Politics & International Affairs - Northern Arizona University

A description of the program requirements follows. To go to the Graduate Programs page for general information, click HERE. For instructions on applying for admission, click HERE.
Click here for current NAU catalog requirements for the Certificate.
Students in the Public Management Certificate program must complete 12 hours of coursework. The program requires the following, which may be taken in any order:
	Course Requirements	12 hours
	Core	3 hours	POS 541 Public Management or POS 543 Public Organizations
	Skills	3 hours	POS 642 Human Resources Admin or POS 644 Government Budgeting
	Problem Solving/ Professional Experience	3 hours	POS 581 Current Issues in Admin (a variable topics course) or POS 608 Graduate Internship or POS 697 Independent Study
	Specialty Area	3 hours	500 or 600 level Political Science course, selected with advisor approval, and not used to meet some other requirement
This program may be completed entirely on the Web.
The department will regularly offer configurations of courses which enable students to complete all four requirements on the Web in a timely manner. All courses within a block may not be offered on a specific timetable.
POS 541 and 543 are offered exclusively on the Web, and other courses (currently POS 581, POS 644, and POS 642) are offered on the Web in some semesters, in person in others. POS 581 is a topics course, and may be taken twice with different topics (e.g., Water Resources Management, and Conflict Resolution).
No course may be transferred into this program from another university.
Students may choose to take both POS 541 and 543, using one to satisfy the Core and the other to satisfy the Specialty Area. If POS 581 is taken twice with different content, one may be used in the Problem Solving block and the other in the Specialty Area.
Neither POS 541 nor 543 may be applied to any Political Science Masters or Ph.D. program of study. With advisor approval, students may replace 541 or 543 in their Certificate program with POS 641 or 643, respectively; these courses are not offered on the web Gainful Employment Program