This course explores decision-making from the perspective of managers who must decide how to allocate scarce resources under uncertainty. Combining qualitative and quantitative information is emphasized. Topics include framing decision problems, establishing evaluation criteria, determining trade-offs, constructing decision trees, estimating probabilities and risk, and taking responsibility for consequences. The roles of judgment, intuition, and heuristics in decision-making are explored. Students research a practical application of decision analysis. No prerequisite.

Applied Managerial Statistics stresses the practical use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Both descriptive and inferential techniques are covered. No prerequisite.

Business Economics provides a basic understanding of managerial economics and the impact of the economic environment on business decision-making. The course develops micro- and macroeconomic topics, with emphasis on marginal analysis, and supply and demand considerations. No prerequisite.

Managerial Communication emphasizes communication Potencies. That helps ensures business success. Students learn how to write effective, persuasive, and negative messages; conduct business research, analyze information, and write a business proposal or report; deliver an effective oral presentation with visual aids, and create corporate training materials. Also addressed are group dynamics, intercultural communication, media relations, and ethics. No prerequisite.

Managing Quality focuses on the quality function and its implementation, cost, and management in both the manufacturing and service industries. The course provides students with a set of quality concepts and tools, and knowledge required for their application in quality planning, improvement, and control. No prerequisite.

This course examines inter- and intrapersonal dynamics as they affect the achievement of corporate goals. Topics include theories of organizational behavior concepts and applications, including motivation, group dynamics, organizational communication processes, leadership, power, authority, team building, and organizational development. Managing change in a complex domestic and international environment is also emphasized. Students are provided with a solid foundation for systematically examining organizational behavior. No prerequisite.

Students in this course review core concepts and theoretical frameworks to develop practical skills for preventing and managing workplace and personal conflict, and for learning effective tools for resolving disputes. Topics include the nature of the conflict, conflict styles, communication, conflict dynamics, conflict intervention strategy and tactics, and third-party intervention.
Case studies are used. No prerequisite

Operations Management focuses on concepts, methods, and techniques required for directing and controlling processes that convert resources into goods and services. The course develops an integrated methodology that results in meeting the needs of both internal and external customers. Topics include the development of an operations strategy, demand forecasting and management; capacity planning and master scheduling; inventory planning models; purchasing and materials management; and facilities development and maintenance management. Service sector applicability to operations management principles is a central theme throughout the course, as is an introduction to e-commerce principles. No prerequisite.

Applied Managerial Statistics stresses the practical use of statistics in collecting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data. Both descriptive and inferential techniques are covered. No prerequisite.

This course introduces students to the legal, political, and regulatory controls that define, promote, and limit business practice opportunities. Fundamental interactions of law, politics, ethics, and corporate social responsibility are emphasized. Topics include business and the legal system; foundations of business ethics; the constitution and business; regulatory and administrative agencies; regulation of private business conduct; the employer-employee relationship; formation and performance of contracts; ownership and control of the business; antitrust, trade practices and consumer protection; land use and environmental protection; and the legal environment of international business. No prerequisite.

Managing Quality focuses on the quality function, and its implementation, cost and management in both manufacturing and service
industries. The course provides students with a set of quality concepts and tools, and knowledge required for their application in quality planning, improvement and control. No prerequisite.

This course examines how managers plan, budget, schedule, and control multi-project programs within an organizational context. The importance of project teams and human resource management in the process is addressed.
Topics include the role of projects in organizations; alternative organizational systems; program planning, budgeting, monitoring, control, and management methodologies; team management and leadership; legal and ethical issues; conflict identification and resolution; and advanced applications of project management software. Prerequisite: PM586

 Sustainability Project Management. This course introduces

the concept of infusing business projects with a sustainability dimension.
Processes, tools and techniques for sustainability project management are
explored in the contexts if general management and project management. No
prerequisite

 Project Cost and Schedule Control. This course stresses the need for project managers to understand and apply advanced tools and techniques in developing and managing project financial plans. Topics include cost and
benefit estimation; project financial analysis; budgeting; resource allocation;
sensitivity analysis; project metrics; and project cost and schedule control using earned value management systems.

 This course explores various ways to identify, analyze and mitigate the full range of project risks. Coursework also explores the six risk
management processes outlined in Project Management. Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
Guide: risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control. Using a practitioner approach, students learn risk management techniques by applying them to problems in case studies.
Prerequisites: GM533 and PM586

 This course examines processes through which goods and  services are acquired in the project management environment. Topics include
contract and procurement strategies; legal issues; contract pricing alternatives; technical, management and commercial requirements; RFP development; source selection; invitations to bid; bid evaluation; risk assessment; and contract negotiation and administration. No prerequisite

  This course examines processes through which goods and  services are acquired in the project management environment. Topics include contract and procurement strategies; legal issues; contract pricing alternatives; technical, management and commercial requirements; RFP development; source selection; invitations to bid; bid evaluation; risk assessment; and contract negotiation and administration. No prerequisite.

  This course stresses the need for project managers to  understand and apply advanced tools and techniques for developing and managing project financial plans. Topics include cost and benefit estimation; project financial analysis; budgeting; resource allocation; sensitivity analysis; project metrics; and project cost and schedule control using earned value management systems. Prerequisites: AC505 or FI504, and IS581 or PM586

Project Management Systems. With an emphasis on planning, this course introduces project management fundamentals and principles from the standpoint of the manager who must organize, plan, implement and control nonroutine activities to achieve schedule, budget, and performance objectives.
Topics include project life cycles, organization and charters; work breakdown structures; responsibility matrixes, as well as planning, budgeting, and scheduling systems. Planning and control methods such as PERT/CPM, Gantt charts, earned value systems, project management software applications, and project audits are introduced. No prerequisite

Students in this culminating course, intended to be taken as the last course, integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout the MPM program. Students develop, design, and present a project; plan and justify the project; meet performance, schedule, and budget requirements; adjust for unplanned occurrences; and provide status reports. Prerequisite: successful completion of all other program core and MPM program-specific courses before registration.

This course examines inter- and intrapersonal dynamics as they affect the achievement of corporate goals. Topics include theories of organizational behavior concepts and applications, including motivation, group dynamics, organizational communication processes, leadership, power, authority, team building, and organizational development. Managing change in a complex domestic and international environment is also emphasized. Students are provided with a solid foundation for systematically examining organizational behavior. No prerequisite

Managerial Communication emphasizes communication competencies that help ensures business success. Students learn how to write effective, persuasive, and negative messages; conduct business research, analyze information, and write a business proposal or report; deliver an effective oral presentation with visual aids, and create corporate training materials. Also addressed are group dynamics, intercultural communication, media relations, and ethics. No prerequisite.

  By examining contemporary cases and articles, and applying critical thinking, students in this course explore leadership theories, concepts and behaviors to improve their leadership and executive competencies. The course is especially relevant for students who are currently team leaders, managers or executives, or who aspire to leadership positions. The course includes a strong personal learning component through self-assessment and developmental planning. No prerequisite.

  This course introduces project management as a discipline, examines the context of projects, and differentiates between projects and  operations. It explains the lifecycle of a project and presents a framework for project planning and integration. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including:

Relationships
between project management and other management disciplines
Project
phases, lifecycles, and influences
Project
processes, planning, and implementation
Changes
in project scope, schedule, costs, quality and risks 

This course introduces project management as a discipline, examines the context of projects, and differentiates between projects and operations. It explains the lifecycle of a project and presents a framework for project planning and integration. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including Relationships between project management and other management disciplines Project phases, lifecycles, and influences, Project processes, planning, and implementation, Changes in project scope, schedule, costs, quality, and risks

This course focuses on defining the shape and size of a project, establishing a project timeline, setting a budget, and ensuring the quality of the resulting product or service. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including Project scope and activity definition, Schedule development, resource planning, Cost budgeting and control, Quality planning, and assurance

This course examines human resources, communications, risk management, and procurement activities that are necessary for the successful completion of a project. It emphasizes that controlling and tracking progress is essential to project success. Students will investigate a wide range of
related topics including:

Staff acquisition and team development,
Communications planning and information distribution, Risk identification and quantification, Procurement and contract administration.

AC505 focuses on developing, interpreting, and applying accounting information for managerial
decision-making. The course stresses using financial information within
organizations for understanding and analyzing activities and operations. Students
learn linkages between accounting information and management planning through
cost analysis (including activity-based costing), operational and capital budgeting,
and performance measurement. Prerequisite: FI504 or PA504

Budgeting addresses managers’ need to understand the goals, technical procedures, and effects of budgeting. The course provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to budgeting – from the details of preparing the many schedules that compose a master budget to fundamental managerial issues affected by the profit planning and control process. Prerequisite: AC505

This course examines the knowledge, strategies, and techniques needed to manage software
product development. The course helps students develop skills managers need to
create – and successfully execute – plans for software development. Topics
include software project development processes; software development standards;
project planning, scheduling and control strategies; risk assessment and
mitigation; team building, and managing technical personnel. Prerequisites:
IS525 (or equivalent) or IS535, and PM586

This course examines the basis, category, characteristic, component, and criteria of good and virtuous or scientific theory. Students will build skills in critical thinking, understand hypothesis, proposition-including necessary and sufficient conditionality-, paradigm, model, how to contribute to theoretical development, and other concepts or views that not constitute a scientific theory. The course explores trilogy, reductionism, instrumentalism, realism, idealism, issues involved in translating theory into practice. Prerequisites: PM587, PM595, PM586, PM605.

The course will review the literature relevant to PM theory, its components and discuss whether PM theory satisfies the requirements of a
good and virtuous theory. Students will explore an understanding of what project and program managers do in an increasingly complex and interconnected world, how and why project unusually fail, game-changing approaches to
improving project delivery performance in a consistent and measurable pattern,
and critique existing PM theories and methodologies considering the impact of
globalization, projectification, and programification. Students will compare
modern and classical PM theory and microcosmic and macrocosmic perspectives of
the PM theory. Prerequisites: PMT1.0, PM587, PM595, PM586, PM605.

  This course introduces project management as a discipline, examines the context of projects, and differentiates between projects and  operations. It explains the lifecycle of a project and presents a framework for project planning and integration. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including:

Relationships
between project management and other management disciplines
Project
phases, lifecycles, and influences
Project
processes, planning, and implementation
Changes
in project scope, schedule, costs, quality and risks 

This course introduces project management as a discipline, examines the context of projects, and differentiates between projects and operations. It explains the lifecycle of a project and presents a framework for project planning and integration. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including Relationships between project management and other management disciplines Project phases, lifecycles, and influences, Project processes, planning, and implementation, Changes in project scope, schedule, costs, quality, and risks

This course focuses on defining the shape and size of a project, establishing a project timeline, setting a budget, and ensuring the quality of the resulting product or service. Students will investigate a wide range of related topics including Project scope and activity definition, Schedule development, resource planning, Cost budgeting and control, Quality planning, and assurance

This course examines human resources, communications, risk management, and procurement activities that are necessary for the successful completion of a project. It emphasizes that controlling and tracking progress is essential to project success. Students will investigate a wide range of
related topics including:

Staff acquisition and team development,
Communications planning and information distribution, Risk identification and quantification, Procurement and contract administration.

AC505 focuses on developing, interpreting, and applying accounting information for managerial
decision-making. The course stresses using financial information within
organizations for understanding and analyzing activities and operations. Students
learn linkages between accounting information and management planning through
cost analysis (including activity-based costing), operational and capital budgeting,
and performance measurement. Prerequisite: FI504 or PA504

The Master’s Degree Programs equip professionals with the knowledge and skillset expected of project managers in any field. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide recognizes our master's Degree Program.