The Advanced Certificate in Corporate Finance is designed to allow students who have already earned a graduate degree the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in this specific field. Students who have already earned a master's in an unrelated field would acquire the necessary knowledge to enhance their role as corporate finance professionals. This Advanced Certificate program is designed to accommodate those who feel the need for academic advancement for personal or professional development in the area of corporate finance.

• FIN 6212 - Financial Management
• FIN 6313 - Global Corporate Finance
• FIN 6321 - Financial Analysis and Valuation
• FIN 6323 - Global Investment Analysis
• FIN 6327 - Corporate Financial Policy

The Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Management is designed to allow students who have already earned a graduate degree the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in this growing field. Students will gain an understanding of how financial, ethical, and social consequences of a rapidly changing and diverse global economic environment affects healthcare related issues.

• ACC 6243 - Health Care Management Accounting
• FIN 6390 - Health Care Finance
• MGT 6439 - Health Care Delivery System
• MGT 6543 - Health Law, Public Policy & Ethics
• MGT 6535 - Integrated Health Care Management

The Advanced Certificate in Human Resource Management is designed for individuals seeking to enhance or advance their careers, for those pursuing a career change or promotion, or for managers planning to pursue certification in the human resource profession. Topics covered include: labor relations, compensation benefits, conflict management, employment law, training and development, ethical regulations, and organizational leadership.

In addition to serving as an excellent professional development opportunity, the certificate program provides the additional benefit of preparing for the professional human resource certification exam sponsored by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

• MGT 6302 - Workforce Management for Human Resource Professionals
• MGT 6307 - The Legal and Ethical Regulation of the Employment Environment
• MGT 6304 - Organizational Life: Managing Individual Group Behavior
• MGT 6375 - Compensation & Benefits
• MGT 6204 - Excellence in Organizations: Behavior, Leadership, and Quality

The Advanced Certificate in Marketing is ideal for executives, middle managers, and entrepreneurs seeking to further develop their marketing skills and learn the latest marketing trends and techniques. The course of study provides advanced examination of four of the critical components for successful marketing in our global economy: marketing management, the importance of the services sector, the requirement for integrated communications, and marketing globalization.

• MKT 6252 - Marketing Management
• MKT 6362 - Integrated Marketing Communications
• MKT 6363 - Global Marketing Strategies
• MKT 6364 - Services Marketing

The Advanced Certificate in Project Management supports Dowling's aim of providing our graduate students with an education that meets the needs of our students and our other major stakeholder: local industry. Project management is a recognized field in its own right, rather than an activity undertaken by any manager. Project managers are required to master many different aspects of the industry in which they work, requiring a multi-faceted and widely educated individual. The Advanced Certificate in Project Management offers a curriculum in which students can gain the knowledge and tools to manage complex projects that are completed on time, within budget, and meet the needs of the organization.

Students will study the five distinct areas of project management: initializing processes, planning processes, executing processes, controlling processes, and closing processes. Upon successful completion of the courses listed below students will be able to devise and maintain a detailed project; plan to accomplish the business needs that the project was undertaken to address; determine and coordinate appropriate human, financial, and technical resources to carry out the plan; and create an assessment process that ensures the project objectives are accomplished.

• MGT 6350 - Project Management
• MGT 6351 - Supply Chain Management
• MGT 6352 - Risk Management
• MGT 6371 - Total Quality Management Tools

The Advanced Certificate in Information Systems Management prepares students to thrive in today's technology-driven environment. In the current business world, every manager is an information systems manager. Regardless of one's industry or position in a company, data and information are the keys to success and growth. With coursework covering the latest technological trends, students will be well-versed in the tools of the information trade. Additional courses introduce students to the other topics surrounding the use of information technology such as ethical issues and organizational adoption.

• CIS 6333 - Information Systems Analysis for Managers
• CIS 6340 - Data Management Technologies for Managers
• CIS 6346 - Enterprise Technologies for Managers
• CIS 6364 - Advanced IT Management

The Advanced Certificate in Sport and Entertainment Event Management recognizes the need of business professionals in this new world economy. This certificate will allow students to develop an in-depth understanding of management issues, challenges, and approaches within one of these fields. Within each of the specialized courses (12 credits) an assignment will be included where the student will enter into the focus industry and select a real-world problem. The student paper will present the problem, the analysis of the industry and the company, and the recommended solutions. Students will graduate with four applied papers that can be used in a portfolio for a job search or as a reference for future industry-related assignments.

• MKT 6325 - Sports and Entertainment Law
• MKT 6326 - Sports and Entertainment Management and Organizational Behavior
• MKT 6327 - Media and Public Relations for the Sport and Entertainment
• MKT 6328 - Venue Management for Sports and Entertainment Events