Mr. Robert Higgins lecturing on Project Management in English
From the fall term, "Project Management" class becomes available in English as well as Japanese. While designed mainly for exchange students, this class also attracted a number of ambitious Japanese students who consider that studying in English will pay off in today's increasingly globalized project field.
The class is officially accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI), whose Japan Chapter dispatches a non-Japanese lecturer to SDM. This is the only English class directly supervised by PMI. For its first attempt, PMI drew up a plan with Associate Professor Toma for approximately six months.
Practicing project management skills with a paper tower construction project
In addition to lectures, the class also introduces a mini project in which students are expected to acquire practical project management skills through construction of a paper tower. This course is of great value as a prerequisite PM training to be certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) as well as a PDU credit course to PMPs required to renew their certificates.