CONST 470 Const. Management Work Based Learning (5 Credits)

1. Describe the full scope of duties and responses performed by personnel found in a construction management office, in time management project controls, resource management etc.
2. Assess the significance of organizational “chain of command” in responding to accountability and community safety.
3. Communicate in ways that minimize conflict and maximize clarity.
4. Support the worksite through professional actions of adaptability, ethical behavior, advocacy, leadership, and mentoring.
5. Perform expected duties of the assigned position as outlined in expectations provided by your supervisor.
6. Collaborate at regular intervals with the supervision team to further develop skills, realign expectations and duties, or change responsibilities.
7. Work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.to understand how a construction project is managed.
8. Research employment opportunities and application processes of your selected specialty in the construction management industry.
9. Relate prior academic theory to current work experience.

• Professionalism: Model professionalism in the construction industry through ethics and advocacy; team building; leadership; and mentorship in the construction industry.
• Safety and Accident Prevention: Evaluate the importance of jobsite safety and research strategies that can be used to build a culture of safety.
• Communication: Compose, implement, and assess the efficacy of communications tools used in the construction industry to disseminate technical and professional business information to a diverse audience.
• Analysis and Problem Solving: Analyze projects through the application of mathematics, logic, and technology to solve problems in construction documents; materials and methods; estimating; budgets; and scheduling.
• Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools.
• Sustainability: Assess concepts related to running sustainable projects in order to build sustainable business processes.

Core Abilities

• Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
• Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
• Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
• Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.