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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the broad range of issues and skills that are crucial to cross-cultural interaction encountered by business managers in a global business economy. It prepares students to identify the issues associated with managing and valuing diversity within a domestic context, as well as dealing with issues of international diversity. In addition, the course deals with such issues as the increasing multiethnic composition of the North American labor force, ways in which gender differences impact on communication styles and patterns, and the influence of religious beliefs, cultures, and philosophies upon human behaviors and customs at home and abroad.
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3.00 Credits
This is an overview of the characteristics and techniques of effective group interaction and leadership. Topics will include stages of group development, emerging roles, status/power, conflict, hosting effective meetings, and problem-solving techniques. Students will work in groups on a shared task.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the fundamental tools and concepts of project management, offering them the techniques of strategic project planning and of linking projects to overall organizational strategies. The course also emphasizes early scheduling and estimating, writing project specifications, communicating effectively during projects, and prioritizing activities. This gives students an understanding of the elements that are essential to project success even before the first project team meeting.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students learn to apply the tools and techniques used in managing projects in organizations. Students learn to plan, organize, staff, lead, and control projects. The course emphasizes those activities that are essential to ensuring project success, including preparing the project network plan, assessing project risks, managing project resources, and maintaining a project's critical path. Combining theory and application, students are required to solve common project management issues.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students learn how to monitor and manage a project's progress, deal with risks and challenges, and manage project resources. They use basic project management concepts and techniques to determine whether and how the project can be implemented, including the development of a baseline plan for project closure.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students learn techniques for developing project cost estimates, as well as capital, project, and cash flow budgets. Students establish systems and procedures to monitor actual costs and assess project risks and strategies to mitigate those risks. They also deal with project partnering and vendor relationships, including performance incentives.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with strategies and techniques to create, staff, lead, and negotiate solutions to conflicts which may arise in project teams. The course addresses how a project leader creates plans, selects team members, organizes tasks, exerts leadership, and resolves conflict. It provides team leaders with techniques to run effective meetings, guide a team through continuous improvement processes, and diagnose the stages of team development and common group problems.
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3.00 Credits
In this final course in the Project Management Certificate program, students will integrate and apply the theories, techniques, and tools they have learned in previous courses in the completion of a project plan. The ability to manage projects effectively and efficiently will be demonstrated as students establish goals and objectives, create checkpoints, develop budgets and time estimates, organize a communication structure, and apply team leadership and problem-solving skills which move the project productively towards successful closure.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a foundation in technology use. Included will be an introduction to fundamental computer concepts and file management basics. Hands-on application of word processing, spreadsheets and charts, and presentation software will be emphasized. The effective and ethical use of the Internet as an information resource will be considered. Searching techniques applicable to library online catalogs, electronic databases and the Internet will be examined. Students will also explore the use of word processing software to produce a paper in APA and/or MLA format.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of current computer technologies and trends, this course is meant for computer science majors and others who wish to understand more about the technology they use in their everyday lives. This course will cover the history of computers and computing and the current state of technology, including hardware, software and programming, and local network, Internet work and the Web. This is required for all computer science majors.
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