cd ~/syllabi && ls

Syllabi

LaTeX-formatted syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses in public administration and public policy at Cal State Fullerton, with current PDFs, source files, and reusable syllabus patterns.

# on deck for fall 2026

POSC 459 syllabus POSC 521 syllabus

~/syllabi/fall-2026.toml

[dadams@titan syllabi]$ cat fall-2026.toml

[term]

name: "Fall 2026"
dates: "Aug 24 – Dec 18, 2026"

[posc459]

title: "Social Welfare Politics and Policy"
meets: "Mon/Wed 1:00–2:15 p.m., in person"
texts: ["Howard (2007)", "Campbell (2014)", "Desmond (2023)"]

[posc521]

title: "Public Administration Theory (MPA capstone)"
meets: "Mondays 7:00–9:45 p.m., hybrid, GH 204"
texts: ["Denhardt & Denhardt", "Lipsky", "Balfour et al.", "Pahlka"]

ls ~/syllabi | grep -i ""

Catalog

Undergraduate [4]

fall 2026current

POSC 459: Social Welfare Politics and Policy

American social policy (welfare, Social Security, health care) and the politics around it: origins, implementation, and reform.

In person, Mon/Wed · graduate extension track · PapyrusAI-supported writing

summer 2026

POSC 315: Introduction to Public Policy

Federal domestic policymaking and the institutions, media, parties, and pressure groups that shape it.

Fully asynchronous online

summer 2026

CRJU/POSC 320: Introduction to Public Administration

Current problems in public agencies: organizational behavior, budgeting, personnel, planning, and policymaking.

Summer Session B · fully asynchronous online

spring 2027

POSC 427: Metropolitan Governance and Policymaking

How fragmented metropolitan regions govern shared problems: intergovernmental relations, regional coordination, and collective action across jurisdictions.

Spring 2027 syllabus · Summer 2026 independent-study pilot

Graduate (MPA) [3]

fall 2026current

POSC 521: Public Administration Theory (MPA Capstone)

The MPA capstone seminar: concepts, models, and ideologies of public administration within the larger political system.

Hybrid Monday seminar · includes the MPA comprehensive area exam

spring 2026

POSC 509: Foundations of Public Administration

Graduate introduction to the field: its history, legal and political environment, organization theory, decision-making, and performance evaluation.

In person, Tuesday evenings

spring 2026

POSC 588: Collaborative Governance

Federalism, intergovernmental relations, public-private partnerships, contract management, and network governance.

In person, Tuesday evenings · three asynchronous work weeks

cat HOWTO.md

Reuse a syllabus

Course folders keep term-specific LaTeX source files alongside compiled PDFs. Most recent syllabi build on the CSUF syllabus template, which is set up for accessible PDF output.

dadams-AU/syllabi This repository Every course folder, source file, and PDF. dadams-AU/csuf-syllabus CSUF MPA syllabus template The upstream LaTeX template, set up for tagged, accessible PDFs.

~/syllabi — bash

Browse an existing course folder for a recent term.

$ ls "POSC 521 MPA Capstone"
Copy the closest syllabus source into a new term folder.

$ cp -r "POSC 521 MPA Capstone/2026-27 Fall" "POSC 521 MPA Capstone/2026-27 Spring"
Update course details, instructor information, schedule, policies, and readings.

$ cd "POSC 521 MPA Capstone/2026-27 Spring" && $EDITOR *.tex
Compile with LuaLaTeX so the PDF comes out tagged.

$ lualatex posc521_2026_fall.tex

head -n 2 LICENSE && finger dadams

License & contact

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You may share and adapt with attribution, no commercial use, and share alike. See the LICENSE for details, or the license deed at Creative Commons.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome in issues; direct PRs are not currently accepted.

finger dadams

[dadams@titan ~]$ finger dadams

Name: David P. Adams, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Public Administration
Org: California State University, Fullerton
Mail: dpadams@fullerton.edu
Web: dadams.io