Associate in Science Degree

(60 Term Hours)

Program Manager

Jason Reed
941-752-5461
ReedJ@SCF.edu

Program Goal

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers such as project managers and professionals incorporating IT project management strategies in their business activities in the Information Technology career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Information Technology career cluster.

The content includes but is not limited to balance of business and technology components and allows the student to gain additional skills in the area of Project Management.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate the implementation and use of IT tools and activities relevant to project management.
• Explain the fundamentals of project management, including costs, budgeting, and human resource management.
• Describe and develop the components of a project including project phases, stakeholder expectations, and project management documents.
• Identify and select tools and techniques to manage and monitor project risks, resources, and collaboration.
• Demonstrate the optimization of project scheduling and resource allocation.
• Describe management of a project within organizational constraints, changing scope, resources and schedules.
• Demonstrate the management of a project with ethical consideration.
• Demonstrate employability and communication skills relevant to project management.