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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
The purpose of this weekend seminar is to strengthen the project leader's communication skills, change-management skills, conflict resolutions skills, and team evaluation skills. Focus areas will also include the following: understanding the art and science of effective listening, managing multiple expectations, communicating "bad news," and learning tools and techniques forproject team evaluation. Prerequisites: PMGT 401, PMGT 402, PMGT 403, PMGT 404
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2.00 Credits
Students will learn techniques and processes to start and perform the actual project work. Suggestions for working successfully in a matrix management environment will be discussed. Information systems to track schedule performance, labor charges and project expenditures will be expressed. Developing escalation procedures to address project conflicts issues will be emphasized. Procedures for controlling labor and fund charges to a project will be introduced. Key project review and decision meetings will be identified. Planning and implementing quality assurance activities will be addressed. Planning for, awarding and administering contracts will be discussed. How to support these activities using MS Project will be demonstrated. Prerequisites: PMGT 401, PMGT 402, PMGT 403, PMGT 404, PMGT 405
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2.00 Credits
Students will learn how to monitor and control project activities in progress and how to bring a project to closure. Approaches for assessing project products and services produced will be explored. Techniques for evaluating schedule and cost performance will be introduced. Variance analysis and earned value analysis will be explained. Quality control and risk monitoring and control will be discussed. Change control systems and procedures will be explained. How to prepare focused progress reports and conduct effective project meetings will be discussed. Requirements for closing out contracts and procurements will be detailed. Obtaining user acceptance, closing labor and fund charge accounts and other administrative activities will be discussed. Designing and conducting a post-project review will be explored. How to support these activities using MS Project will be demonstrated. Prerequisites: PMGT 401, PMGT 402, PMGT 403, PMGT 404, PMGT 405, PMGT 406
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1.00 Credits
This 2-day seminar focuses on developing problem solving and ethical decision-making skills. Students will learn to recognize project problems, frame the problem, assess risk, manage risk, plan contingencies, recognize the escalation points, and apply alternate methods. Students will also participate in ethical exercises to strengthen their ability to recognize ethical dilemmas and evaluate decisions. Prerequisites: PMGT 401, PMGT 402, PMGT 403, PMGT 404, PMGT 405, PMGT 406, PMGT 407
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4.00 Credits
Constitutional principles; organization and operation of the national government; and dynamics of power within the U.S. political system. (SS)
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4.00 Credits
A critical examination of political ideologies: Liberalism, Marxism, Fascism, and Islamism. Matthews (ND)
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4.00 Credits
Important political thinkers from the pre-Socratics to early, modern political theorists like Machiavelli. Matthews (SS)
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4.00 Credits
Begins where POLS 101 ends: from early, modern theorists (e.g., Hobbes) up to contemporary thinkers (e.g., Marcuse). Matthews (SS)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to political sociology through an examination of the major sociological questions concerning power, politics, and the state. Covers historical questions concerning state formation, nationalism, social movements, globalization, political culture and participation, and civil society. Includes examples such as racism, welfare reform, campaign financing, coal mining in Appalachia, revolution in Latin America, and the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, and the place of the United States in a global society. Munson (SS)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the ethical perspectives and values that shape human relationships to the natural environment in contemporary society. What are the moral implications of these relationships for justice and human collective action Given these implications, what policy responses to environmental problems are morally or politically justifiable In answering these questions, the course explores ethical ideas developed in different schools of environmental thought, such as deep ecology and ecofeminism, in addition to ideas that emerge from social movements, such as environmental justice and bioregionalism. Holland (SS)
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