Project Management Certificate

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The certificate in Project Management enables students to consider the final step of preparing for the pinnacle of professional certification with the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Grades of C or higher must be earned in each certificate course.

  • MGT 460 Fundamentals of Project Management

    3 credits
  • MGT 462 Effective Project Management

    3 credits
  • MGT 464 Mastering Project Management

    3 credits
  • TOTAL

    9 credits

Outcomes & Pathways

Students who complete a certificate in Project Management should be able to:

  1. effectively perform project team member and leadership roles in the full spectrum of project management ranging from small, single to large, complex and multiple projects;
  2. present the fundamentals of project management based on a project life cycle;
  3. introduce and explain widely used tools of basic project management;
  4. examine the roles of the project manager and project team members;
  5. explore a best practices approach to planning and managing projects of any size;
  6. improve the performance of traditional project management with innovative new tools;
  7. introduce new and practical approaches for managing today's non-traditional projects;
  8. align projects within an organizational framework and with the business strategy;
  9. review and apply PMI's Project Body of Knowledge (PMBOK); and
  10. implement enterprise level project portfolio and program management.

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