The core curriculum is designed to provide you with a deep and broad foundation that supports concentration course work and serves you throughout your career. Students are required to take all of the following courses.
MS in Construction Curriculum
DEGREE/CURRICULUM STRUCTURE
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Degree Core Requirements
Core Curriculum: Tier I
Tier I courses lay the groundwork for understanding the basic underpinnings of the building industry, including such topics as understanding methods and materials, construction practices, as well as legal principles and contracts common to the construction industry, company expenses, cost control, and cash flow. Students are required to take all of the following courses.
Core Curriculum: Tier II
Tier II courses build upon the foundation laid in the first tier, examining the various approaches to quantifying and estimating specific project plans, the process of tracking and managing projects, learning the criteria for managing a safe construction site, as well as developing the project skills for planning, scheduling, and control Students are required to take all of the following courses.
Core Curriculum: Tier III
Students are required to take all of the following courses. In Tier III,the emphasis is on the detailed tools and techniques for running a construction organization, while also acquiring the skills and the approaches needed for dispute resolution.
Electives
Students select courses (a) from the list below, (b) with permission from the Program Director, from a course from the M.S. in Real Estate or M.S. in Real Estate Development degree program. Please note that not all courses are offered every semester.
- CONM1-GC1060 The Development Process 3
- CONM1-GC2130 Labor Relations in Construction 1.5
- CONM1-GC3024 Real Estate Development & Construction Finance 1.5
- CONM1-GC3250 Green Building & Sustainable Development 3
- DEVE1-GC1020 Planning & Design Issues in Development 3
- DEVE1-GC1035 Real Estate Finance 3
- DEVE1-GC2110 Infrastructure & Urban Development 3
- DEVE1-GC3005 Managing Building Systems & Operations 3
- DEVE1-GC3010 Commercial Lease Analysis 3
- DEVE1-GC3015 Affordable Housing Finance and Development 3
- REAL1-GC1005 Principls of Real Estate Accounting & Taxation 3
- REAL1-GC3120 Developing Residential Multi-Family Reall Estate 3
- REAL1-GC3190 Seminar in Post- Catastrophe Reconstructn 3
- CONM1-GC1040 Project Management 3
- CONM1-GC3260 BIM for Virtual Design and Construction 3
- CONM1-GC3911 Professional Internship .5-3
Capstone
The capstone course encompasses and applies all prior course work, and requires the production of a professional-quality project analysis from initiation to completion. In each case, actual industry data and resources are researched and employed in the creation of a project. Students are required to take the following course.
Admissions Criteria
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Financing Your education
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