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UnderGraduate Diploma in Project Management

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Courses Offered in PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Principles of Project Cost

  • Project Cost Estimation is beset with pitfalls. This course aims to shed light on the basic principles of project costing. It presents a structured analysis of cost estimating. After all, if the cost estimator gets it wrong, the implication affects the whole project.

  • 6 Credits

  • Information Systems Project Management

  • This course aims to equip you with both theory and practical skills in the management of software development and IS infrastructure. This course will help you understand the role and responsibilities of a software project manager; further enhancing your team management skills. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Basics of Total Quality Management

  • Quality is the responsibility of every individual and embedded in every activity undertaken by the organization and is customer driven. The aim of the course is to build an understanding of the management of quality and the recognition of quality performance as a strategic goal in manufacturing and service companies. The course will provide an insight into issues of global competitiveness, quality planning, all integrated to successfully face today's business challenge.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Conflict Management

  • Conflict is a part of life. This course explores how to develop the universal skill of negotiation. It explores the complexities of negotiations, by looking at how conflict is related and how temperaments and personality traits impact the process.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Project Management

  • In this course, we introduce the concept of project management, discuss the role of project manager, identify and orient you with the issues related to planning the project, schedule and project control and evaluation and management of project team.

  • 6 Credits

  • Basics of Project Risks

  • Risk is a profit maker or profit killer in business. This course teaches project managers how to identify risk, quantify its potential impact and create a plan to respond to the occurrence of risk events. In this course, you will work through the proactive approach to threat and opportunity.

  • 6 Credits

Principles of Project Cost

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Process approach to project management
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Engineering economic analysis
    Life-cycle costing
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Project screening and selection
    Multi-criteria methods for evaluation
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Scope and organizational structure of a project
    Management of product, process, and support design
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Project scheduling
    Resource management
    Project budget
    Project control
    Research and development projects
    Computer support for project management
    Project termination

Information Systems Project Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to project management
    The project management lifecycle
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing project teams
    Managing project communications
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Managing project scope
    Managing project scheduling
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing project resources
    Managing project quality
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing project risk
    Managing project procurement
    Managing project execution
    Managing project controland closure

Basics of Total Quality Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Customer satisfaction.
    Continuous process improvement.
    Performance measures.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Benchmarking.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Information technology.
    Quality management systems.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Quality function deployment -qfd-.
    Failure mode and effect analysis -fmea-.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Products liability.
    Total productivity maintenance.
    Statistical process control -spc-.
    Experimental design.
    Taguchi's quality engineering.

Introduction to Conflict Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining negotiation and its components
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Personality
    Conflict
    Negotiation style
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Key negotiating temperaments
    Communicating in negotiation
    A note on cultural and gender differences
    Interests and goals in negotiation
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Understanding the importance of perception in negotiation
    Effects of power in negotiation
    Asserting yourself
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Principles of persuasion
    Rules of negotiation and common mistakes
    The negotiation process and preparation
    Alternative styles, strategies, and techniques of negotiation
    Team negotiation
    Negotiation in leadership and public relations
    Third-party intervention
    Using your personal negotiating power
    Post-negotiation evaluation

Introduction to Project Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Project management overview.
    The project manager.
    Essential elements for any successful project.
    Defining a project.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Planning a project.
    Developing the work breakdown structure.
    Estimating the work.
    Developing the project schedule.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Determining the project budget.
    Controlling a project.
    Managing project changes.
    Managing project deliverables.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing project issues.
    Managing project risks.
    Managing project quality.
    Leading a project.
    Managing project communications.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing expectations.
    Keys to better project team performance.
    Managing differences.
    Managing vendors.
    Ending a project

Basics of Project Risks

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    Integration, general approach and definitions
    Risk identification
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Risk assessment goals and methodology
    Computer applications
    Risk response and documentation
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Management of contingency allowances
    Managing the risks of the project's environment
    Dealing with risks in contracts
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
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