MPM Degree Program Required Courses

Part-Time Graduate Degree Work: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ's online MPM degree has been developed for the full-time employed project manager who wishes to study part-time. You will complete six semester hours of graduate credit in each 16-week term. Three terms are offered each year, enabling you to complete the 36 semester hour degree in two years. Courses in this program must be taken one at a time in a specific course order. Courses must be completed in summer semesters to stay on track. All students begin the program with PM 650. Taking courses out of order or doubling up on courses is not permitted.

  • PM 650 - The Project Management Mindset and Project Teams:  An overview of the project management discipline, project phases, and PMBoK knowledge areas; project manager, leadership, and team dynamics; motivation, conflict, and empowerment.
    PREQ: Acceptance to the MPM program or approval from the program director. 

  • PM 652 - Project Selection, Initiation, and Legal Considerations: Organizational structure and project strategic alignment; decision analysis and financial tools for project selection; negotiation and influence, regulatory and legal environments in the project context.
    PREQ: 650. 

  • PM 654 - Project Planning: Preparation of the project plan; requirements, stakeholder and risk analysis; work breakdown structure, scope, quality, communication, cost planning; network diagram, critical path, and schedule development; resource allocation.
    PREQ: 650, 652. 

  • PM 656 - Project Execution: Project baseline and approval; project controls and integration management: change control, earned value management, quality assurance and control, resource leveling and schedule compression
    PREQ: 650, 652, 654

  • PM 658 - Project Closeout, Ethics, and Approaches: Termination of projects, administrative closeout and audit, lessons learned procedures; professional responsibility and ethics, information systems and projects; AGILE project management; alternative PM perspectives; managing global projects.
    PREQ: 650, 652, 654, 656. 

  • PM 660 - Advanced Topics in Project Management: Organizational politics; the Project Management Office - chair at the table; project management maturity - the competitive advantage; using project management to lead organizational change; portfolio and program management
    PREQ: 650, 652, 654, 656 and 658. 

Master of Project Management Faculty

Vittal Anantatmula

Project Management

828.227.3990

Vittal Anantatmula

D.Sc.; Professor

Todd Creasy

Project Management

828.227.3600

Todd Creasy

D.M.; Professor, Director, Corporation of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Yang Fan

Project Management

828.227.3560

Yang Fan

Ph.D.; Professor

Nathan Johnson

Project Management

828.227.3711

Nathan Johnson

Ph.D.; Professor

Michael Shick

Project Management

828.227.3714

Michael Shick

D.B.A.; Assistant Professor