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Curriculum: MS in Product Management

Required Core Requirements

Code Title Hours
Fundamental Courses
ARTG 5600 Experience Design Studio 1: Principles 4
EMGT 6750 or PDM 6000 Advanced Product Management
or
Foundations of Product Management
3-4
INNO 6409 Innovation Portfolio Management 4
Experiential Courses
Complete one of the following:
1
ARTG 5540 Design and Product Management
EMGT 6760 Technical Product Management
INNO 6411 Product Innovation Management
PDM 6940 Product Analytics
Capstone
Complete one of the following:
 3-4
INNO 6410
Product Management Capstone (Product Management Capstone)
PDM 6980 Capstone

Concentration or Electives Option

  • Design-Driven Product Management — College of Arts, Media and Design
  • Product Analytics — College of Professional Studies
  • Product Innovation Management — D’Amore-McKim School of Business
  • Technical Product Management — College of Engineering
  • Electives Option — College of Professional Studies

Co-op (Optional)

Code Title Hours
Co-op Options for All
INT 6200 Experiential Project Preparation 1
Select one of the following:
COP 5002
COP 6945
COP 6946
Internship
Co-op Work Experience—Full Time
Global Co-op Work Experience—Full Time
0
Co-op Options for College of Engineering Only
ENCP 6100 Introduction to Cooperative Education 1
Select one of the following:
ENCP 6964
ENCP 6954
Co-op Work Experience
Co-op Work Experience – Half-Time
0

Program Credit/GPA Requirements

30 total semester hours required (Some concentrations may require additional hours)

Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Concentration in Design-Driven Product Management

Code Title Hours
Complete 16-17 semester hours from the following: 16-17
ARTG 5100 Information Design Studio 1: Principles
ARTG 5120 Research Methods for Design
ARTG 5310 Visual Cognition
ARTG 5320 Statistics for Design
ARTG 5610 Design Systems
ARTG 5620 Notational Systems for Experience
ARTG 5640 Prototyping for Experience Design
ARTG 5910 Human-Centered Design
ARTG 6310 Design for Behavior and Experience
ARTG 6460 Human-Centered AI
ARTG 6600 Experience Design Studio 2: Group and Interpersonal
CRTE 5010 Understanding Creative Technologies
CRTE 5030 Developing Creative Technologies
GSND 5110 Game Design and Analysis
GSND 5122 Business Models in the Game Industry
GSND 5130 Mixed Research Methods for Games
GSND 6320 Psychology of Play
GSND 6340 Biometrics of Design
JRNL 6341 Telling Your Story with Data

Concentration in Product Analytics

Code Title Hours
Complete 16 semester hours from the following: 16
AAI 6600 Applied Artificial Intelligence
AAI 6665 Generative Artificial Intelligence
ALY 6105 Introduction to Applied Statistics (Introduction to Applied Statistics)
ALY 6115 Foundations of Data Analytics (Foundations of Data Analytics)
ALY 6125 Intermediate Analytics (Intermediate Analytics)
ALY 6145 Communication and Visualization with Data (Communication and Visualization with Data)
ALY 6420 Introduction to Queries (Introduction to Queries)
ALY 6700 Decision Support and Business Intelligence (Decision Support and Business Intelligence)
PJM 6610 Foundations of Project Business Analysis (Foundations of Project Business Analysis)
PJM 6760 Principles of Agile Product Delivery and Project Management (Principles of Agile Product Delivery and Project Management)
PJM 6770 Advanced Agile Product Delivery and Project Management (Advanced Agile Product Delivery and Project Management)
RGA 6105 Introduction to Regulatory Compliance and Practice (Introduction to Regulatory Compliance and Practice)
RGA 6150 Regulatory Strategy for Product Development and Life-Cycle Management (Regulatory Strategy for Product Development and Life- Cycle Management)

Concentration in Product Innovation Management

Code Title Hours
Complete 16 semester hours from the following: 16
ACCT 6200 Financial Reporting and Managerial Decision Making 1
HRMG 6200 Managing People and Organizations
INFO 5100 and INFO 5101 Application Engineering and Development and Lab for INFO 5100
INFO 7245 Agile Software Development
INNO 6200 Enterprise Growth and Innovation
INNO 6217 Lean Innovation
INNO 6230 Platform Innovation
INNO 6318 Course INNO 6318
MISM 6200 Introduction to Business Analytics
MISM 6250 Course MISM 6250
MKTG 6200 Creating and Sustaining Customer Markets
MKTG 6210 Marketing Research
MKTG 6214 New Product Development
MKTG 6234 Marketing Analytics
STRT 6210 Course STRT 6210
STRT 6318 Strategic Planning for the Future

Concentration in Technical Product Management

Code Title Hours
Complete 16 semester hours from the following: 16
CS 6620 Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
EMGT 6225 Economic Decision Making
EMGT 6305 Financial Management for Engineers
EMGT 6700 Digital Product Design and Management
GE 5020 Engineering Product Design Methodology
GE 5030 Iterative Product Prototyping for Engineers
IE 5374 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering
IE 5640 Data Mining for Engineering Applications
IE 6600 Computation and Visualization for Analytics
IE 6700 Data Management for Analytics
IE 7374 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering

Electives Option

Code Title Hours
Complete 16-17 semester hours from the following: 16-17
AAI 6600 Applied Artificial Intelligence
AAI 6665 Generative Artificial Intelligence
ALY6105 Introduction to Applied Statistics (Introduction to Applied Statistics)
ALY6115 Foundations of Data Analytics (Foundations of Data Analytics)
ALY6125 Intermediate Analytics (Intermediate Analytics)
ALY6145 Communication and Visualization with Data (Communication and Visualization with Data)
ALY6420 Introduction to Queries (Introduction to Queries)
ALY6700 Decision Support and Business Intelligence (Decision Support and Business Intelligence)
ARTG 5100 Information Design Studio 1: Principles
ARTG 5120 Research Methods for Design
ARTG 5310 Visual Cognition
ARTG 5320 Statistics for Design
ARTG 5610 Design Systems
ARTG 5620 Notational Systems for Experience
ARTG 5640 Prototyping for Experience Design
ARTG 5910 Human-Centered Design
ARTG 6310 Design for Behavior and Experience
ARTG 6460 Human-Centered AI
ARTG 6600 Experience Design Studio 2: Group and Interpersonal
CRTE 5010 Understanding Creative Technologies
CRTE 5030 Developing Creative Technologies
GE 5020 Engineering Product Design Methodology
GE 5030 Iterative Product Prototyping for Engineers
GSND 5110 Game Design and Analysis
GSND 5122 Business Models in the Game Industry
GSND 5130 Mixed Research Methods for Games
GSND 6320 Psychology of Play
GSND 6340 Biometrics of Design
HRMG 6200 Managing People and Organizations
IE 5374 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering
IE 7374 Special Topics in Industrial Engineering
INFO 5100 and INFO 5101 Application Engineering and Development and lab for INFO 5100
INFO 7245 Agile Software Development
INNO 6230 Platform Innovation
JRNL 6341 Telling Your Story with Data
MISM 6200 Introduction to Business Analytics
MISM 6250 Course MISM 6250
MKTG 6200 Creating and Sustaining Customer Markets
MKTG 6210 Marketing Research
MKTG 6214 New Product Development
MKTG 6234 Marketing Analytics
PJM 6610 Foundations of Project Business Analysis
PJM 6760 Principles of Agile Product Delivery and Project Management (Principles of Agile Product Delivery and Project Management)
PJM 6770 Advanced Agile Product Delivery and Project Management (Advanced Agile Product Delivery and Project Management)
RGA 6105 Introduction to Regulatory Compliance and Practice (Introduction to Regulatory Compliance and Practice)
RGA 6150 Regulatory Strategy for Product Development and Life-Cycle Management (Regulatory Strategy for Product Development and Life-Cycle Management)

* Please note: this curriculum is for marketing purposes only, and is subject to change.