The Askew School offers graduate certificate programs for students who wish to gain greater knowledge but are not seeking a degree. The certificates are not required in our degree programs but they may be taken by students in our degree programs in order to pursue these specific areas further. Our certificates offer opportunities to obtain advanced knowledge in the following areas: public financial management, emergency management, and local government management. The certificates are issued directly by the School.

• Public Administration (18 credits)

• Public Financial Management (18 credits)

• Emergency Management (15 credits)

• Florida City and County Management (12 credits)

Admission to the graduate school is not required. Students may obtain the graduate certificates as "special students," those with bachelor degrees who take graduate courses without seeking to be admitted to graduate standing.

Some students who do not qualify for regular admission to the graduate school take courses as special students to demonstrate their ability to do graduate work. Success as a special student cannot guarantee subsequent admission as the School is limited in the number of students it can admit who do not fully qualify for regular admission. Special students may transfer 12 semester hours of credits earned as a special student toward a graduate degree.

General Public Administration Certificate
(18 credits)

This certificate is an executive development program. It is designed for students who hold a bachelors degree, and possibly a graduate degree in another field, who want to study some aspects of our field but not pursue an MPA degree. Three courses (9 hours) must be from the MPA core courses. The other courses may be chosen from any offerings of the school and one course may be taken from outside the school, if approved.

Certificate in Public Financial Management
(18 credits)

Topics covered in this program conform to those recommended by the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management of the American Society for Public Administration. Topics include budgeting, some basics of government accounting and auditing, financial management, financial decision making, and public finance.

Core Courses
PAD 5227 Managing Financial Resources
PAD 6207 Financial Resources Administration
PAD 6226 Budgeting Simulation and Issues

Related Electives (other courses may be approved on request)

PAD 5041 Public Service Ethics
PAD 5327 Public Program Evaluation
PAD 5859 Managing Public Procurement
PAD 5xxx Health Care Finance (temporarily offered as PAD5935)

COM 5450 Introduction to Project Management (or)
ISM 5315 Project Management (& more advanced project management courses)

ACG 5505 Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting and Auditing
Prerequisite: ACG 4201.
ECO 5505 Public Finance
EDH 6505 Finance in Higher Education
URP 5540 State and Local Economic Development
URP 5731 The Planning of Community Infrastructure
URP 5540 State and Local Economic Development
SOW 5376 Budgeting and Finances in Social Services
SOW 5455 Grant Writing and Grant Management

Certificate in Emergency Management
(15 credits)

This program includes skills and knowledge appropriate for practicing managers and all those interested in emergency management training.

Core Courses

PAD 5397 Foundations of Emergency Management
PAD 5398 Emergency Management Programs, Planning and Policy

Elective Courses

PAD 5376 Intro to Terrorism*
PAD 5377 Advanced Topics in Terrorism (pre-req: Intro to Terrorism)
PAD 5935 Public Health and Emergency Management
PAD 5935 Emergency Management Leadership & Communications
GEO 5345 Disaster Preparedness and Hazards Mitigation
GEO 5146 Geographic Information Processing & Systems
GLY 5886 Geologic Hazards Assessment
URP 5429 Planning for and Mitigating Global Climate Change
PAD 5935 Disaster Systems
PAD 5935 International Comparative Emergency Management
PAD5935 Homeland Security
PAD5935 Disaster Dollars; The Financing of EM Recovery

For more information regarding the Certificate in Emergency Management, please visit the EM Academic Program website at: http://em.fsu.edu/

Certificate in Florida City and County Management
(12 credits)

The Askew School is proud to have been selected by the Florida City and County Management Association and other local government associations to be host of the Center for Florida Local Government Excellence. In doing this we offer the Certificate in Florida City and County Management to students across the state. Completing the following four courses will qualify for receipt of the certificate:

PAD 5xxx Local Government Administration
[temporarily being taught as PAD 5 935]
PAD 5826 Intergovernmental Management and Relations
PAD 6136 Seminar in Management Studies in Government
PAD 6300 Governmental Administration in Florida

For more information regarding the Certificate in Florida City and County Management, please visit the Center for Florida Local Government Excellence (CFLGE) website at http://www.cflge.org/program

 

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