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Certificate Program in Project and Program Management
Below this overview, you will find a list of all the courses associated with this program. While not all courses are currently offered, you can view each course description to become more familiar with the complete curriculum of the certificate or award.
Certificate Contact
Business and Management Department, (408) 861-3860, or e-mail program@ucsc-extension.edu.
Program Overview
Learn Project Management the Silicon Valley way; you'll acquire the sophisticated project management methods and systems that are the benchmark of industry. We are certified with PMI's highest designation--Global Registered Education Provider. Our program is renowned for its real-world curriculum tailored to the fast-moving, constantly changing workplace in Silicon Valley.
All of our instructors are working professionals and experts in their fields. They incorporate the newest technology and processes into our courses to ensure you graduate with cutting-edge skills.
Flexible Learning Options
Take individual courses to expand or update specific skills, graduate with our certificate before becoming a certified PMI Project Management Professional, or put yourself firmly on course for an M.S. Our PPM certificate's reputation is national and our courses earn credit toward master of science programs in project management and related disciplines at leading graduate schools:
University of Wisconsin:University of Denver/University
Take individual courses to expand or update specific skills, graduate with our certificate and become a certified PMI Project Management Professional, or to put yourself firmly on course for an M.S.
Audience
- Business managers
- Technical managers
- Government managers
- Recently promoted project managers
- Anyone assigned to a project team
Certificate Requirements·
- Total of seven courses
- -- Four required courses
- -- Three elective courses
- Overall GPA of 3.0
- Course work must be completed within three years of declaring candidacy
- Courses completed more than five years prior to date certificate is issued cannot be used to fulfill requirements
- Refer to our Web site, www.ucsc-extension.edu/gpa, for our calculator
Prerequisites
None.
Required Courses
- Role of the Project Manager
- Project Leadership and Communication
- Project Integration and Risk Management
- Applied Project Management
Elective Courses
- Creating the Successful Project Team
- Decision-Making Tools and Techniques
- Extreme and Agile Project Management
- Managing Projects at Young Companies
- Managing Projects with Microsoft Project
- Managing Software Projects
- Managing the Development of New Products
- Project Management Negotiation Principles and Techniques
- Project Procurement: Outsourcing and Contract Management
- Schedule Optimization Techniques for Managers
Recommended Course Sequence
"Role of Project Manager" is strongly recommended as the first required course.
Certificate Application Information
We encourage you to establish candidacy in a certificate program early in your studies. The benefits of declaring candidacy early include notification of updates to the program. Certificate applications can be submitted through our online formor using our PDF form . If you use our PDF form, please submit your application along with the appropriate fee to the address or fax number listed on the application form.
Program Coordinator
MICHAEL TAYLOR, M.S., MPM, FAAPM, is a PPM-certified master instructor and principal of Systems Management Services. He has more than 30 years of project management and engineering experience including six years on the Space Station Project. He has conducted training for Sun, GTE, Siemens, TRW, Loral, Santa Clara Valley Water District and Inprise. He regularly contributes relevant articles to the International Community for Project Managers (ICPM), and the Project Manager's HUT, considered to be the largest database of categorized Project Management articles.
