MSWK 6834 - Public Budgeting and Finance

Credits: 3
This course provides an interdisciplinary approach for examining public (federal, state, and local governments) and non-profit budget processes. Students will examine how federal, state, and local governments get and spend money. Special emphasis is placed on the benefits and challenges of implementing programs and services using federal, state, and local government funding. Through lecture, discussions, and course assignments students obtain hands-on experience preparing, managing, evaluating capitol and programmatic budgets (e. g. , reviewing and analyzing federal, state and non-profit budgets, program reports, and audits). Students assess the struggle between various branches of government, political rules, revenue legislation, and appropriations legislation to understand, recognize, and forecast funding trends