Master of Science in Project Management
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Understanding the Credit Evaluation for Admission Form
Upon admission to the Master of Science in Project Management program, you will be mailed a Credit Evaluation for Admission Form. For reference, you may view the
current form.
The Credit Evaluation for Admission Form will indicate which foundation courses you are required to take, which courses will require you to complete one or more prerequisites, how many transfer credits you have been awarded, and whether any eligibility restrictions exist for you for any courses.
When a course in the curriculum has a prerequisite, that prerequisite is listed (indented) under the course. Either "need" or "met" is circled, which indicates whether you must take another course before taking that graduate course. The form is supposed to help you decide which sequence to follow in choosing foundation and core courses, and which electives you are not prepared to take (or what additional type of course may be required to prepare you to take that elective).
The prerequisite of an accounting course for BSAD 5620 Financial Management can be satisfied by either an undergraduate accounting course or the graduate ACCT 7000 Managerial Accounting foundation course. For students who have completed an undergraduate course in accounting, their prerequisite for Financial Management has been met and they may enroll in BSAD 5620 whenever they choose. Students who have not had an accounting course must take an accounting course before taking Financial Management, so they should enroll in ACCT 7000 first, then BSAD 5620. Otherwise, the foundation courses may be taken in any sequence along with the core and elective courses.
PM 7010 and PM 7020 form a two-course sequence that covers the nine areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. It is usually best to take PM 7020 immediately after completing PM 7010.
You may not enroll in elective courses that you took as an undergraduate or for which you have had several years experience. This is a General Requirement of our Graduate School (see number 4 on the front of your credit evaluation sheet, or under the School of Graduate Studies "Requirements" heading). You are not granted graduate credit for them; you are just not allowed to take them. (You would not really gain enough through them to make them worth it for you.)
You will need to earn at least 9 credits of electives. You may choose from among the UW-Platteville courses for which you are eligible and have met the prerequisites, and you may take some electives somewhere else and transfer them in. The option to transfer courses earned elsewhere gives students a lot of flexibility in choosing their electives. If there is a graduate course you would like to take elsewhere, send information about it to your advisor and he/she will let you know whether UW-Platteville can accept it as transfer credits for part of your total program. Our Graduate School allows up to 50% of the credits in any program to be earned this way, so you could take 18 of your 36—or 15 of your 30 or 33 credits—elsewhere and have them transferred in.
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