Project Management

Effective: Fall 2021
Certificate of Proficiency Program Map
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This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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Program Description

The Project Management Program consists of 5 courses leading to the Project Management Certificate of Achievement (15 units). The program requires both intellectual commitment and the development of practical project management skills. All classes are available online. This is NOT a program for transfer to a university. It is intended to assist individuals in obtaining skills necessary to prepare for industry certification.


What can I do with this major?

By completing the Project Management certificate, your career options include:

  • A job within a business to manage product or service development using project management.
  • Jobs are most commonly found in the following industries: architecture, engineering, banking and finance, education, healthcare, marketing, insurance, human resource management, information technology, event management, and construction.
  • Opening your own consulting project management practice. As you start growing in your career, and gain project management experience, you will want to earn additional industry certifications.
  • Project management, product management, agile, quality assurance and control, construction, procurement and event planning industries offer additional certifications. These often lead to increases in responsibility and promotion to management positions.

Learning and Career Pathway
  • Business, Economics & Information Technology

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Semester 1

15 units

BUS 88
Introduction to Project Management

3 units
Project management is the ability to define work efforts in terms of time, budget, and resource needs essential for business planning. Covers the forms, tools, and processes to plan and manage these efforts both efficiently and effectively.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: CAS 50
  2. Strongly Recommended: CSCI 8
    3. and
  3. Strongly Recommended: CAS 54A

BUS 89
Project Planning, Scheduling and Control

3 units
A successful Project Manager relies on an effective management plan, which provides a baseline for monitoring progress, identifying variances, and taking timely action to mitigate the impact of problems. In this course, you learn how to create such a plan and implement it through to project completion and evaluation. It explores in greater detail the tools and techniques presented in Business 88.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 88

BUS 84
Advanced Project Processes

3 units
This course provides an overview of MS Project and other tools used by project managers. Conducted in a PC Lab environment, students will get an opportunity to work with the tool while receiving support from an experienced and knowledgeable instructor/coach. Students will have an opportunity to analyze a project, develop a project schedule, enter information into MS Project, then use this tool manage resource allocations, complete networking and task assignments, as well as a budget and earned value reporting. MS Project also offers a depth of reporting functionality, and students will learn how to create and modify reports for their project decision making and communication needs.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 88

BUS 97
Project Management Certification Exam Preparation

3 units
The Project Management Institute (PMI) offers two credentials for project managers who want formal recognition of their project knowledge. In particular, the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification for experienced project managers and the Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM) credential for entry-level project managers. These are well-recognized credentials for project managers, both those in the job market and those who want to work in a formal business project management environment. Both credentials require that applicants complete a comprehensive description of their experience and pass a certification exam. This course prepares students to complete the test application, study for, and pass, either the PMP or the CAPM examination, both based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 88
    2. and
  2. Strongly Recommended: BUS 89

BUS 98
Agile Project Management

3 units
Introduce agile methodology to Project Managers. The course highlights the unique tools, techniques, knowledge and skills that an agile project requires. Agile project practitioners will utilize specific management techniques throughout the project development life cycle. Knowledge of this process is now required for certification exam by the Project Management Institute.
Course Details:
  1. Strongly Recommended: BUS 88
Total Units: 15 units
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.