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Presentations
All students from the main campus class will have the
opportunity to make in-class presentations based on their reading of the
classic writers of public administration theory. The students from the UNM Branch campuses will not have this
opportunity to make presentations to the whole class due to the fact that
the technological capacity still has not been completed in order to make
this possible.
The purpose of the presentation is
to give each student an opportunity to report on one of articles drawn from
the course textbook that the student finds particularly significant, either
for the purposes of general theory or for the purpose of the student’s own
professional development. It would
be useful to consult the instructor in advance about the choice of
presentation theme. In some cases,
the student may want to select a theme from one or some sample of articles
and present on the theme rather than on the subject of the articles
themselves. For example, the
student may want to make a presentation on the importance of cultural
differences for administrative practice.
In this case, the student may draw upon some of the insights from
the classic articles but may also drawn upon his or her personal
experience. If the student selects
this approach, it would also be useful to consult in advance with the
instructor.
The in-class presentations will be
relatively brief. The presentation
would typically consist of about a 10-15 minute statement of the theme, the
general propositions or theses of the theme, the importance of these
considerations for public administration today and, finally, the importance
of these insights for the professional development of the student. Each presentation will then be followed
by a question period of about 10-15 minutes.
The presentations will take place
on Monday February 27th, Tuesday February 28th, and Monday
March 6th. The order of the presentations will be
negotiated in class.
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