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Course Description
Material for your catalog.
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Project Management Certification - Paraphrase this paragraph for your catalog:
This course (TheCourse™) was developed and is conducted by a Registered Education Provider of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). It is registered with PMI as a 56-hour course, surpassing their 35-hour requirement, and pre-approved by PMI to prepare students for certification as Project Management Professionals (PMP®). Course materials include PMI's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge 4th Edition (PMBOK®), workbooks tailored for TheCourse, and TheTest™, a Test Engine containing 500 exam-like questions, to download and use on your own computer. TheCourse teaches the core competencies of project management. It covers the five process groups and nine knowledge areas of PMBOK, the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct, and a review of general management topics that are in the PMP examination. Project management is an evolving profession, and employers are increasingly requiring that their project managers be certified. See www.TheCourse.us for more information.
Bio:
Norris Goff, developer of TheCourse curriculum and materials, is currently the principal instructor for online students.
Norris has been a project manager since about 1965, at which time he was employed by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). Projects he managed include the New York City Off-Track Betting System and the US Department of Agriculture nationwide integrated system, each costing some $350 million in current dollars. He developed the original Guidelines for Project Management for CSC, circa 1970. In recent years, prior to developing TheCourse in 2001, he was a contract project manager.
Norris has an MBA from Southeastern University and an undergraduate degree in Data Processing Management. He is certified by Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).