Project Management is the process where a single leader/manager is responsible for building a project or program team to accomplish the project's objectives on schedule, within budget, and to the customer's satisfaction. This includes planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating, monitoring, motivating and controlling the combined efforts of all of the product teams, functional and staff groups within an organization, and outside contractors and vendors. It is the integrated management of a specific project carried out in a systematic way. Management of projects and large programs consisting of a number of projects is one of the most complex and demanding management concepts in existence. Project management skill is quite different from the technical skills that are so often associated with most projects. There are aspects of all projects which are outside the scope of the technical areas, yet which must be managed with every bit as much care, ability, and concern. That is, these non-technical areas must be well managed if the project's objectives are to be met with optimum economy of resources, and with the maximum satisfaction to the participants.

GOALS OF THE PROGRAM
The goals of the program are to provide:

• a  structured, yet varied knowledge of the theory and practice of project/program management
• an opportunity to study the role of the project manager, and to learn the strategies, tactics and functions associated with the management of an entire project or program
• a more complete understanding of project interests in relation to business as a whole, and to the total economic, political, technological and social environment of the field
• a more complete understanding of his or her own functional interests in relation to business as a whole, and to the total economic, political, technological and social environment of the field
• an understanding of the proper relationship of basic principles in relationship to the changing techniques used to implement them
• facility in critical analysis, and analytical, communication, quantitative and synthesizing skills
• an increase in the marketability of the student's skills and experience in today's competitive marketplace

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
The Master of Project Management program is organized into a block of general management courses and a block of project management courses. The management courses are designed to provide the student with an overall framework of business knowledge. They stress the basic principles, concepts, and practices associated with the overall management of any business. The project management courses provide the student with both the theory and a working knowledge of the project management field to include the areas of leadership, business and financial management, human relations, technical management, communications and negotiation and international operations.

The student must successfully complete courses totaling a minimum of 36 semester units in the program and then pass a program comprehensive examination or complete an approved project.

Program/Project Management Courses		General Management Courses
. . . . . . . . *Managing Projects Course 627 or Program Management Course 625 or Mastering IT Project Management Course 628 Technical Program Management Course 629 *Building, Leading and Managing Project Teams Course 671 Contracting and Procurement for Project Managers Course 632 Earned Value Management Systems Course 647 Risk Analysis and Management Course 679 Project Quality Management Course 687 Negotiation for Project Managers Course 636		. . . . . *Essentials of Management Course 602 *Management Accounting and Control Course 657 *Business Research Methods Course 653 *Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Course 659 *Financial Management B Course 661 or Management Information Systems B Course 695 or Management Economics Course 663
*Courses marked with an asterisk are required. Other courses are electives. Each course is 3 semester units. Program requires completion of 36 semester units.

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