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2021-2022 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Project Management Graduate Certificate


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Project managers are responsible for facilitating the successful development, execution, and completion of given projects. Project management activities cover everything from project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling and closing and the utilization of processes and tools to coordinate them.

Upon completion of the Project Management Graduate Certificate Program, students will be able to:

  1. Successfully compete for project management positions within the field of choice
  2. Prove application of the ten project management knowledge areas: integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk, procurement management, and stakeholder management as applied to each area
  3. Explain and analyze the components involved, and processes necessary for, successful project management as adapted to the specific needs of the organization or industry (i.e. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling and closing)
  4. Design and implement tools/templates to support the project management process within an organization
  5. Articulate leading trends and issues in project and change management
  6. Evaluate and implement necessary strategies for domestic and global project management with respect to cultural and performance-related interactions
  7. Demonstrate knowledge of high ethical standards and the application of those standards in real life project management situations consistent with the Christian humanistic philosophy of St. Francis de Sales.

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