Certificate in Project Management for IT Professionals

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The certificate in project management for IT professionals offers an overview of information systems, their role in organizations, and the relationship of information systems to the objectives and structure of an organization. The planning, scheduling, and controlling of a system project during its life cycle is explored. A survey of techniques for improving the productivity of workplace practices and procedures is included. With appropriate choice of courses, this certificate may be completed while pursuing the Bachelor of Science in information systems management.

Note: Courses may be applied to only one certificate; some prerequisites may need to be fulfilled before beginning certificate courses.

Four required courses:

• IFSM 201 Concepts and Applications of Information Technology (3)
• IFSM 300 Information Systems in Organizations (3)
• IFSM 438 Information Systems Project Management (3)
• IFSM 461 Systems Analysis and Design (3)

A supporting elective chosen from the following: 3

• CSIA 302 Telecommunications in Information Systems
• CSIA 303 Foundations of Information System Security
• CSIA 457 Cyberterrorism and Cyber Crime
• IFSM 302 Workplace Productivity
• IFSM 303 Human Factors in Information Systems
• IFSM 304 Ethics in Information Technology

A second supporting elective chosen from the above list: 3

Total credits for certificate in Project Management for IT Professionals: 18