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Graduate Certificates

The Center for Multidisciplinary Studies currently offers three graduate level certificates. Please note, only the Project Management certificate will be available beginning Fall 2013. If you have any questions, please contact our office:

  • Project Management
  • Project Management - Semester version

Project Management

A project is like a machine. In order to be successful, it needs to be well-oiled, maintained, and correctly assembled in order for it to perform up to its potential. Just as a mechanic meticulously tweaks and supervises the construction of a machine, a Project Manager must take this same approach when challenged with a project. From initiation to termination, a project must be well-oiled & managed in the areas of organization, control, personnel, and time-management. Without success in these crucial areas a project, like a machine, will falter. Encountering the challenges of cultural and social differences, along with dealing with an assortment of industrial focuses, the Project Manager must be aware of his or her goals of a project on a daily and even hourly basis. This certificate will give you the background that you need to become an effective project manager.

Core Courses

  • 3081-710 Project Management
  • 3081-711 Advanced Project Management
  • 3088-712 International Project Management

Electives

  • Approved Elective
  • Approved Elective
Project Management - Beginning Fall 2013

A project is like a machine. In order to be successful, it needs to be well-oiled, maintained, and correctly assembled in order for it to perform up to its potential. Just as a mechanic meticulously tweaks and supervises the construction of a machine, a Project Manager must take this same approach when challenged with a project. From initiation to termination, a project must be well-oiled & managed in the areas of organization, control, personnel, and time-management. Without success in these crucial areas a project, like a machine, will falter. Encountering the challenges of cultural and social differences, along with dealing with an assortment of industrial focuses, the Project Manager must be aware of his or her goals of a project on a daily and even hourly basis. This certificate will give you the background that you need to become an effective project manager.

Core Courses

  • BUSI-710 Project Management
  • BUSI-711 Advanced Project Management
  • BUSI-712 International Project Management
Electives - Ideally, one of the electives should deal with management and leadership of people in an organization. Choose two from the following list.
 
  • ACCT-703 Accounting for Decision Makers
  • ACCT-704 Corporate Financial Reporting I
  • ACCT-705 Corporate Financial Reporting II
  • ACCT-706 Cost Management
  • BLEG-745 Legal and Ethical Issues in Tech Environ
  • CQAS-682 Lean Six Sigma Fundamentals
  • DECS-743 Ops & Supply Chain Management
  • DECS-745 Quality Control and Improvement
  • DECS-782 Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers
  • ESCB-705 Economics and Decision Modeling
  • FINC-721 Financial Analysis for Managers
  • HLTH-735 Risk Management
  • HLTH-710 Governance of Health Care, Law, Policy and Economics
  • HRDE-731 Team Process and Facilitation Skills
  • HRDE-720 Theory of Organizational Development
  • HRDE-750 Theories of Career Development
  • HRDE-722 Talent Development
  • ISEE-703 Supply Chain Management
  • ISEE-723 Global Facilities
  • ISEE-752 Decision Analysis
  • ISEE-786 Lifecycle Assessment
  • ISTE-762 Software Economics
  • MCET-670 Critical Parameter Management
  • MFET-655 Electronic Packaging Fundamentals
  • MGIS-715 Info Tech & Global Environment
  • MGIS-725 Data Management
  • MGMT-710 Managing Environmental Sustainability
  • MGMT-720 Entrepreneurship
  • MGMT-740 Organizational Change and Leadership
  • MGMT-741 Managing Organizational Change
  • MGMT-742 Technology Management
  • MGMT-745 Social & Political Environment Business
  • MGMT-755 Negotiations
  • MGMT-756 Power & Influence
  • MGMT-762 Managing New Process & Prod Dev
  • MGMT-775 Business Ethics
  • PUBL-709 Public Administration and Management
  • SERQ-710 Elements of Service Management
  • SERQ-722 Customer Centricity
  • SERQ-770 Breakthrough Thinking: Creativity and Innovation
  • SERQ-723 Service Analytics
  • TCET-720 Telecom Concepts
  • TCET-730 Telecom Policy & Issues
  • TCOM-621 Creating Technical Proposals

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