Build your project management certificate

To earn a project management certificate, students must successfully complete the following courses depending on which track of study they choose:

  1. Applied Project Management Certificate: complete the Core Course (PROJ_PMI 402-0 or PROJ_PMI 402-DL) only.
  2. Essentials of Project Management Certificate: complete the Core Course (PROJ_PMI 401-0 or PROJ_PMI 401-DL) and two Elective Courses.

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Annual Schedule

Expand the annual schedule lists below to see which quarters each project management class is typically offered in.

Project Management Annual Schedule - Core Courses

Project Management Annual Schedule - Core Courses
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CORE COURSES
FALL WINTER SPRING SUMMER
PROJ_PMI 401-0 Essentials of Project Management (Remote) X X X X
PROJ_PMI 401-0 Essentials of Project Management (On Campus) X X
PROJ_PMI 401-DL Essentials of Project Management (Online) X X X X
PROJ_PMI 402-0 Applied Project Management (Remote) X X X X
PROJ_PMI 402-DL Applied Project Management (Online) X X X X

Project Management Annual Schedule - Elective Courses

Project Management Annual Schedule - Elective Courses
ELECTIVE COURSES
FALL WINTER SPRING SUMMER
PROJ_PMI 204-0 Developing People and Teams (Remote) X X X
PROJ_PMI 211-0 Soft Skills for the Project Manager (Remote) X X
PROJ_PMI 225-0 Power Excel Skills for Project Managers (Remote) X X
PROJ_PMI 300-0 Managing Distributed Teams (Remote) X X
PROJ_PMI 315-DL Risk Management (Online) X X
PROJ_PMI 345-DL Practical Project Planning (Online) X X

Attribution

PMI, PMBOK, CAPM, PMI-ACP, and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Registration


PDP courses are offered online, remotely, and on-campus. Please refer to the Schedule Notes for course delivery information.

IMPORTANT: The registration process for all professional development courses requires you to register for your course and update your emergency contact information in CAESAR, Northwestern University's Student Enterprise System.

TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT*:

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Please contact pdp@northwestern.edu with any questions.

PROJ_PMI 211-0 : Soft Skills for Project Managers


Description

The effective project manager possesses deep interpersonal skills and is able to use their skills to lead their project teams to deliver results. This 2-week workshop, designed for project managers and team leaders, will help you improve the essential skills needed to be an effective project manager. Using lectures, case studies, discussions and individual and group exercises, you will learn how to improve your capabilities in communication, relationship-management, conflict resolution, decision-making, and team motivation.

 

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

You will leave this course with:


Total Professional Development Units (PDUs): 20 (Ways of Working: 3; Business Acumen: 5; Power Skills: 12)

Registered students can access their online course site here. An activated NetID and password is required for login. *Please note: It may take up to 24-hours for registered students to be added to the online course platform.


Additional Information:

This course is offered during the Fall and Spring quarters.

Tuition : $830

Fall 2024
Start/End DatesDay(s)TimeBuildingSection
12/02/24 - 12/12/24MTh
6 – 9 p.m. 42
InstructorCourse LocationStatusCAESAR Course ID
Barnes, Lisa-Ann
Remote Campus
Open19092
Schedule Notes :

This course will be conducted remotely, online.

This course has required live, synchronous sessions, held online via Zoom, on Mondays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Sync session attendance is mandatory unless otherwise stated by the course instructor.

For more information, please contact profdev@northwestern.edu.

All times listed CST

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