THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS BULLETIN No. 3527: July 15, 1935 TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE Announcing The Master of Arts Degree ID Public Adm;nistration ·-i '\ PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY FOUR TIMES A MONTH AND ENTERED AS SECOND·CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE A NEW MASTER'S DEGREE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION In September 1935 the Graduate School of The University of Texas offers a new program for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of Public Administration. The purpose of this degree is to give a unified program of training in the different fields that may prove helpful to college graduates who wish further training in preparation for public service. The adoption of merit principles in part of the federal service in 1883 was evidence of a reaction against patronage in public service. The civil reform movement, inaugurated at that time, has carried over to ten states and some 450 cities, which have renounced patron­age and have provided for the recruitment, promotion, pay, discipline, and retirement of public officials on the basis of their merits. The merit system has been advancing for many years, and there are signs which indicate the wider application of this principle in the filling of many public positions. Among some indications of increasing attention to this procedure is the work of the Com­mission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel, which has published a series of monographs in the field of personnel administration. Another hopeful sign is the interest which has been taken in recent years in the problem of training for the public service by the great universities of the country. Among the institutions making pro­vision for training in public administration are the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and Syracuse University. These universities have graduated many men and women into government work in the last decade. The University of Texas recognizes this movement and offers its facilities for the training of future public administrative officials. For years this institution has offered courses relating to various aspects of the organization and operation of our several govern­ments. Not until the spring of 1935, however, was the decision made to correlate the courses offered in a definite program of training for the public service. The program is given at the level of the first year of graduate work. Completion of the year's training period, if properly planned, will lead to the Master of Arts degree in Public Administration. The new degree will rest largely upon work offered by the Eco­nomics, Government, and Sociology departments. Other departments and schools which will contribute materially to the plan are Business Administration, Education, Law, and Psychology. The courses on which the program will rest are for the most part those already given in the fields named, though the Department of Government will offer four new courses in public administration. -2­ These courses will be grouped under four major heads, namely, Publ;c Welfare Administration, Financial Administration, Admin­istrative Organization and Operation, and Police Administration, in any one of which the student may elect to concentrate. A feature of the new degree will be the fact that it minimizes departmental lines, emphasizing the nature of the subject rather than the depart­ment or school in which it may be taught. Any person who holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Texas may begin work toward the Master of Arts degree in Public Administration. Students from other institutions who hold an equivalent degree may seek the new graduate degree, subject to the approval of their undergraduate work by the Registrar or the University. The undergraduate work of each candidate must include a major in economics, government, or sociology, or it must include twelve semester hours of the courses listed below. Those seeking the new degree are under the general supervision of the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School. Any person interested in the new program of training may obtain information about it either from the Registrar or from the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of The University of Texas. The program of each candidate for the degree of Master of Arts in Public Administration must be selected from the following courses according to the official rules in the Catalogue. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 222. Office Management. Miss Stullken. 328. Managerial Uses of Accounting. Mr. Lay. 329. Cost Accounting, First Course. Mr. Newlove. 330. Governmental Accounting. Mr. C. A. Smith. 420. Business Correspondence. Mr. Boyd. EcoNOMICS 321. Public Finance. Mr. Miller. 329. Economic and Social Statistics. 334. The Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living. Miss Allen. 349. Labor Legislation. Miss Allen. 360. Public Utility Eco­nomics. Mr. Montgomery. 361. Problems in Public Finance. Mr. Miller. 363. The Social Control of Business. Mr. Stocking. 80. Research Course. 98. M.A. Thesis Course. EDUCATION 355. Mental and Educational Measurement. Mr. Manuel. GOVERNMENT 321. American State Government. 322. American State Ad­ministration. Mr. Burdine. -3­ 325. Political Parties. 326. Legislation. Mr. Weeks. 34. American National Government and Administration. Mr. Patterson. 345. Municipal Government. 346. Municipal Administration. Mr. Martin. 348, 349. Government Regulation of Industry. Mr. Redford. 350. City Management. 351. Police Administration. Mr. Martin. 353. County Government. 354. Comparative European Admin­istration. Mr. Burdine. 81. Problems in State Government and Comparative European Administration. Mr. Burdine. 83. Problems in American National Administration and Consti­tutional Law. Mr. Patterson. 88. Problems in Law and Administration Arising in the Regula­tion of Business. Mr. Redford. 89. Problems in Municipal Government and Administration. Mr. Martin. 98. M.A. Thesis Course. LAW 323. Criminal Law. Mr. Stumberg. 361. Administrative Law. Mr. Stayton. 390K. Public Utilities. Mr. Bailey. 394. Municipal Corpora­tions. Mr. Crane. PHYSICS 223. Photography. Mr. Kuehne. PSYCHOLOGY 332. Physiological Psychology. Mr. Jeffress. 351. Social Psychology. 352. Abnormal Psychology. Mr. Perrin. SOCIOLOGY 345, 346. The Community: A Study of Rural and Urban Life. Mr. Gettys. 348. Criminology. 350. Child Welfare. Mr. Rosenquist. 363. Public Welfare. Mr. Gettys. 360. Human Ecology. 364. Social Attitudes. 366. Social Control. Mr. Gettys. 378. The Family. Mr. Gettys. 98. M.A. Thesis Course. The courses listed above, when taken according to the new rules for the degree of Master of Arts (in Public Administration), make the resources of the University available for the professional training of educated persons who wish to enter public service. Thus the Graduate School of The University of Texas enlarges its advanced work in social studies to meet new practical demands in addition to the needs it has served in the past. A. P. BROGAN, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School. -4­