Courses

.75 credit

This course introduces the strategic and professional foundations of project management. Students examine the history of the discipline, define what constitutes a project, and analyze why organizations use projects to deliver strategic value. Core topics include the iron triangle, stakeholder analysis, governance roles, risk management, ethics, and professional pathways. Students develop a project proposal using structured planning and analytical tools aligned with contemporary standards.

Prerequisites: None.

.75 credit

This course translates strategy into delivery capability by examining predictive (waterfall), agile, and hybrid project methodologies. Students learn to tailor life cycles, build high-performing teams, and manage execution through governance, scheduling, stakeholder engagement, and performance measurement. Using digital project tools and AI-assisted workflows, learners integrate planning, uncertainty management, and value delivery. Emphasis is placed on selecting context-appropriate approaches aligned with the PMI PMBOK® Guide.

Prerequisite: MPM 500.

.75 credit

This course develops advanced analytical, contractual, regulatory, and supply chain competencies for managing complex projects. Students apply earned value management, integrated cost-schedule modeling, quantitative risk analysis, contract strategy, and supply chain optimization within corporate and government regulatory environments. Emphasis is placed on AI-driven forecasting, compliance systems, change governance, and value realization. Graduates strengthen executive decision-making capabilities and prepare to operate at the senior project, program, or PMO leadership level.

Prerequisite: MPM 500 & MPM 501.

.75 credit

This course develops quantitative and financial decision-making capabilities for project leaders at project, program, and portfolio levels. Processes and tools used include budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, internal control, auditing, procurement, and disbursement activities while managing the project resources to achieve the project’s objectives. Students construct discounted cash flow models, apply earned value forecasting, conduct sensitivity and risk analyses, and evaluate capital allocation decisions, emphasizing data-driven investment justification and strategic value creation.

Prerequisites: MPM 500, MPM 501, & MPM 502

.75 credit

Communications are at the core of project management. We examine the systematic design, analysis, and optimization of communication processes in complex organizational and project systems. Using evidence-based frameworks, students develop data-driven communication and change management strategies that support organizational transformation, stakeholder alignment, and cultural adaptation. Through applied simulations, executive briefings, and research on emerging digital trends, students integrate structured messaging models, stakeholder analytics, and leadership communication tools to enhance performance in dynamic project environments.

Prerequisites: None.

.75 credit

This course develops the competencies required to lead adaptive projects using Agile frameworks grounded in systems thinking, data analytics, and applied technology. Students apply Scrum, Kanban, and scaled Agile approaches while using quantitative metrics to guide decision-making in uncertain environments. Course content aligns with the PMBOK performance domains of Stakeholders, Team, Development Approach & Life Cycle, Planning, Delivery, Measurement, and Uncertainty, preparing students for PMI-ACP certification.

Prerequisites: MPM 500, MPM 501, and MPM 502.

.75 credit

This is the culminating integrative experience of the Project Management program. Students synthesize strategic governance, lifecycle selection, financial modeling, cost and schedule integration, earned value performance measurement, risk quantification, contracts, supply chain strategy, and executive leadership into a comprehensive enterprise project with a live client or a simulation, demonstrating readiness for professional and PMP-level practice.

Prerequisites: MPM 500, 501, 502, 505, 506, 520, and MBA 500, or consent of the Program Director.

Non-credit; optional 

This PMP review course prepares graduate students for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification exam through a structured, data-driven review aligned with the PMP Exam Content Outline and the PMBOK® Guide. The course integrates predictive, agile, and hybrid methodologies while strengthening quantitative analysis, risk evaluation, and leadership decision-making. Through bootcamp-style modules, scenario-based labs, and full-length simulated exams, students demonstrate professional readiness across all project management performance domains.

.75 credit

MBA 500 The Science of Management is the introductory management course in the MBA program, emphasizing evidence-based and data-informed approaches to leading and managing organizations. Using real-world situations and cases, the course examines core management functions—including planning, organizing, leading, directing, coordinating, and managing complex situations—through the lens of behavioral science and organizational systems. Students build a foundation in classic and contemporary management and leadership theories while learning to interpret organizational data, diagnose performance and people issues, and design practical interventions. Throughout the course, attention is given to both the “art” and the “science” of managing people and teams in modern, dynamic workplaces.

Prerequisites: None.

.75 credit

An introduction to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence (AI), including problem-solving techniques, search strategies and heuristics, planning, machine learning and knowledge representation as applied in project management, including the use of Large Language Models via Generative AI tools. The AI applications used will vary as this rapidly-changing field develops.

.75 credit

An examination of various leadership, managerial and administrative concepts and philosophies. The course places emphasis on the development of attitudes and values appropriate to professional management. The course uses an action learning approach to integrate the various theories and concepts presented.

.75 credit

Course explores human behavior in organizations, using a “micro”-level focus to investigate issues affecting individual behavior, interpersonal relations, groups and organizations. Students work in a variety of small groups and participate in experiential learning designs.

.75 credit

Examines human resource policies including staffing, training, job analysis and evaluation, compensation, employee development, union relations and government requirements.

.75 credit

This course examines the structure, process and nature of negotiations through experiential methods to (1) develop an understanding of negotiation models, strategies, conflict
resolution, communications styles, situational analysis and elements of power and influence; and (2) develop negotiation skills.

.75 credit

Operations management covers the broad range of activities performed in the production of a good or service. It covers scheduling, forecasting, inventory control, purchasing, quality
control, work measurement, methods improvement, layout, material handling, safety, facilities planning, operations strategy and project management. The course examines the
management of the functional area in the organization that either produces a product or provides a service. Since most employees of an organization are in the operations area, the
course includes discussion of ways to develop and coach employees to achieve their best results.

.75 credit

This course is targeted to external and internal consultants, as well as managers and other change agents within organizations. Leading change management fosters improved competency in the skills necessary during all phases of the change process— from diagnosis, to interventions, through evaluation. Organizational change issues are critically examined, and case studies, exercises and assessments are utilized, to better understand change from organizational, group and individual levels. Change models serve as frameworks that emphasize the importance of interactive consultative processes. All students must complete a major organizational change project. This is a leadership course focusing on strategies and strategic issues of change management within organizations.

.75 credit

Business intelligence represents a conceptual framework for decision support. It combines analytics, data warehouses, applications and methodologies to facilitate the transformation
of data into meaningful and functional information. The major objective of business intelligence is to enhance the decision-making process at all levels of management. Data mining is a process that utilizes statistical analysis, probability theory, mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to extract useful information and subsequent knowledge from large data repositories, commonly referred to as “big data.” This course examines a number of
emerging methods proven to be of value in recognizing patterns and making predictions from an applications perspective. Students will be provided the opportunity for hands-on experimentation using software and case studies.