791-220 Project Management (NRM)

Credit Points

Coordinator

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

This subject is designed to enable the student to:

• investigate and describe the fundamental aspects of human behaviour so that supervision and team work are managed efficiently and effectively;
• recognise and justify the purpose of management;
• define what projects are and identify the key aspects of a project;
• identify the variables within a system and describe how they operate;
• suggest what the connection between projects and management is and explain how they complement each other;
• apply the skills of networking to project management, and calculate the critical path, within a project;
• participate in field work that requires the logical formation of a project.

The content includes: The content of project management consists of a section on organisational behaviour and administration, a section on project management techniques and finally a section on task management techniques.

Assessment

Construction project and a human management project (60%); two hour examination (40%).