Business Project Management PG (11828.1)

This unit develops business project managers and leaders who are future ready and globally oriented. It teaches the philosophies, strategies, approaches, processes, tools, and techniques that are essential to project management. It equips the students with capabilities and skills required in a project's life cycle, from initiation, planning, implementation, to delivery and completion. Further, it stimulates the students to develop innovation and entrepreneurship, independently and collaboratively, to advance new thinking and practice of project management. The teaching and learning involve not only hands-on project management, but also interpersonal skills, communication, collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and leadership. These attributes enable the students to tackle challenges and wicked problems of project management to ensure success in a rapidly changing business environment characterised by increasing competition, disruption, and uncertainty.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Grasp and apply the essential capabilities and skills of project management;
2. Develop new thinking and practice to advance innovation of project management; and
3. Demonstrate advanced management, collaboration, leadership, and communication in a business environment.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.