BLS in MIS minor

[dfrecore]

So, if you're not taking the BLS an Project Management minor, you should or should not take the Sophia.org PM course?  Does it conflict with anything?  If someone has done the course, can they just ask UMPI to not evaluate it or tell them they want to take the course with them again?

Sophia's class is not the PMI method for project management. UMPI follows PMI's methodology. Intro to Project Management at UMPI is needed for the UL PM courses which are projects following the format and template you create in the intro class. If you don't take the intro class and learn the format and create your template, you have to learn that for the 2 400 level courses and these are BIG projects for the Final Assessment. I took intro to pm at CSU Global and still requested to take UMPI's course because I thought I would learn MS Project but I didn't, but I did learn more about pm from the course. Little did I know I was learning the format and template I would need later. I was not a PM minor then. I was an MIS minor then and added PM after taking the intro course. 

My recommendation to take Intro to PM at UMPI has nothing to do with evaluating a PM course. It does not conflict with anything. It has to do with making the Final Assessment MUCH easier thus faster. If you have to learn the format and create the template - which you won't know if you did it correctly until you submit your rough draft and it comes back - then you will be spending a great deal of time on those 2 courses which are required for the PM minor.

Honestly, sometimes the UMPI threads feel like listening to a (long-winded) politician, where they answer the question they wish they had been asked, and not the ones which were actually asked.

Finding out from a person who has actually taken the course why you might want to take it at UMPI rather than Sophia is actually very helpful.  Just a "don't take it at Sophia" is not enough info to go from.  Just because it doesn't duplicate something does not mean that you WANT to take it.