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  • 3.00 Credits

    Successful projects depend partly on building open and trusting relationships among the parties involved. This course focuses on contractual relationships on projects from both the vendor and customer perspectives with an emphasis on contract law, regulations and negotiations. Participants will study vendor selection, qualification, contract modification and completion. They will concentrate on customer and vendor involvement, terms of payment, measurements, changes and contract modification.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Quality management, quality concepts, and maturity models are key to understanding and managing quality projects and producing quality project outcomes. In this course the participants will learn about the project quality processes (planning, assurance and control), the background and importance of quality, and the current techniques and tools to create quality deliverables (including measurement, variation, statistical process control and control charts, benchmarking, cause and effect diagrams, continuous improvement cycle, and others). Application of this knowledge will be pertinent to continual process improvement, maturity models of processes and systems, and project deliverables.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Client, customer, and stakeholder satisfaction are keys to a successful project. This course emphasizes creating and sustaining a client focus, including techniques for promoting and maintaining client participation; marketing to clients; client and prospective client relations; training; and client presentation and selling skills. Particular emphasis will be placed on identifying the real clients, customers, and stakeholders and identifying their actual needs and wants. The course will also stress the importance of maintaining an awareness of the customers central role during every phase of a project.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Project managers are, by their very nature, change agents who live in a world of ever advancing technology. This course explores the process of change, including: invention and innovation; diffusion; change provocation; and change adoption. Participants will examine the necessity of accepting ambiguity and building in flexibility to allow for the unexpected. They will also learn how to implement damage control in the event that change moves too rapidly.
  • 3.00 Credits

    PM 514 is the capstone course for the MS in Project Management (MSPM) degree program. It is intended to capture key elements of project management learning and knowledge developed in the MSPM program courses. It is designed as a project execution simulation with phases and situations encountered in executing a typical project. Students are given an opportunity to apply knowledge, tools, and skills developed in the balance of the MSPM program to a sample project. In addition, there is a final exam which tests students on the MSPM program outcomes not covered in the sample project. It is required that you complete PM 510, PM 511, PM 512, and PM 513 before enrolling in PM 514. Any exceptions must have special permission from the Project Management Program Director.
  • 2.00 Credits

    The Masters Thesis or Research Project: Topic and Proposal should demonstrate your mastery of scholarship as well as applied knowledge in your chosen field. The topic choice and proposal process in preparation for thesis data analysis, collection, and report of findings should demonstrate your ability to effectively select a topic and create a research proposal through independent scholarly investigations. This thesis topic and proposal process will require you to use the research sources of your chosen field to prepare for gathering and analyzing data for your masters thesis completion in PM 601. The Masters Thesis or Research Project: Topic and Proposal process should demonstrate the skillful, knowledgeable application of the concepts and strategies relevant to thesis preparation, specifically the problem definition, literature review, research approach, and writing of the proposal. There are two crucial skills for project managers to have: 1. Identifying and writing a concise description of the reason a project is needed; 2. Writing a concise factual proposal which will sell the project to prospective stakeholders. This course is designed to provide experience with the research tools and practice needed for students to be effective written communicators using each of these types of writing.
  • 1.00 Credits

    The Masters Thesis should demonstrate your mastery of scholarship or applied knowledge in your chosen field. The thesis should demonstrate your ability to conduct and report independent scholarly investigations. The thesis will require you to use the research sources of your chosen field to gather and analyze data and to then state reasonable, reliable, valid conclusions based upon the data and your analysis. In addition, the thesis should demonstrate the skillful, knowledgeable application of the concepts and strategies you have learned throughout the Project Management program.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Graduate Internship:Project Management
  • 5.00 Credits

    This course examines the field of psychology from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Topics include: the physiological basis of mental functioning; the physical, cognitive and social aspects of lifespan development; learning, memory, and cognition; psychological disorders; emotions and health; thinking and language; intelligence and motivation; perception and sensation; and the various theories of personality.
  • 5.00 Credits

    An investigation into the biological, social, and psychological forces that shape the various stages of our lives. The course also examines patterns of difference due to factors such as gender, culture, disability, and socioeconomic status.
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