Project Management ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

Project management requires a combination of understanding the project life cycle, organizational, behavioral, and management concerns, and project management tools. This course provides students with at least an introduction to all of these in a comprehensive, non-fragmented way, and gives them the foundation to further develop their abilities. Students will acquire project management knowledge that can be helpful in thinking about, understanding, discussing, and managing projects. This course can be individualized to explore particular contexts. For study groups and independent studies, the student should check with the mentor/instructor to ensure that the student's preferred specialty offering is available in the course section. For the online course, existing context options include predesigned tracks with reading lists include construction, government, health care, IS/IT, manufacturing, non-profit, and multinational, and the student can work with the instructor to arrange for other contexts. Prerequisites: Management Principles; Organizational Behavior Notes/Comments: Students can only take one of the project management courses: INFT 3035 Project Management, MGIS 4015 Project Management in IT/IS, or MGMT 4030 Project Management for Business. Assumptions about surrounding courses: Management Principles (or equivalent experience in management), Organizational Behavior (or significant experience in management) This course was previously SMT-273454 Project Management.