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Online Education

Many RIT academic programs are now only as far away as your home or office computer. In addition to several certificates, the bachelor, associate, and masters degrees offered by Center for Multidisciplinary Studies can all be completed entirely online. Please contact a CMS advisor for more details. RIT offers close to 300 unique online courses for undergraduate and graduate students around the world to choose from. The Distance Learning website has answers to frequently asked questions about online learning.

Some of the benefits of taking an online class are that you will be able to:

  • Update your skills with virtually no interruption to your career or personal commitments.
  • Take advantage of the flexible format to tailor a program to your individual needs or schedule.
  • Put your new knowledge to work at your company while you learn.
  • Study where you’re most comfortable and when you’re most productive.
  • Become part of an electronic community of learners and meet students studying around the world.
  • Work with interactive technology that offers threaded discussions and real-time chat sessions to enhance your learning experience.
  • Access extensive technical support and academic advising.
  • Purchase your course materials and textbooks online without leaving your home or office.
  • Receive a quality education, and complete a certificate or degree program without ever setting foot on campus.

List of Sample Online Concentrations:

Health Systems Administration

Health care is a dramatically changing field. This concentration helps you prepare or keep pace with an overview of the development, structure and current forces transforming the field. This sequence, which can be taken as a certificate program, prepares you for health care management opportunities and further develops your skills as a professional.

Course Number Course Title
HLTH-300 Health Care Systems & Operations
HLTH-310 Health Care Quality
HLTH-320 Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration
HLTH-330 Health Planning and Program Development

International Logistics & Transportation

Professionals in the logistics field need the tools and knowledge to successfully build international supply chains; finesse sourcing and material purchases in a global market; balance worldwide production schedules; deliver on just-in-time, customized demands; and optimize real-time control of their inventory and assets.

Course Number Course Title
3081-451 Introduction to Logistics & Transportation
3081-525 Strategic Logistics Management
3081-526 Logistics Law & Economics
  Two Business Electives (with advisor approval)

Organizational Change

Profound and ongoing changes are taking place in organizations and individuals need to be flexible and proactive in response to these changes. This concentration will help students understand corporate culture and develop skills necessary to manage organizational and individual change. Through the study of leadership, corporate culture, change management, organizational behavior, and teams, individuals will understand and obtain the skills necessary to proactively manage change.

Course Number Course Title
CMDS-205 Practicing and Assessing Personal Leadership Skills
CMDS-233 Teams and Team Development
CMDS-335 Global Forces and Trends
CMDS-362 High Performance Leadership
CMDS-441 Creative Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
CMDS-442 Learning Organization
CMDS-461 Leading in a Global Environment

Project Management/Business

Project managers strive to deliver on-time and within budget projects that, most importantly, meet their clients' expectations. To do this, a project must be well organized and understood from its initial phase through termination. Inevitably, each stage has the potential to threaten a successful outcome. Cultural differences, varying working styles, and changing deadlines are just some of the risks that any Project Manager can encounter. Yet, with the right knowledge and skills, a Project Manager will overcome these risks and generate successful project results.

Course Number Course Title
BUSI-410 Introduction to Project Management
BUSI-411 Advanced Project Management
BUSI-412 International Project Management
BUSI-221 New Venture Development
  (At least) Two Business Electives (with advisor approval)

Quality Management

The objective is to equip students with state-of-the-art tools and skills necessary to function as quality professionals in a variety of settings. Students completing this program will be well-positioned to work as quality team leaders, trainers, facilitators, and managers in a variety of organizational levels and settings. The certificate is four courses, each four credits.

Course Number Course Title
QLTM-310 Introduction to Quality
QLTM-340 Quality Data Analysis
QLTM-410 Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
QLTM-420 Statistical Quality Tools
QLTM-430 Management for Quality
QLTM-480 Introduction to Asset Management

Technical Communication

As the technology sector grows, so does the need for communicators who can skillfully communicate many kinds of information to wide and varied audiences. This sequence of courses will give you a solid foundation for entering or advancing in this field. Courses can also be taken toward completion of a certificate. Students are expected to have a command of standard written English prose before beginning this concentration.

Course Number Course Title
TCOM-320 Professional Presentations
TCOM-333 Technical Writing & Editing
TCOM-361 Research Techniques
TCOM-414 Proposal Writing
TCOM-444 Science Writing
TCOM-476 Instructional Design Techniques
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