FdSc Project Management

FdSc PROJECT MANAGEMENT Advancing your career in project management Course Length: 3-4 years part-time or 2 years full-time Location: Carlisle Business Interaction Centre, Paternoster Row, Carlisle.

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WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE THIS COURSE The Foundation Degree in Project Management allows you to combine academic study with workplace learning.

There is a growing demand for suitably qualified project managers in a range of different sectors and industries.

This professionally recognised course can enhance your career prospects and allow you to learn about how project management is applied in different sectors.

This Foundation Degree course can be studied either full-time or part-time to suit your employment and lifestyle. With the support of your employer, you can continue to earn while you learn and develop skills which can be applied in the workplace.

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HOW YOU WILL LEARN The foundation degree is delivered at the Carlisle Business Interaction Centre on Paternoster Row. You will have the option of completing the course full-time over two years, or part-time over three or four years.

These arrangements will be confirmed in advance of your enrolment, after discussion with your employer. Most of the course is delivered on a day release basis with some block week delivery.

Lectures will be delivered by experienced academics and industry professionals, and delivery will be a blend of face-to-face teaching in lectures and seminars, supported by high quality online learning resources.

COURSE CONTENT The Foundation Degree course in Project Management is accredited by the Association for Project Management. This is the UK’s largest professional body for project management with over 21,000 individual members and 500 employers.

The focus of the course is on the underpinning of knowledge and education to enable newly appointed project managers, as well as more experienced project managers, to enhance their skills and to build on their experience to take this to graduate level.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA We have extensive experience of developing vocational higher education programmes and responding to key employer needs. In developing this course, we have also worked in close collaboration with the University of Manchester, which has a long history of providing highly successful post-graduate education in project management. This link provides a ladder of opportunity that extends from undergraduate through to post-graduate and Doctoral opportunities.

Modules on the course include:

Year 1 •

Foundations of Project Management

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Professional Development I

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Projects in context - the Business Environment

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Projects in a Commercial Environment

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Project Planning and Control

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Stakeholder management

Year 2 •

Applied Project Management

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Project Performance Management

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Project Management Professionalism

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Project Management Methodologies

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Ensuring Project Quality

After successful completion of the Foundation degree course, you will have the opportunity to progress to the BSc (Hons) in Project Management (Completion award).

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 100 UCAS points plus Maths and English at GCSE C or above OR At least two years work experience in an appropriate context.

HOW TO APPLY Apply through UCAS (course code N210) or contact the course team directly to find out more (see overleaf).

FdSc Project Management

Contact the Course Team for more information: Therese Lawlor-Wright t: 07921388967 e: therese.lawlor-wright@cumbria.ac.uk Charles Dobson t: 07714082291 e: Charles.dobson@cumbria.ac.uk

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