 3377 Administrative Law
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3372, LAWC 1301
This course deals with the definition of administrative law, its sources, the actions taken by the public administration in implementing the laws, administrative control, the system of public utilities, administrative legal instrument; administrative decisions, and administrative contracts (public procurement), all of that will be studied in the light of the Qatari Legal System.
HRMA 3371 Talent Acquisition and Management
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3372
This course focuses on the effective management of the flow of talent into and through organizations. It covers human resource planning, recruiting and selection, career transitions and other workforce movement. An important goal of the class will be to provide opportunities to develop hands-on skills that are relevant to effectively managing talent flow, acquisition and development of human resources in organizations and career management for individuals. Some emphasis on using data systems to perform human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, socialization, career development, and withdrawal from work.
HRMA 3372 Performance Management
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HRMA 3371
This course examines the continuous process of identifying measuring, and developing the performance of individuals and teams and aligning their performance with the strategic goals of the organization. Special attention will be placed on developing performance management systems for small and large, for-profit and not-for-profit, and domestic and global organizations, and in all industry segments.
HRMA 3373 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HRMA 3371
This course explores the theories, processes and practical techniques of negotiation so that students can successfully negotiate and resolve disputes in a variety of situations including interpersonal and group settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding influence and conflict resolution strategies; identifying interests, issues, and positions of the parties involved; analyzing co-negotiators, their negotiation styles, and the negotiation situations; and managing the dynamics associated with most negotiations. Practical skills are developed through the use of simulations and exercises.
HRMA 3374 Compensation and Benefits Administration
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HRMA 3371
This course focuses on how managers can strategically utilize compensation to attract, retain, and motivate qualified employees. Students will gain an understanding of the multidisciplinary theories underlying the Qatari Pay System design and implementation. Attention will be given to principles underlying successful compensation systems, including internal alignment, external competitiveness, and pay-for-performance.
COMM 3371 Organizational Communication
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: PBAD 3374
This course teaches the communication within the organization and its relationship to organizational structure, roles, leadership, and management orientations.
SOWK 3375 Human Behavior and Social Environment I
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 1371
As the first of the two human behavior and the social environment courses, this course introduces the ecological systems theory as an umbrella for the generalist practice model. Focus is on the individual life-span approach to human development and reciprocal interactions among individuals, families, and small groups. Issues of values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice and populations at risk are infused throughout the course.
SOWK 3376 Human Behavior and Social Environment II
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 3375
As the second of two human behavior and the social environment courses, this course focuses on the reciprocal relationship between individuals and large groups, organizations, and community systems. The course examines also the ways in which social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Issues of values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice and populations at risk are infused throughout the course.
SOWK 3377 Social Welfare Policy and Services I
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 3376
The first of two social welfare policy and services courses, this course examines the historical roots, mission, and philosophy of social welfare as an institution that responds to human needs and social problems, as well as the social, economic, and political forces that shape social welfare. The political processes for influencing policy formulation processes and improving social welfare services are reviewed, and policy analysis frameworks are introduced.
SOWK 3378 Social Welfare Policy and Services II
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 3377
This course reviews the theory, knowledge, research values, and skills of social welfare policy and services analyses. Emphasis is upon the processes and methods for understanding and analyzing social welfare policies/services. Various welfare policy/services assumptions, socioeconomic political values, and analysis frameworks are examined.
SOWK 3379 Children and Family Practice & Services
3 Credit Hours
Overview of practice and policy issues, problems, and opportunities in providing children and family welfare services. Emphasis is on inter-agency collaborative services, culturally sensitive intervention approaches, managing cases to meet optimally children and family needs.
SOWK 4371 Social and Cultural Diversity
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 1371
This course emphasizes social-economic and environmental conditions, such as socio-cultural and political assumptions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Also emphasized are the oppressed and vulnerable populations' adaptive capabilities and strengths to function under difficult circumstances. Issues of values, ethics, diversity, social and economic justice and populations at risk are infused throughout the course.
SOWK 4372 Medical Social Work
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 1371
This course examines the practice of medical social work in assisting individuals and families in need of medical care, including emotional support that enable them to overcome the psychosocial problems pertaining to illness and hospitalization, and, to master strategies that enable patients to access other resources and assistance that mitigates illnesses and enhances health.
SOWK 4374 Mental Health Social Work
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SOWK 1371
This course examines the nature and presenting characteristics of the major forms of mental and emotional maladjustments that may contribute to problems in social functioning, adaptation, and life satisfaction. It identifies specific categories of dysfunctional behavior, use of standard criteria, and treatments for dysfunctional behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective.
