Project Management Certificate (Undergraduate)

3 Credits

This course examines project management roles and environments, the project life cycle, and various techniques of work planning, and control and evaluation to achieve project objectives. The tools currently available to project managers are illustrated in this course through the use of Microsoft® Project software.

3 Credits

This course introduces students to the planning phase of project management. Students will discover the connection between strategic portfolio management and project management. Other topics include project-based versus non-project-based organizations, activity planning and sequencing, human resource planning, communications planning, and project management planning.

3 Credits

This course explores the procurement planning process, contracting methods and phases, outsourcing, contract administration, and the external environment of the procurement management processes. The course also addresses risk management applied to both project and procurement management processes.

3 Credits

To be successful, project managers must analyze alternative project decisions by relying heavily on project estimating and control tools and techniques. This course provides students with the skills required to plan, baseline, monitor, analyze, and evaluate project performance. Students work in groups to analyze program parameters and work situations.

3 Credits

This course examines the various project management methodologies used to successfully manage projects within an organization. Students will discover effective and efficient practices of applied project management techniques to include waterfall, PRINCE2®, agile, six sigma, and Kanban methods. Students will also examine the influence of project type on the methodology used to effectively manage the project.

3 Credits

This course is the capstone of the Professional Certificate in Project Management. Students will demonstrate project management knowledge learned throughout the Project Management Certificate. Students will develop and deliver a project plan and presentation of that plan to the executive board in a role-play environment. Universal project management concepts and processes studied in the prior five courses will be integrated and applied to the class project.