John Jay College Of Criminal Justice | The City University of New York

Court Administration
This concentration prepares students for responsibilities involving policy-making and administration in the courts.  Additional materials on the specialization are available from the specialization coordinator.  This specialization has one required course.

Required Courses
Public Administration 760 Judicial Administration

Electives
Criminal Justice 735 Politics of the Judicial Process
Public Administration 710 The Law of Public Employment
Public Administration 713 Management of Information and Technology
Public Administration 741 Administrative Law and Regulation
Public Administration 745 Program Development and Evaluation
Public Administration 758 Ethics, Integrity and Accountability
Public Administration 761 Contemporary Issues in Court Administration

Students may fulfill requirements for this specialization with 6 credits of law courses in civil and criminal procedures.

Criminal Justice Policy and Administration
This concentration prepares students for responsibilities involving policy-making and administration in criminal justice agencies.  The specialization has two required courses. 

Three courses, including the two required courses, must be selected from the following list.

Required Courses
Criminal Justice 730/Public Administration 730 Policy Analysis in Criminal Justice (Prerequisite: PAD 715 or CRJ 715)
Public Administration 719 Delivery Systems in Justice and Urban Services

Electives
Criminal Justice 704 Probation and Parole
Criminal Justice 728 Problems in Contemporary Corrections
Criminal Justice 736 Seminar in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice 741 An Economic Analysis of Crime
Criminal Justice 756 Problems in Police Administration
Criminal Justice 757 The Police and the Community
Criminal Justice 750/Public Administration 750 Security of Information and Technology
Criminal Justice 761 Youth Crime and Delinquency Control
Protection Management 711 Planning and Strategy for Emergency Response
Protection Management 781 Risk Analysis and Loss Prevention Public Administration 745 Program Development and Evaluation
Public Administration 758 Ethics, Integrity and Accountability
Public Administration 760 Court Administration
Public Administration 770 Cases and Techniques in Quantitative Policy Analysis

Two additional courses are to be selected from the following list or from any of the specialization courses in the MPA Program, the MPA-Inspector General Program, or from any of the courses listed under specializations in the Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Program.

Emergency Management
This concentration prepares students for careers in emergency management.  The concentration is designed to emphasize technology and business continuity planning, building design issues and terrorism.  The concentration has three required courses.

Required Courses
Protection Management 711 Introduction to Emergency Management
Protection Management 763 Emergency Management: Preparedness and Response
Protection Management 760 Emergency Management: Mitigation and Recovery

Electives
Protection Management 761 Technology in Emergency Management
Protection Management 762 Business Continuity Planning
Protection Management 781 Risk Analysis and Loss Prevention
Fire Protection Management 703 Analysis of Building and Fire Codes
Fire Protection Management 712 Fire Detection and Protection Systems
Fire Protection Management 751 Contemporary Fire Protection Issues
Public Administration 748 Project Management
Public Administration 758 Ethics, Integrity and Accountability

Human Resources Management
This concentration prepares students to assume supervisory and administrative responsibilities involving personnel management.  The specialization has two required courses.

Required Courses
Public Administration 703 Human Resources Management and Administrative Effectiveness
Public Administration 710 The Law of Public Employment

Electives
Public Administration 707 Advanced Issues in Human Resources Management
Public Administration 708 Labor Relations in the Public Sector
Public Administration 713 Management of Information and Technology
Public Administration 718 International Public Policy and Administration
Public Administration 745 Program Development and Evaluation
Public Administration 758 Ethics, Integrity and Accountability

Law and Public Management
Courses in this specialization may be taken at CUNY Law School at Queens College, The City University of New York, or at other law schools offering comparable courses.

Students must apply to, and be accepted at, law school while enrolled in the MPA Program, and complete their specialization while attending law school.  Subject to the approval of the program director, 12 credits of law courses concerning legal research, civil and criminal procedure, and public institutions and the law, may be transferred for credit.  Students must also pass both parts of the MPA comprehensive examinations and fulfill remaining requirements for the MPA degree.  Students who have completed coursework in law school prior to enrollment in the MPA Program may apply to the program director to transfer up to 12 credits from law school toward this concentration.

Management and Operations
This concentration prepares students to assume supervisory and managerial responsibilities in operational services.  The specialization has two required courses.

Required Courses
Public Administration 712 Management Systems and Techniques in the Public Sector
Public Administration 714 Organizational Performance Assessment

Electives
Public Administration 713 Management of Information and Technology
Public Administration 716 Cases in Productive Public Management
Public Administration 718 International Public Policy and Administration
Public Administration 719 Delivery Systems in Justice and Urban Services
Public Administration 745 Program Development and Evaluation
Public Administration 746 Comparative Public Administration
Public Administration 748 Project Management
Public Administration 758 Ethics, Integrity and Accountability
Public Administration 770 Cases and Techniques in Quantitative Policy Analysis

Urban Affairs
The three courses in this specialization are taken at the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, The City University of New York.  Courses should be selected in consultation with a faculty advisor from each program.  The Urban Affairs courses at Hunter College cover topics such as urban development, social and economic analysis and problem solving in urban and community settings.

Degree Requirements
Students enrolled in the Master of Public Administration Program are required to complete 42 course credits.  Students are also required to pass the MPA preliminary examination, which includes material associated with PAD 700, PAD 702_ and PAD 705.  Students are required to register for these three foundation courses within their first 15 credits of coursework and to take the preliminary examination no later than the end of the semester following completion of the three courses.  The examination is given twice during the academic year, once in the spring and once in the fall.  Fall examinations are administered in early October; spring examinations in early March.

Additional information.  Students, who enroll for the first time at the College in September 2007 or thereafter, must complete the program in the form presented here.  Students who enrolled prior to that date and have consistently maintained matriculation, may choose the form shown here or the version of the program in place at their time of enrollment.