CIP Code: 52.2001

ctcLink Plan Code: CONCMBAS

Total Credits: 90

1. Surveying, Earthwork, and Infrastructure

• CONST 300 Surveying, Earthwork, and Infrastructure (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Construction Managers need an understanding of surveying techniques to stake building layout, understand the cut and fill needed for the earthwork and infrastructure requirements to set up utilities and pave roads. 

2. Construction Industry Relationship Building

• CONST 310 Construction Industry Relationship Building 5 credits

• Course Purpose: You need to gain knowledge on how to build relationships within industry stakeholders and the surrounding community to manage, estimate, schedule, negotiate contracts, settle claims, and succeed in your project.  

3. Social Science

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• BUS& 101 Introduction to Business (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: This course will help prepare students for specific business and construction courses. The class offers an overview of the globalized nature of today’s business and its major functions of operations and finance needed to manage a construction project. 

• ECON 110 Survey of Economics (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: As a construction management professional you need to have knowledge of supply and demand of products and the skills to determine prices in a market economy to anticipate economic changes which could impact how you develop project estimates, plan, and manage projects. 

• ECON& 201 Microeconomics (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn about the allocation of resources, supply, and demand, labor, capital markets and international trade. This is essential knowledge when developing estimates. 

• ECON& 202 Macroeconomics (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Construction is an indicator of the economy doing well or not doing well. Having knowledge of the US economy will help you plan for employment opportunities and dips. Understanding macroeconomics also aids in keeping business afloat by creating accurate 3–5-year projections for resources and projects. 

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4. Concrete and Foundation

• CONST 320 Concrete and Foundation (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will become familiar with concrete types used in commercial buildings and the type of foundations required for typical building sites and environmental surroundings.  

5. Communications and Conflict Resolution

• CONST 330 Communications and Conflict Resolution (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn communication skills needed for being a manager on a project and how to minimize and resolve conflict with stakeholders.  

6. Introduction to Ethics

• PHIL 150 Introduction to Ethics (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Construction Managers should be guided in all their relationships by the highest standard of integrity and honesty with their ethical practices, professional excellence, responsibility to the public and should ethically represent the best interests of the owner with our standards. 

7. Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Suppression (MEPF)

• CONST 340 Mechanical, Elec, Plumb, and Fire Suppression 5 credits

• Course Purpose: You will learn to be well versed in drawings and specifications in mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire suppression to help manage clashes with other specialty contracts and contractors.  

8. Budgeting and Accounting for CM Projects

• CONST 350 Budgeting and Accounting for CM Projects (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn how to manage and set up budgets from estimates, maintain projected costs and how to accurately account for profit projection. 

9. Organizational Communication

• CMST 330 Organizational Communication (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: In this course, you learn how to use communication practices to effectively navigate internal and external systems to resolve corporate dilemmas and project-based construction project opportunities and concerns. 

10. Virtual Construction Modeling

• CONST 400 Virtual Construction Modeling (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)\Building Information Modeling (BIM) are introduced with basic modeling tools and platforms. You will gain an understanding of how these construction management processes improve the coordination and control of a construction project.  

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11. Means and Methods II

• CONST 410 Means and Methods II (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn the technical aspects of construction systems, including the procedures and methods for masonry, steel, wood, and concrete construction. The latest trends in construction materials are also covered. 

12. Critical Thinking

• PHIL& 115 Critical Thinking (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: To introduce students to logic and critical thinking emphasizing real-life examples, natural language applications and informal logical fallacies. 

13. Estimating II

• CONST 420 Estimating II (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: This course will expand student skills in new topics of construction estimating and bidding. It will focus on the bidding procedures with students from the receipt of the bidding documents, through work breakdown, work qualifications, pricing and bid submittal for several types of contracts.  

14. Planning and Scheduling II

• CONST 430 Planning and Scheduling II (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: The course covers planning and scheduling with an emphasis on the work breakdown structure, work breakdown structure quality, principles, and concepts of best practices for scheduling and developing a project schedule.  

15. Ethnic Thought and Culture

• HUM 106 Ethnic Thought and Culture (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Students will be provided a multicultural studies approach to the diversity, complexity and contradictions of the American ethnic experience as expressed in the arts and humanities for managing construction projects.  

16. Virtual Construction Integration with Estimating and Scheduling

• CONST 440 Virtual Construction Integration (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn to use Building Information Management (BIM) tools and platforms to manage, estimate, schedule, and control construction projects. 

17. Internship or Capstone

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• CONST 460 Construction Management Capstone (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn about project organizations, documentation and control methods utilized to manage all facets of a project from start to completion.  

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

• Course Purpose: You will obtain construction management work experience in your chosen area of interest. Further opportunity to secure a job at the company you are interning for. 

18. Natural Science with Lab

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• GEOL& 101 Introduction to Physical Geology (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Understanding of soils and rocks helps with selecting appropriate types of building foundations, building sites and environmental processes needed for the construction project. 

• GEOL& 110 Environmental Geology (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: Understanding the Earth with emphasis on geologic hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, and flooding. You will learn about resources such as energy, water and materials and the disposal of waste and pollution to keep sites safe and become a leader in taking care of the environment.  

• PHYS& 110 Physics for Non-Science Majors (5 credits)

• Course Purpose: You will learn the physical principles that will impact the construction project.

Total Credits: 90

CIP Code: 52.2001

ctcLink Plan Code: CONCMBAS

Program Outcomes

1. Professionalism: Model professionalism in the construction industry through ethics and advocacy; team building; leadership; and mentorship in the construction industry. 
2. Safety and Accident Prevention: Evaluate the importance of jobsite safety and research strategies that can be used to build a culture of safety. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 
5. Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools. 
6. Sustainability: Assess concepts related to running sustainable projects in order to build sustainable business processes.