iMSM Program Requirements

To earn a Graduate Certificate as part of your iMSM, you must complete 12 credit hours and all coursework within the Graduate Certificate you wish to add to your academic record. To add a Graduate Certificate to your record, you must submit a Curriculum Change petition to the Graduate College by the deadline in the semester you wish to earn it. It is highly recommended that you submit this petition as soon as you register for the final course in the Graduate Certificate.  

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1. Login to the Graduate Student Portal using your NetID and password  
2. Under the "Forms and Resources" section, click on the "Graduate Student Petition" link and "Start a new petition"  
3. Select "Curriculum Change" and "Other" as your request type and complete all fields on the form  
4. Are you currently on an upcoming degree list? Select "Yes" or "No" to indicate if you have already applied to graduate from the iMSA. You can verify this by clicking on the “View Graduation Application” in the UIUC Self-Service “Graduation” section 
5. Enter the effective Term: Enter the term you wish to desire to add this to your academic record 
6. Select Curriculum Change Category: "Current doctoral or master's student adding a secondary certificate program curriculum"  
7. Add first certificate in the "New Degree Program" from the drop-down list  
8. Please provide a detailed explanation of your request.
   "Please add {Grad Cert} as the secondary Graduate Certificate”  
9. Click "continue" when you have completed these steps and to submit your petition.   

• Illinois Component: Introduction to management accounting as part of the firm’s information system, in terms of modern cost accounting and budgetary system for planning and controlling business operations.  
• Coursera Components: Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems and Analysis and Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions.
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 

• Illinois Component: Develops and integrates fundamental behavioral concepts and theory having administrative applications; initially focuses on the individual decision maker and ultimately includes interpersonal, organizational, and social structures and influences; and develops strategies and methods of research on behavioral applications in business. 
• Coursera Components: Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader and Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 
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• Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.  
• Coursera Components: Business Strategy and Corporate Strategy.
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 
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• Illinois Component: This is an introductory course in decision-making problems in production; includes the theoretical foundations for production management as well as the applications of decision-making techniques to production problems in the firm; and considers production processes, plant layout, maintenance, scheduling, quality control, and production control in particular.
• Coursera Components: Operations Management: Organization and Analysis and Operations Management: Quality and Supply Chain
  
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 
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• Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
• Coursera Components: Developing a Winning Marketing Strategy and Developing a Marketing Mix for Growth
  
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 

• Illinois Component: This course will introduce basic concepts needed to understand the financial managers’ decision-making process and help build a knowledge base in essential topics in modern finance. 
• Coursera Components: Introduction to Finance: The Basics and Introduction to Finance: The Role of Finance.
• 4 credit hours; 8 weeks length 
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• Illinois Component: A managerial perspective of the nature and role of accounting in organizational measurement, reporting and control processes.
• Coursera Components: Financial Accounting: Foundations and Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics 
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: Examines and analyzes the organization as a social system and the impact of its various components on work attitudes and behavior; topics include the development of organizational structures, organizational effectiveness, decision making and policy formulation, leadership, and change.
• Coursera Components: Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organization Structure and Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: Master techniques and tools used by project managers, identify critical behavior required of teams for managing projects, and be aware of potential conflicts and problems that can occur during a project’s lifestyle.
• Coursera Components: Project Initiation & Planning and Project Execution & Control 
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length
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• Illinois Component: This course introduces the fundamentals of cross-cultural management by describing the impact of culture on interpersonal processes in organizations, discussing how culture shapes decision-making, negotiation, leadership, teamwork, and organizational structure. Additionally, this course introduces the foundations for dealing with multiculturalism in the marketplace, discussing how culture impacts consumer behavior and how marketers can leverage these insights.
• Coursera Components: Global Impact: Cross-Cultural Management and Global Impact: Multiculturalism

• Illinois Component: Enables students to understand how globalization changes consumers at a psychological level and provides tools for imbuing brands with cultural meanings that can resonate with global consumers. Examines the ethical bases of corporate decision making using critical ethical analysis, educate and create sensitivity about ethical issues in business.
• Coursera Components: Global Marketing: Cultural Frameworks and Global Marketing: Building Iconic Brands
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: Understand the forces of globalization and the importance of cross-cultural management in the relationship of a multinational organization; how firms adapt to, react towards, and shape the global economy.
• Coursera Components: Global Strategy I: How the Global Economy Works and Global Strategy II: Doing Business in the Global Economy
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: MBA 561 welcomes you to the world of business analytics by exploring examples of how data analytics has improved business outcomes for large and small organizations. The course then continues by introducing you a powerful data analytic language, R, and RStudio, the integrated development environment (IDE) to code with R. You will be also introduced to notebooks, and dashboards, with which you can learn to communicate code and analytic results with other people. You will also learn some data manipulation skills to prepare your data so that they can be analyzed with visualizations and machine learning algorithms.
• Coursera Components: Introduction to Business Analytics with R
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: Introduction to the science of business analytics while casting a keen eye toward the artful use of numbers found in the digital space.
• Coursera Components: Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data
• 2 Credit Hours; 4 weeks in length

• Illinois Component: This course provides a non-technical perspective on and methods for monetizing, managing, and measuring information as if it were any other kind of corporate asset.
• Coursera Components: Infonomics I and Infonomics II
• 4 Credit Hours; 8 weeks in length
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