Certificates

The Cybersecurity Management Certificate is designed to prepare early careerists and seasoned managers for cybersecurity leadership roles in the public or private sectors. The array of courses focuses on developing sustainable executive practices that result in efficient cybersecurity management and effective outcomes to the organizations served. This program is designed to give participants hands-on, real-world experience with classroom studies to bridge the practical application of effective cybersecurity management with best practices and contemporary theoretical constructs. Cybersecurity professionals are being hired in a myriad of organizations and industries, but specific sectors where job growth is projected include financial, healthcare, energy, and government organizations. Courses in this certificate program must be completed in a sequence, and will serve as electives toward the MBA degree. 

The Human Resource Certificate provides graduate level engagement in strategic, tactical, and conflict resolution subjects dealing with procuring, deploying, maintaining, and improving an organization’s human capital. Topics covered include legal, practical, ethical, and strategic approaches in human resource management, practical approaches to implementing policies and procedures related to staffing, training, and motivation of employees, and labor relations and dispute resolution processes. This certificate provides completers with a depth of knowledge to effectively perform in a variety of roles within human resources departments or whose job responsibilities deal in personnel or talent management.  Courses for this certificate may be completed in any order, and will serve as electives toward the MBA degree.  

The Project Management Certificate follows the primary content and knowledge areas identified by the Project Management Institute in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) setting industry standards and considered essential for a role or career as a project management professional.  Material covered through the certificate program center on the ten knowledge areas and five process groups utilized in most all organizations utilizing project management approaches to meet organizational outcomes.  Critical case analysis, individual, and team-based project development and execution is emphasized through best practices for project management.  This certificate provides completers with a depth of knowledge focused on professional certification as a project manager, but also enables successful completers to thrive in businesses and industries with organizational workflow processes designed around project-based approaches.  Courses in this certificate program must be completed in a sequence, and will serve as electives toward the MBA degree.