About the Program
The Certificate of Achievement in Project Management is designed to help students learn important skills to become an entry level Program Manager in a variety of industries. This is a growing and dynamic area for careers in construction, engineering, architecture, computing, healthcare, telecommunications, and many other fields. The Certificate of Achievement is designed to serve both transfer and career students. The additional project management courses focus on the software and key project management skills to complement their continued studies and allow them to become employable while completing their next degree.
Program Requirements
For current program requirements -> 2023-2024Program Code: 42240.00CA
Type: Career
General Education: None
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
Identify and define project needs. Explore the project quality management processes of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control necessary to successfully meet conformance to project requirements and fitness of use.
Identify, analyze, and resolve project problems. Quality standards and various methodologies are explored as tools and techniques used to manage project quality and resolve problems.
Plan project schedules and budgets.
Manage effectively in a variety of project organizational structures.
Communicate effectively among various project personnel and stakeholders.
Utilize the MS Project Management software and MS Outlook software to work in an efficient and productive manner as a project manager.
Apply the fundamentals of accounting, supervising and leading, business management and human resources.
Explore program manager jobs in a variety of industries and how these skills are transferrable between industries.
Unit(s): 4.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
68.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 68.00
This is the study of accounting as an information system, examining why it is important and how it is used by investors, creditors, and others to make decisions. The course covers the accounting information system, including recording and reporting of business transactions with a focus on the accounting cycle, the application of generally accepted accounting principles, the financial statements, and statement analysis. Includes issues relating to asset, liability, and equity valuation, revenue and expense recognition, cash flow, internal controls, and ethics. (C-ID ACCT 110)
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 2
Unit(s): 4.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
68.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 68.00
This course provides students an in depth study of how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations and controlling. It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure and cost-volume-profit analysis. Includes issues relating to cost systems, cost control, profit planning, and performance analysis in manufacturing and service environments. (C-ID ACCT 120).
Unit(s): 3.00
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
42.50 hours Lecture
/ 25.50 hours Lab
Total Course Hours: 68.00
This course introduces students to two industry-leading management software used in today's successful businesses: Microsoft (MS) Project and Outlook. Students will be introduced to Microsoft Outlook, a personal information management (PIM) software, that provides users with the integrated tools needed to manage professional e-mail communication and accounts; manage and organize events; and create and manage contacts, contact lists, and Groups. Students will also be introduced to Microsoft Project, a project management software, that provides users with the management tools needed to build and manage business plans/schedule including creating tasks; setting up resources; assigning resources; creating Gantt charts, and Timelines, and reports; and tracking progress.
Unit(s): 3.00
Transfer Status: CSU/UC
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is survey of business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Students will learn about how this business context (including issues such as ethics and sustainability) influences the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and securities market; and therefore affect a business' ability to achieve its organizational goals. (C-ID BUS 110).
Unit(s): 3.00
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course invites current and future managers to build foundational skills for leading teams of employees in a diverse, multicultural work environment. The focus is on self-assessment, analyzing to understand work situations, as well as developing leadership skills and strategies. This course emphasizes individual factors impacting success including communication skills, conflict resolution, motivation, decision making, leadership style, and business ethics.
Unit(s): 3.00
Transfer Status: CSU
Contact Hours:
51.00 hours Lecture
Total Course Hours: 51.00
This course is intended to prepare students to become entry-level project managers. Project Management professionals focus on project scope, procurement, time, risk, cost, quality, human resources, communication, and integration management. Students will learn to manage projects in a variety of industries with hands-on training, tools, and techniques that can be applied immediately in the job market.
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Contacts
Kenneth Bearden, Chair
(530) 895-2213
Department Office: BE 116
(530) 895-2371
Counseling and Advising:
(530) 895-2378
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