ADLP 8600 Project Management Fundamentals
This course introduces students to the basic tenets and components involved in project management. The primary objective is to provide frameworks that make it possible to track and measure project performance, overcome challenges, and adapt to changes in a variety of professional environments. Specific topics covered in the course include project scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and stakeholder management and a variety of other operational issues that emerge during project planning initiation, monitoring, and execution.
Course overview
- Department
- Advancing Studies
- School
- ADV
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Graduate
- Offered
- Every Fall
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.28 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.44 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 6
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Scott Cann | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 2.5 | 7–9 hrs/week | 3 of 6 |
| Fall 2025 | Scott Cann | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 2 of 7 |
| Summer 2025 | Aza Chirkova | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | — | 2 of 3 |
| Spring 2025 | Scott Cann | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4–6 hrs/week | 10 of 16 |
| Fall 2024 | Scott Cann | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 7–9 hrs/week | 10 of 13 |
| Summer 2024 | Aza Chirkova | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4–6 hrs/week | 5 of 5 |