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Project Management Courses

When you earn your bachelor's degree in Business Administration (BA) with a specialization in Project Management, your curriculum may include these career-enhancing courses:

• Advanced Cost Management - Fostering students' abilities to present information to management as part of the decision-making process, this project management course addresses resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control, as well as activity-based costing, pricing strategies, and profitability. Other topics include current approaches to cost control such as life cycle costing and just-in-time (JIT).
• Total Quality Management - Exploring methods of process control and acceptance sampling, this project management course presents quality procedures and concepts for enhancing goods, services, and the entire business environment. Probability and statistical concepts as well as a total quality system are covered.
• Business Systems Analysis - This project management course employs current techniques to analyze business systems and activities and solve problems. By honing interviewing skills, navigating group dynamics, and developing process flows, data flows, and data models, students learn to identify, define, and document business processes and problems, and to develop solutions.
• Contracts and Procurement - From planning, solicitation, and source selection to contract administration and closeout, this course examines processes required to acquire goods and services in order to meet project requirements. In addition to exploring contract law, contract types, invitation to bid, bid evaluation, and contract negotiations, students employ current approaches to determine what to procure, and document requirements and bid evaluation criteria.
• Human Resources and Communication in Projects - Providing an in-depth look at a project manager's roles and responsibilities, this human resources course focuses on directing and coordinating human resources and links among people, ideas, and information necessary for project success. Topics explored include team building, organizational structure, communication planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and conflict management.

Project Management Course Requirements

To earn a Bachelor of Business Administration at DeVry with a specialization in Project Management, you'll be required to complete 8 full-time semesters or 124 credit hours:

• 94 credit hours (about 30 courses) in your core curriculum
• 30 credit hours (about 8 courses) specific to the business information systems specialization

Although a few courses are worth 1 or 2 credit hours, most are equal to 3 or 4 credit hours. Here's the course load you will carry, depending on whether you attend DeVry as a full- or part-time student:

• Full-time student schedule = 15 credit hours (4 to 5 courses) per semester
• Part-time student schedule = 1 to 14 credit hours (1 to 4 courses) per semester

At DeVry, you choose the pace that best fits your life and your schedule.

To learn more about business administration, human resources courses and project management courses, as well as requirements for completing your bachelor's degree program, contact a DeVry representative or see the academic calendar.