This foundation course examines the project management framework. This framework covers key terminology, project management context, and processes. Topics include project management knowledge areas, life cycles and organizational designs.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Apply key project management terms.
2. Analyze the environment in which projects operate.
3. Describe a generalized view of how the various project management processes commonly interact.
4. Identify project integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, and procurement management process inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs.
5. Identify life cycle phases appropriate to a project.
6. Analyze stakeholder needs and expectations.

This course examines activities related to project planning and estimating. It examines the use of various planning techniques in managing budgets, schedules, and human/material resource allocations. Planning activities associated with quality, communications, risk and procurement are addressed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Plan and estimate project scope, cost, schedule, risk and quality requirements.
2. Select appropriate activities and tools for project initiation and project integration.
3. Prepare a work breakdown structure with a linear responsibility chart.
4. Use project estimating tools including network activity diagrams, cost estimating and budgeting, activity duration and resource plans.
5. Prepare a detailed project work plan using Microsoft Project.
6. Divide complex problems into subproblems.
7. Use cost benefit measurement methods to analyze the effects of change.
8. Identify factors that create change.
9. Implement financial planning and monitoring and control techniques.

This course examines the principles and concepts essential to procuring products or services outside the project organization. Topics include procurement planning, solicitation, evaluation, selection, negotiation, and contract management. Various types of contracts used in procurement are reviewed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Determine what to procure and when.
2. Analyze product requirements.
3. Select appropriate type of contract.
4. Obtain quotations, bids, offers, or proposals from appropriate parties.
5. Determine appropriate selection process.
6. Evaluate bids against selection criteria.
7. Manage contract relationships and vendors.
8. Complete and close the contract, including resolution of any open items.
9. Conduct activities in an ethical manner.
10. Use the concept of project earned value.
     

This course focuses on the various considerations project managers must make for successful global projects. It addresses the differences between differing political climates and stages of economic development. Social and cultural differences of countries are examined for their impact on project processes.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Describe a systems approach to cultural identities.
2. Analyze the viewpoint of another culture to gain new knowledge and insights.
3. Evaluate variables in the communication process in project presentation.
4. Describe transnational differences and organizational cultures.
5. Identify various approaches to cross-cultural assessments in project management.
6. Evaluate multicultural teamwork and collaboration in project management.
7. Identify legal and government limitations on projects.
    

This course examines the various organizational designs used to effectively complete projects through people.  Topics include organizational planning, staff acquisition, team development, conflict resolution and negotiation.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify, document and assign project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
2. Develop team building activities to achieve project goals and resolve conflicts.
3. Develop strategies to recruit and retain project human resources to completion of project.
4. Use performance appraisal and staff development techniques.
5. Demonstrate, select and adapt communications styles critical to project phases.
6. Formulate significant questions that delineate the communication issues of stakeholders and team members.
7. Synthesize in a balanced manner the individual, organizational and systemic issues in conflicting situations.

This course examines various methods used to ensure the project meets the stakeholder needs for which it was undertaken, including quality planning, quality assurance and quality control.  It examines integration of project information including gathering requirements, integrating the project plan, reporting performance and project closure.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify quality standards relevant to the project.
2. Create a quality assurance plan.
3. Evaluate overall project performance.
4. Monitor specific project results against the quality standards.
5. Apply ethical considerations to project decisions.
6. Determine needs of the stakeholders
7. Develop and use tools and techniques for project communications
8. Prepare and present project information in oral and written forms
9. Locate and use information reflecting multiple sides of a question.

This course explores the basic principles and practices of risk management.  Key concepts in managing uncertainty include: developing a risk approach, identifying, analyzing, responding to and monitoring risks in projects, programs and portfolios.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Determine the tolerance for uncertainty within an organization.
2. Identify potential problems and opportunities within a project.
3. Analyze the likelihood of the risk occurring and its impact.
4. Determine appropriate responses to significant risks.
5. Monitor and control risk events during projects
6. Evaluate the traditions and practices in the field that are often accepted unquestioningly.
    

This course provides an overview of key organizational and behavioral concepts, which underlie effective management practice in private and public sector organizations around the world. Comparative management systems are examined.  Special attention is given to defining and interpreting cross-cultural differences and influences.  The course gives attention to the external and internal forces that influence organizational structure, behavior, and change.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Synthesize and build creatively on the traditional roles of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
2. Compare and contrast basic management systems and competencies.
3. Analyze challenges of organizations that operate globally.
4. Evaluate managerial literature and apply to real world problems.
5. Outline rationale for integrating corporate responsibility and social justice into the organization.
6. Use current digital technology to enhance business performance and communication.

This course focuses on statistical analysis of data for professional applications or research with an emphasis on quantitative methodologies. The course covers populations, sample selection, and descriptive and inferential statistics. Significance, Chi Square, correlations, analysis of variance and simple regression, and concepts of reliability, validity and levels of measurement are addressed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Apply statistical ideas and practicalities to real world quantitative situations within organizations.
2. Read and interpret the statistical content of literature relating to management of people and resources.
3. Analyze statistics through performing basic computation both by hand and with computer software.
4. Determine and apply the appropriate inferential analysis for different types of data and derive correct conclusions.

This course introduces, discusses and analyzes financial issues facing profit, not-for-profit and governmental organizations in today's domestic and global business environment. The course provides the general manager with an ethical financial manager's perspective through examination of various financial areas including: types of organizations; sources of capital; financial statement analysis; asset management; time value of money; international payments and foreign exchange rates; trade theory and policy; and investment in the US and in foreign countries.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify the various forms of business entities and the different ways of financing them.
2. Analyze the financial reporting requirements of the differing entities.
3. Apply the principles of managing current assets and current liabilities.
4. Assess the existence of management problems or and opportunities through analyzing of a company's financial statements and making comparisons to other companies in the same industry.
5. Compute present values and use them in financial decision making.
6. Analyze the global economy and its impact on the domestic economy.
7. Identify the impact of unethical behavior by an entity's general and financial managers on the entity and its owners.
8. Outline the mechanics and risks of operating an entity in a global marketplace.

This course examines philosophical theories and ethical practices that can be used to resolve organizational dilemmas.  The course emphasizes the role of managers to strengthen the ethical culture of the organization.  Application of ethical principles and models to deal with complex ethical issues facing domestic and global organizations is studied.  Students develop skills in values-based decision making built upon integrity and accountability.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify and assess the extent of ethical issues that face organizations, communities, and stakeholder groups.
2. Recognize how ethical theories, principles, and models provide options for examining complex ethical issues.
3. Analyze how organizational and cultural norms affect the ability of people within it to act ethically.
4. Consider value-based decision making to select options that are congruent with business.
5. Develop a framework for resolving complex ethical dilemmas.
6. Apply ethical theories, models, and principles.
    

This course introduces selected models and practices in the exploration of effective leadership, including understanding one's own leadership style.  The course also examines both the theory and application of strategic management tasks, including developing a mission/vision statement, setting objectives, developing and implementing a strategy, and evaluating performance.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze their own leadership style in order to adapt and develop effective leadership behaviors.
2. Apply the foundations of leadership and decision-making required when dealing with situations marked by change and transition.
3. Apply one or more processes for developing a strategic plan.
4. Identify the distinct challenges of strategic planning and strategic management.
5. Evaluate an organization's business model and develop of a set of action steps for improving its strategy.
6. Identify and apply the steps required to lead change effectively.

This course focuses on integrating project management knowledge, skills and tools developed in previous courses. It emphasizes critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the theories and application of project management. It includes a major research paper and presentation related to a project.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Apply critical thinking and problem solving skills to project management problems or issues.
2. Conduct research on topics associated with project management issues.
3. Implement major aspects of project management for a sample project.
4. Evaluate lines of reasoning offered in support of a view point.
5. Produce various interpretations of a problem or issue, identify various ways of dealing with it and develop strategies for a solution.

This course provides an overview of planning and managing and using technology and information in organizations. It addresses present and future issues regarding Information Technology (IT) and its impact on management and operations.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze how using information technology (systems and its products) delivers a competitive advantage in an organization's market sector.
2. Identify the role information technology plays in promoting better management decisions, strategic advantage, quality and ethical best practices.
3. Evaluate the basic technologies, infrastructure, software, and data resources associated with the new electronic world of information technology.
4. Analyze the need for integrating an organization’s goals and objectives with their use of information technology.
5. Evaluate information technology product development methodologies.
6. Analyze why and how knowledge is a competitive advantage and analyze how management can leverage the information that is accessible in databases.

This course introduces the fundamentals of international business and development and analyzes the global environments in which these interconnected pursuits are conducted. It explores the history, evolving definitions, theories, management, and synergies of global business and international development. The course also explores tools of information, policy, and sustainability. An overview of legal, ethical, and cultural competency issues in both international business and development is provided.

Upon completion this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the ways in which international business and international development affect and reinforce each other.
2. Analyze the elements of the global economy which affect both pursuits.
3. Compare and contrast various economic theories.
4. Assess the advantages and limitations of using business-based methods to serve international development objectives.
5. Develop strategies to address the barriers to successful international business and development.
6. Identify the ethical issues inherent in international business and development.
7. Locate and assess the quality of relevant information, studies, and resources.
    

This course identifies the international political and economic elements shaping the intersection of global business and international development, including domestic economies; regional economic integration; demographic trends; and social, cultural, religious, ethnic and related tensions. The course also identifies political forces affecting the economic choices of states, non-state actors, enterprises, and individuals involved in international trade, investment, monetary, and development affairs.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze how political and economic factors interact to shape the global marketplace and international development environment, including as they relate to states, non-state actors, and patterns of cooperation and conflict in the international system.
2. Evaluate strategies regarding the impact of international political economy on global trade and investment, international development, and regional economic integration.
3. Synthesize in a balanced manner the individual, organizational, and systemic issues in conflicting situations.
4. Analyze the viewpoint of another culture lens to gain new knowledge and insights.
    

This course examines a documented set of processes for managing multiple projects. Program and portfolio management knowledge areas, processes, tools, and practices, and their integration into successful business and organizational contexts are explored.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Apply key program and portfolio management terms.
2. Evaluate the environment in which programs and portfolios operate.
3. Describe a generalized view of how the various project, program, and portfolio management processes commonly interact.
4. Analyze program and portfolio management process inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs.
5. Promote efficient and effective communication and coordination among various project management groups.
6. Express all relevant points of view that bear on the issue.

This course examines the project management framework through the eyes of the IT Professional using case studies and scenario based learning.  Topics include the PMI defined project management knowledge areas, project life cycles and implementation within varying organizational designs.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Use project management terminology.
2. Shape a project plan to address user needs using a systems approach.
3. Document a complete project plan including a specification, schedule and budget in an executable form.
4. Analyze the interdependencies of a typical multi-project environment and address how to effectively manage those interdependencies.
5. Apply common project control methodologies such as Earned Value systems.
6. Conduct project reviews using accepted methods, including CDR and PDR and produce the associated documentation.
7. Conduct the close-out of a project in an IT environment.