Public administrators face many policy issues today including social justice concerns, policy development and navigating through political and demographic shifts. In this course students will learn how to develop responses to public problems through policy making. Students will discuss challenges presented by a changing social and cultural environment such as cultural, racial, gender and value-related, financial, technological, institutional, and operational issues in which public organizations operate. This course will also provide students with the tools necessary to adapt public administration by taking a dynamic, pervasive, and proactive approach towards public policy that promote organizational goals and community centered programming around critical issues.