Program Overview

Public and Non-Profit Administration Certificate of Achievement

Related Degrees & Certificates

• Public and Non-Profit Administration: AS Associate in Science Degree Program (60 units)

Career Opportunities

• Public Administration Specialist Occupations:
  • Compliance Officers (SOC)
  • Management Analysts
  • Urban and Regional Planners
• Public Administration Management Occupations:
  • Administrative Services and Facilities Managers
  • Chief Executives
  • General and Operations Managers
  • Social and Community Service Managers
• Public Administration Community College-level Occupations:
  • Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
  • Office Clerk, General
  • Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing this program will be able to:

• Lead and manage in public governance
• Participate in and contribute to the policy process
• Articulate and apply a public values perspective
• Communicate and interact productively with a diverse and changing workforce and citizenry
• Engage diverse stakeholders and facilitate civil civic discourse, community participation, and public-private cooperation

Program Overview

The Certificate of Achievement in Public and Nonprofit Administration provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and manage people, programs, and organizations in the governmental and nonprofit sectors. In addition to analytical and communications skills relevant to the management professions, students focus on areas of public management, public budgeting and finance, and nonprofit studies.

Program Requirements

Requirements

• Required Core Courses: 21 units
  • BUS. 401: Business Communications (3 units)
  • OR COMM 115: Survey of Human Communication (3 units)
  • OR COMM 150: Intercultural Communication (3 units)
  • MGMT 100: Introduction to Management (3 units)
  • MGMT 104: Leadership Theory (3 units)
  • MGMT 220: Organizational Behavior (3 units)
  • PNPA 100: Foundations of Public Administration (3 units)
  • PNPA 101: Foundations of the Non-profit Sector (3 units)
  • PNPA 102: Ethics in Public Administration (3 units)

Total Required Units: 21