The program has a total of 13 modules including Research Project. However, a student shall have 12 modules. For semester one, 6 modules are compulsory and 6 modules for semester two.
Semester One (1)
DPPM 101 Fundamentals of Project Planning, Design and Implementation
By the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Do project identification
- Set specific project objectives
- Select the right materials for project implementation
- Identify implementation problems and possible solutions
- Organize and manage the project
DPPM 102 Fundamentals of Project Monitoring and Evaluation
By the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Understand the fundamental principles monitoring and evaluation principles
- Grasp tools, research significance in a programme or project context
- Understand formative and summative basis for evaluation including the typology of evaluation
DPPM 103 Project Finance & Risk Management
By the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Understand the meaning of Project Financing
- Focus of project financing.
- Grasp classical Vs the contemporary understanding of project financing.
- Understand development of the project finance thought.
- Understand Features of Project finance.
- Understand Project Finance versus other forms of public financing
DPPM 104 Project Statistical Research Methods
At the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Distinguish between the terms sample and population
- Describe methods of collecting data
- Distinguish between various scales of measurements
- Distinguish between continuous and discrete variables.
- Present the data in diagrams.
DPPM 108 Project Planning & Control Management
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
- Principles of project control and management
- Systematic approach to project control and management
- Deployment of tools and skills in controlling and managing projects
- Embedding voice of customers and monitoring process and product quality for project management
DPPM 106 Statistical Computing
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Define and know the importance of statistics in project planning.
- Perform Data Cleaning and Validation
- Transform Data: Data restructuring techniques
- DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION
- Statistical Analysis in SPSS
- Data Visualization
Semester Two (2)
DPPM 107 Gender & Development Issues in Projects
By the end of the module, students will be able to:
- Understand the mainstream gender in project management, monitoring and evaluation
- Execute gender analysis is framework
- Integrate part of project baseline studies and evaluations
- Interrogate the creation of gender project indicators
- Carry out data collection methodologies for gender - disaggregated data and participatory data
- Explore the evolution of concepts of gender and development
DPPM 105 Project Total Quality Management
At the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Define the term quality
- Explain the basic concepts in quality
- Outline the quality characteristics of products and services
- Explain the meaning of total quality management
- Trace the evolution of total quality management
DPPM 109 Monitoring and Evaluation Management
At the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Define a project
- Define the project management cycle
- Describe the major stages of the project management cycle.
- Explain the element of a project document
- Define the terms Project Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Explain why there is need for project monitoring and evaluation.
DPPM 110 Environmental Impact Assessment in Projects
At the end of this course the learner should be able to:
- Explain the meaning of Environment, ecology and ecosystem as applied in project planning and management.
- Describe the role of Environmental Impact Assessment within projects in Zimbabwe (your country).
- Underline the historical development of environmental education
- Explain the relationship between environment, development and population growth
- State the socio-economic benefits of environmental conservation and issues of global peace
DPPM 111 Social Change & Community Development
By the end of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Describe the main contemporary theories of social change and discuss their importance in our understanding of social development
- Describe relationship of social change theories and African development
- Discuss the driving forces in social development
- Define rural-urban dichotomy and outline the determinants and consequences of rural-urban migration
- Discuss gender issues in social change and community development
DPPM 112 Entrepreneurship & Project Development
DPPM 113 Research Project (Mini-Dissertation)
Entry Requirements
- Applicants should possess at least 5 Ordinary level subjects including English Language and or A level.
- A certificate in project planning and monitoring and evaluation.
- Diploma and or degree will be an added advantage.
- Work experience in a relevant field will be an added advantage