Professional Studies
Management Certificate Program
The Management Certificate Program is designed for individuals who want to develop their professional skills and further their careers. This program prepares them to take on management and leadership roles in their organizations.
For current course scheduling, textbook information and more please visit www.dce.UWinnipegcourses.ca
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN:
- Enhancing their current knowledge and skills
- Entering or re-entering the workforce
- Exploring a change in employment focus or career transition
- Moving into a supervisory or management position
- Securing essential workplace knowledge and communication skills to complement an academic degree
UPON COMPLETION OF THIS PROGRAM YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
- Demonstrate effectiveness in interpersonal and team communication skills.
- Demonstrate skills in written communications by writing clear and concise messages using plain English
- Describe the major principles of business management and their interrelationships
- Employ principles of effective oral communications and effectively facilitate meetings and groups
- Explain key concepts of organizational behaviour and the behaviour of individuals and groups in organizations
- Utilize effective problem solving techniques
Management Certificate Program Requirements
The program consists of three components: Core courses, Elective courses, and Professional Edge Seminars. Students may take courses in any order as long as they have the required prerequisite and they have up to five years to complete the 290 hours of study. Students may condense their studies by taking more than one course per term or participating in a full-time program.
To Graduate You Must:
1. Complete all Core courses (183 hours)
- Learning Techniques Seminar (3 hours)
- Business Fundamentals (36 hours)
- Effective Oral Communication (36 hours)
- Effective Written Communication (36 hours)
- Essential Skills For Managers (36 hours)
- Organizational Behaviour (36 hours)
2. Complete two Elective courses from the following list (72 hours)
- Accounting Fundamentals (36 hours)
- Effective Facilitation (36 hours)
- Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers (36 hours)
- Leadership Development (36 hours)
- Managing Conflict (36 hours)
- Marketing Fundamentals (36 hours)
- Principles of Human Resource Management (36 hours)
- Project Management l: Fundamentals (36 hours)
- Public Relations Fundamentals 1 (36 hours)
3. Complete five Professional Edge Seminars (35 hours)
Complete five one-day seminars (7 hours) or a combination of one- and two-day (14 hours) seminars for a total of 35 hours.*
*Note: The University Writing and Research seminar is a required Professional Edge seminar for all certificate and diploma students who do not hold an undergraduate degree.
Articulation for Credit
Graduates of the Management Certificate Program may be eligible for equivalent course credits towards an undergraduate degree at The University of Winnipeg.
To apply for this program or for more information please contact Mekala Wickramasinghe at 204.982.1143 or Karen Warkentin at 204.982.1144.