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Click on the name of an online public services graduate course to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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Administration of Corrections (CR516) |
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American Public University |
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The course will develop student?s capacity to develop and evaluate policies and procedures in all parts of the correctional administration arena. Judicial decisions which impact the legal status of the operation of correctional institutions and offender confinement will be examined. |
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Administrative Theory (DM610) |
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American Public University |
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This course covers the major administrative theories that drive macro-level public behavior. It will begin with a consideration of the broad significance of the study of public organizations for individuals in modern society. It will then examine how theorists and practitioners have sought to develop more formal perspectives on public management. It will not merely present an historical overview of the development of administrative theory, but rather it will examine those ideas that are of greatest relevance to the construction of an integrated theory of public organizations. The progression of the course follows the evolution of administrative theory from the pioneering work of Weber, Taylor and Woodrow Wilson to current theories regarding the ?New Public Management.? It will discuss the ?dichotomies? of public administration, i.e., public versus private, policy (or politics) versus administration and fact versus value. |
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Advanced Management/Organizational Development (DM519) |
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Public Services |
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American Public University |
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This course is an in-depth study of successful business operational concepts and advanced management techniques used by companies involved in Federal contracts. Stress is placed on practical, hands-on management practices, including strategic planning. |
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Afghanistan Country Analysis (IN580) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an in-depth analysis of the intelligence issues, cultural diversity, economic factors, tribal distribution and loyalties, proposals to establish national army, political aspects, and geography of Afghanistan. The course's primary focus is on the operational environment in Afghanistan and its border regions. Specifically, the course will analyze the current governmental structure and assess the challenges it faces in establishing law and order. The student will also distinguish the tribal organizations and relevant areas controlled, as well as the relationship between the tribes and the nascent government authority. The course is especially recommended for students who expect to be assigned to the region as a military, government, or Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO) representative. |
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Air Power (AW500) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the advent of air power and the changes it has wrought on the nature and conduct of war in the modern age. The course will examine aviation's role in revolutionizing the battlefield by expanding the scale and scope of conflict from two to three diminsions. Course topics include discussion of air power methods and strategy, and the geopolitical implications of air power's destructive capacity vis-a-vis civilian populations, economies, and collateral damage. |
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Air Power in Small Wars (AW524) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of air power in operations by regular armed forces against irregular opponents. The course will study this role in small wars from its emergence as a element of military strategy dating back before World War I and all the way to the present day. Course topics include the role of air power in combating bandits, guerrillas, terrorists, and other unconventional adversaries. |
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Air War In Southeast Asia (AW504) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of air war over Vietnam from 1964-1973. The course will examine the strenths and weaknesses of the role of air power in military strategy based on the characteristics of the Vietnam conflict. This course also examines the various modes of airpower used by the United States in the prosecution of the war in Vietnam including strategic bombing, air to air combat, and close air support of infantry operations. |
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Air War in the Pacific (AW508) |
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American Public University |
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The history of the air war fought in the Pacific during World War II. This course will emphasize the use of aircraft over the broad expanses of the Pacific Ocean, the use of aircraft in support of amphibious operations, the bombing campaign against the Japanese Home Islands, and the delivery of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that effectively ended the war. |
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Air Warfare in the 21st Century (AW506) |
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American Public University |
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A prospective examination of the technology (airframes, weapons, avionics), strategic concepts and aerial combat tactical doctrine that will dominate air warfare in the dawn of the next century. |
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Air Warfare in World War I and the Interwar Period (AW512) |
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American Public University |
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The use of aircraft for reconnaissance, and then for bombing and combat, in World War I is discussed. The development of strategic bombing doctrine by Douhet and Billy Mitchell is examined in detail. |
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Air Warfare Reading Course (RC703) |
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American Public University |
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Designed to integrate the student's past work in the major field and to fill gaps in this area prior to the comprehensive final examination. After a review of graduate experience, the student and professor design a reading list to round out preparation for the comprehensive examination. |
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Airborne and Air Assault Operations (LW535) |
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American Public University |
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This course covers why airborne operations, glider and air assaults were used and how those operations unfolded. Airborne paratroop, glider infantry and more recent air assault operations will be compared and contrasted with others such as the Fallschirmjagers? to determine common elements such as training, motivation and leadership, tactics, air support and war fighting skills. Operations will include those in Scandinavia, Belgium, Crete, Italy, Holland, France, Viet-Nam and Panama. |
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Allied Invasion of Southern France (LW650) |
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American Public University |
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This course appraises the political/military, operational, and tactical issues associated with the Allied invasion of southern France. Course topics include study of the most successful amphibious invasion of World War II, political disagreements and resolutions surrounding "Dragoon," similarities and differences between the southern France and Normandy invasions, command structures and order of battle of both sides, mapping and flow of the invasion, and overall contributions of the invasion to the ultimate outcome of World War II. |
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Allied Military Leadership (LW633) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the Allied military leadership in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, to include each nation?s leading military leaders and lesser/minor leaders; the different systems and structures of command and organization; and the respective militaries? guiding philosophies, doctrine, and strategic thought. Course topics include the lessons learned from the various military leaders, leadership, and systems that produced the World War II generation of leaders. |
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Allied Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy (LW632) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the political leadership that defined the Allied powers of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia before, during, and post-World War II. The many different political leaders and dynamics are studied in their relation to the enormity of the war effort itself; key in this study is a focus on ?lesser? political leaders and dynamics that have escaped a thorough examination of their contributions (or lack thereof) in lieu of the dominance of the ?big three?: Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt. Course topics will address include study of the political situations of the occupied countries, and those situations? contributions to the occupied countries defeats at the hands of Germany. The course will conclude with the politics and political personalities that defined the post-war world, with an examination of the strengths and weaknesses of post-war political contributions in lieu of one-half century of history. |
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America's Early Conflicts (LW514) |
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American Public University |
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A military history of the United States at war between 1789 and 1815 to include the social, economic, political, diplomatic, and operational aspects of the Quasi War, the Barbary States conflict, and the War of 1812. This course includes the study of the battles and campaigns, contemporary strategies and tactics, weapons and technology of the day, and the experiences of the soldier and the civilian. An emphasis is placed upon the land campaigns of the War of 1812. |
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America's Indian Wars (LC516) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a survey of the westward expansion of Europeans and the United States from colonial times to the 1890s as it results in military conflict with the various Native American Indian tribes living between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. |
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American Military Technology (DM547) |
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American Public University |
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This course covers the roles that inventors, industrialists, and military-technologists have played in developing armaments for the American military. It provides an overview of the history of US armament research and development, as well as a futurist outlook on where the information age may lead us. The course is designed to assist the student in understanding the social dynamics and problems associated with technological innovation. |
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Amphibious Warfare (NW538) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an historical study and analysis of the development and employment of amphibious warfare from its genesis to modern times. This course includes study of: the innerwar period, when amphibious warfare had its most shining moments; great amphibious warfare "propets," and the great principles of the amphibious operation. |
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Analysis of Vulnerability (IN530) |
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American Public University |
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This course stresses the methods of identifying the vulnerabilities of the United States to hostile targeting of our military, economic, societal, political, and infrastructure assets. Students will conduct an in-depth study of a potential US target of vital national security interest to determine the level of vulnerability to hostile activity. This will be accomplished through the development of a threat assessment; analyses of current capabilities to mitigate those identified threats and the preparation of a formal vulnerability assessment in National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) format. Each student is required to produce a carefully prepared study of one US vital national security interest within the continental United States (CONUS) or abroad. |
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