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May 21, 2024
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2021-2022 School of Graduate and Professional Studies Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Graduate and Professional Studies Courses
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Project Management |
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PM 5415 - Ethical Decision Making and Compliance for IT
The moral implications of leadership and decision making when managing projects are explored with respect to their social impacts, and the challenge that exists between achieving desirable project outcomes. This course explores and analyzes the interrelationships and key ethical issues that can arise from each. Topics include but are not limited to collective decision making, liability, privacy issues, and social responsibility. Credits: 3
Credits: 3 |
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PM 5670 - Risk and Decision Making
Decisions are rarely made under conditions of certainty. Managers routinely make decisions with imperfect knowledge and where a degree of risk exists. Through cases and projects students will confront making decisions involving risk. While this course is primarily designed to provide students with the quantitative tools necessary to make and articulate these decisions, understanding qualitative frameworks in which decisions are made will also be examined. Credits: 4
Credits: 4 |
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PM 5675 - Managing Projects and Risks
Managers routinely make decisions with imperfect knowledge and where a degree of risk exists. Through cases and projects students will confront making decisions involving risk. While primarily designed to provide students with the quantitative tools necessary to make and articulate these decisions, understanding qualitative frameworks in which decisions are made will also be examined. Credits: 3
Credits: 3 |
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PM 6310 - Security Management and Projects
Project managers are expected to be experts in their respective fields. Information security concerns should always be a priority when planning and managing project scope. This course will help students ask the right questions, measure risk maturity levels, determine ways to handle sensitive data, and ways to implement IT security risk strategies. Credits: 4
Credits: 4 |
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PM 6315 - Security Management for Project Managers
Information security concerns should always be a priority when managing project risks. This course will help students ask the right questions, measure risk maturity levels, determine ways to handle sensitive data, and ways to implement IT security risk strategies. Credits: 3
Credits: 3 |
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PM 6610 - Lean Project and Portfolio Management
Lean Six Sigma saves organizations time and money through continuous improvement. Students will identify and implement strategies and tools necessary for process improvement to optimize projects and overall portfolio management. Students will utilize the DMAIC structured approach to process improvement. Credits: 4
Credits: 4 |
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PM 6615 - Project and Portfolio Management Using Lean
Project managers need to identify risks, errors, or defects and implement strategies and tools necessary for process improvement. Through Lean management techniques, students will implement tools and decision-making to maximize value and minimize waste while optimizing project and their overall portfolio. Credits: 3
Credits: 3 |
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PM 6900 - IT Project Management Capstone
In this course students will use all of the skills first introduced in the previous courses to initiate, plan, execute, control, and close a simulated project - from developing key deliverables to facilitating meetings to justifying decisions for the benefit of key stakeholders.
Students creatively analyze, synthesize, and evaluate learned knowledge in a project having a professional focus, and communicate the results of the project effectively at a professional level.
Each student will undertake a major investigation of a foremost IT Project Management challenge in the workplace, be it from the student’s own experience or in a field in which the student hopes to secure employment. Developed in a problem and solution format, the student is expected to use extensive research into best practices and associated professional methodology. Written and oral components are required to complete this course. Students will also use project management software to help provide the needed artifacts that are commonly used in any large-scale project. Credits: 4
Credits: 4 |
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