Master of Public Administration

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MPA Concentrations

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Registration Information for MPA Courses

Summer 2013 Registration Information

Summer 2013 MPA elective courses are part of the 2012-13 academic year and can be found via the MPA Course Information page.

Summer is an optional quarter for MPA students, so we do not offer Core or concentration courses. We offer elective courses and, for continuing students, opportunities to work with available faculty on individual study and internship contracts.

Monday, June 24th is the first day of Summer Quarter 2013. Web registration for Summer 2013 for continuing admitted MPA students begins on Monday, May 20 (week 8 of Winter quarter). Check your MyEvergreen account for your specific Time Ticket.

For detailed Summer quarter information, including tuition and timelines, go to the Evergreen Summer 2013 page.

Summer MPA elective courses are part of the 2012-13 academic year and can be found in the MPA 2012-13 catalog course info link; just scroll down to the “Electives” category and it’s the last group of courses (they all have a green bar in the far right hand column): http://www.evergreen.edu/catalog/2012-13/mpa/

Continuing MPA students may register for Summer quarter on the Web beginning Monday, May 20 at 8 am. Continuing MPA students may complete up to 12 credits per quarter without the MPA Director’s approval.

New students admitted to the MPA program for Fall 2013 and students not admitted to the college (“special students”) may register for Summer courses as Special Students beginning Tuesday, May 28. Register by mail, by fax (to 360.867.6680) or in person using the Special Student Summer Registration Form

Note that course registration priority is generally given to continuing students. For more information regarding Special Student registration, go to the Special Student Guide. For info about summer statistics courses that meet the MPA prerequisite requirement, go to our statistics prerequisite guide.

Non-admitted students who have a bachelor’s degree are called “graduate special students” at Evergreen. Graduate special students are eligible to take MPA elective courses for graduate credit. If admitted to the MPA program, up to 12 Evergreen graduate elective credits taken as a graduate special student will count toward the MPA degree.

To obtain a course syllabus, contact the instructor at the contact information provided for the specific course in the MPA 2012-13 catalog. Some syllabi will be posted on the MPA course syllabus page.

For class locations, go to the “Class Schedule” page and click on “Summer Class Schedules”.

For more information about Summer quarter, go to the Evergreen Summer 2013 page.

MPA Faculty Accepting Summer Contracts (Internship and Individual Learning Contracts)

This option is only open to continuing students who have completed one quarter of 1st year core (for individual learning contracts) or two quarters of 1st year core (for internship learning contracts). Contact faculty directly for more information.

All summer Individual Learning and Internship Learning Contracts are due (submitted by the student and approved by sponsor and other approvals) to the MPA Director by the Friday of Week One of summer quarter June 28.

Contract process info: http://www.evergreen.edu/individualstudy/home.htm

Larry Geri (First session only)
Amy Gould (Both sessions)
Doreen Swetkis (Both sessions)
Cheryl Simrell King(Both sessions)

Fall 2013 Registration Information

Monday, September 30 is the first day of Fall Quarter 2013. Web registration for Fall 2013 for continuing admitted MPA students begins on Monday, May 20 (week 8 of Spring quarter). Check your MyEvergreen account for your specific Time Ticket.

Tuition for courses for which you are registered is due by the Friday at the end of the 1st week of the quarter: Friday October 4 at 4pm. Registered students who do not pay for courses by this deadline will be charged a late payment fee of $50. In addition, after 30 days of nonpayment, interest charges will be added, at 1% per month.

From October 7-11 (week 2 of the quarter), late registration is permitted and requires instructor approval. Normally, a late registration fee of $50 is charged, but to maximize our enrollments by Oct 11 (the 10th day of the quarter, when course enrollments are counted for funding purposes) MPA staff will waive the $50 late registration fee (via email to Registration, by student request) through October 11. Registration form.

Beginning October 14 (week 3), registration requires instructor approval, a petition to the Registrar and a $100 late fee. The form to petition for Registrar approval .

  • Continuing MPA students (in either the Public/Non-Profit Administration or Public Policy concentrations) register on the Web via their myEvergreen account by time ticket, beginning Monday, May 20. Continuing students who are currently in 1st year Core do need to register into fall 2nd year core course. Note that 8 credits is a full-time course load in MPA. MPA students may register for a maximum of 12 credits without the MPA Director's approval.
  • Newly admitted General Cohort MPA students (in either the Public/Non-Profit Administration or Public Policy concentrations) who will begin coursework in Fall 2013 register on the web via their myEvergreen account by time ticket, beginning May 20. Note that 8 credits or more is a full-time course load in MPA, which would equal your 6 credit core course, "The Context of Public Administration (General Cohort)" + 2 elective credits (or more, as you wish). MPA students may register for a maximum of 12 credits without the MPA Director's approval.
  • All Tribal Cohort MPA students register on the web via their myEvergreen account by time ticket, beginning May 20. To meet the requirements of the Tribal Governance concentration, In Fall 2013 you will register for 10 credits (a full-time course load): your 6 credit core course "Analytical Techniques I (Tribal Cohort)" + the 4 credit concentration course "Tribal Economics." MPA students may register for a maximum of 12 credits without the MPA Director's approval.
  • Non-admitted Graduate Special Students (non-admitted students who have a Bachelor’s degree) may register for open MPA electives beginning September 23 (the week before the quarter begins) with permission of the instructor OR may get on the waitlist for electives that are full from September 23-27, with permission of the instructor. Graduate Special Students may register for a maximum of 8 MPA elective credits in any quarter, and a maximum of 12 credits will “count” toward the MPA degree should they subsequently be admitted to the MPA program. Note that MPA and other graduate students have priority to register for MPA electives. To determine which courses are open, contact Jan Hays, MPA Program Assistant, beginning September 23 (the week before the quarter begins) at haysj@evergreen.edu or at 360.867.5939. At that time, for every course that has space available and is of interest to you, email a paragraph to the course instructor (and cc: Jan at haysj@evergreen.edu) asking them to give you permission to register if there is availability and describing the reasons why you are interested in that specific course and any pertinent information about your education and/or experience. To register or get on the waitlist for a course that is full:
  1. get the instructor's permission via email before the course begins;
  2. forward the email with instructor’s permission to Jan Hays, haysj@evergreen.edu. Jan will check to see if space is still available: if so, Jan will email the Evergreen Registration Office (and cc: you) to permit you to register for the course.
  3. print, complete and submit the Special Student Registration Form (SSRF) to the Evergreen Registration Office by fax (to 360.867.6680, “Attention: Elaine”), by emailed PDF form, by mail. After receiving Jan’s email with instructor’s and program permission + your faxed SSRF, Registration will email you to let you know if you are able to register or not.
  4. If the course is full and you are placed on the waitlist, if space becomes available through Friday, September 27, you will be moved into the course. After September 27, waitlists become moot, so you will no longer be automatically moved into a course from the waitlist. Should space become available in the course through the 10th day of the quarter (October 11 for fall 2013), the MPA program will notify people who were on the old waitlist and offer the space to the next person on the list.
  • Undergraduate students (juniors and seniors) may register for open MPA electives beginning September 23 (the week before the quarter begins) with permission of the instructor OR may get on the waitlist for electives that are full from September 23-27, with permission of the instructor. Note that MPA students, other grad students and Graduate Special Students have priority to register for MPA electives. To determine which courses are open, contact Jan Hays, MPA Program Assistant, September 23 (the week before the quarter begins) at haysj@evergreen.edu or at 360.867.5939. At that time, for every course that has space available and is of interest to you, email a paragraph to the course instructor (and cc: Jan at haysj@evergreen.edu) asking them to give you permission to register if there is availability and describing the reasons why you are interested in that specific course and any pertinent information about your education and/or experience, including your class standing (junior or senior). To register:
  1. get the instructor's or designee’s permission (via email before the course begins OR via signature on the form);
  2. forward the email with instructor’s permission to Jan Hays, haysj@evergreen.edu. Jan will check to see if space is still available: if so, Jan will email the Evergreen Registration Office (and cc: you) to permit you to register for the course.
  3. if space is available: print, complete and submit the Registration Form to the Evergreen Registration Office by fax (to 360.867.6680, “Attention: Elaine”), by emailed PDF form, by mail or in person.
  4. If the course is full and you placed are on the waitlist, if space becomes available through September 27, you will be moved into the course. After September 27, waitlists become moot, so you will no longer be automatically moved into a course from the waitlist. Should space become available in the course through the 10th day of the quarter (October 11 for fall 2013), the MPA program will notify people who were on the old waitlist and offer the space to the next person on the list.

For information about MPA electives and other 2013-2014 courses, go to the MPA “Course Information” page.