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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.

In these days of rightsizing, reengineering, restructuring, virtual organizing and lifelong learning, knowing how to change and continually renew your organization, design new work patterns and structures, and enable your employees and colleagues to meet competitive challenges is more important than ever before.

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.

This program is ideal for managers who are being promoted from within their organizations. These courses are designed to provide managers or aspiring managers with a theoretical framework for decision-making and supervision. This certificate will help to fill-in gaps in an individual's knowledge base while capitalizing on the results of a student's practical, experiential learning.

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.

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.

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.

The concentration in small business management is designed for enterprising individuals who want to launch a new venture or improve an existing small business. It is especially appropriate for entrepreneurs, members of family-owned businesses and key employees in companies with sales under $2 million. The three courses in the program are tightly integrated, to provide a solid foundation in managing, marketing and financing small businesses. The faculty include academically qualified entrepreneurs who have managed their own small companies. Courses may count as business electives in degree programs, may serve as foundation courses for the management diploma and may be taken out of sequence.

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.