BUS602: Project Management

Undergraduate Syllabus

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Course Description

This course is an introduction to project management (PM). A variety of learning opportunities are employed to help students learn and demonstrate an understanding of the various project management concepts, techniques, and tools.  A running case problem is also used allowing students to develop multiple outputs or deliverables related to managing a project throughout the course.

Course Outcomes

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand the growing need for better project, program, and portfolio management and distinguish the differences.
2. Describe project management and discuss key elements of the project management framework, including the five levels of project portfolio management, the project management knowledge areas, common tools and techniques, and project success factors.
3.  Discuss the initiating process from pre-initiating tasks to initiating tasks and create a project charter to formally initiate a project.
4.  Describe the importance of creating plans to guide project execution and outputs for project integration and scope management and create related documents including scope, work breakdown structure (WBS), a milestones list, quality checklist, communications and risk management plans.
5. Recognize planning processes and outputs for project quality, human resource, communications, stakeholder, risk, and procurement management and update project-related information as part of quality assurance and development internal and external communication documents.
6. Understand processes and outputs of project monitoring and controlling by developing a performance/progress report.
7. Develop a lessons-learned report based on an understanding of a common way to close or terminate projects and reflect on best practices in project management.

Degree Program Outcomes

Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an asterisk (*). After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:

1. Finance. Analyze the complexities of financial and administrative systems and apply that to make effective business decisions.*
2. Innovation. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
3. Relational. Develop and implement human capital, talent management and general human resource plans sensitive to the dynamics of corporate human behavior in different cultural contexts. 
4. Values. To develop plans to achieve their own personal vocation and calling as well as bringing social change to the world in line with Christian values.
5. Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a plan for starting or growing an organization. 
6. Specialization. Demonstrate professional competencies in a specialty area appropriate for managerial roles in private industry, public sector institutions, and not-for-profit agencies.*

Required Texts

Students are required to purchase these texts before the first day of classes. 

• Schwalbe, K. (2015). An Introduction to Project Management (7th Ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Schwalbe Publishing.  ISBN: 978-1505212099.

Guidelines for Written Work

All written work must follow our Writing Format and Forum Requirements. You must read these to understand how to cite sources appropriately.

Critical Policies to Read for This Course

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• Grading Scale 

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• What plagiarism is and how to avoid it 

• Credit Hour Policy, Grading Policy and Other Academic Policies

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• Student Code of Conduct 

• Library Services

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This syllabus is subject to change without notice up until the first day of the semester. Last updated: May 5, 2022