Steps to Secure the Certificate
The courses for the certificate may be completed in any order, but we recommend the following sequencing.
- Complete TMP X111/X101
- Note: the cost of the certificate ($1,250) is paid when you register for and enroll in TMP X101 through PaCE. Please register here.
- Enrollment in or completion of TMP X101 gives students priority for admission to other TMP courses during the add/drop period.
- Complete either TMP 120: Strategy or TMP 122: Entrepreneurship
- Complete three electives
- If you took one of your electives from the list of approved non-TMP courses, please fill out the linked Airtable form.
Once you have completed all of the above steps, you just need to complete a certificate release form with PaCE, which gives them permission to issue you your certificate. Please note that if you do not complete this form, PaCE cannot issue your certificate.
All of the following classes can be taken in any order:
Required courses (6 units)
- TMP X101* - Introduction to Technology Management (2 units, register through PaCE)
*Previously known as TMP X111 before Summer 2025
Plus one of the following:
- TMP 120 - Fundamentals of Business Strategy (4 units)
- TMP 122: Entrepreneurship (4 units)
Elective courses (12 units)
Choose three courses of the following:
- TMP 120: Fundamentals of Business Strategy (if TMP 122 was taken as a required course)
- TMP 122: Entrepreneurship (if TMP 120 was taken as a required course)
- TMP 124: Principles of Marketing
- TMP 125: Principles of Finance
- TMP 127: Understanding and Managing Technology Organization
- TMP 135: New Product Development
- TMP 149: Creating a Market-Tested Business Model
- TMP 191 AI: AI and Business
- TMP 191 FM: Investment and Financial Management
- TMP 191 L: Leadership
- TMP 191 N: Negotiations
- TMP 191 SP: Sport Business Strategy and Innovation
- TMP 191 VC: Venture Capital and Private Equity
- TMP 191AA-ZZ: Any Other Special Topics in Business Management courses
One of your three electives may come from the following approved courses offered by other departments:
- ANTH 110. Science Technology and Society
- COMM 122. Organizational Communication
- COMM 131. Organizational Communication: A Global Perspective
- COMM 138. Advertising Literacy
- COMM 149. Communication and Organizational Culture
- COMM 152. Communication & Organizational Membership
- COMM 160DM. Consumer Behavior in a Digital World
- COMM 163. Diffusion of Innovations
- COMM 166. Marketing Communication
- COMM 187. Data Science in Communication
- CMPSC 165A. Artificial Intelligence
- CMPSC 165B. Machine Learning
- CMPSC 184. Mobile Application Development
- CMPSC 185. Human-Computer Interaction
- ECON 106. Managerial Economics
- ECON 116A. Industrial Organization Principles
- ECON 134A. Financial Management
- ECON 134C. Behavioral Finance
- ECON 137A. Managerial Accounting
- ECON 174. Negotiations
- ECE 157B. Artificial Intelligence in Design and Test Automation
- ENGL 146AAZZ. Literature of Technology
- ENGL 148AAZZ. Society, Culture, and Information
- HIST 109T. Machines, People, & Politics: Histories of Modern Technologies
- LING 170. Language in Social Interaction
- PHIL 100F. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
- PHIL 124A. Philosophy of Science
- PSY 102. Introduction to Social Psychology
- PSY 122. Motivation
- PSY 140. Social Influence
- PSY 147. Intergroup Relations
- PSY 152. Social Cognition
- PSY 154. Cultural Psychology
- SOC 130SG. Sociology of Globalization
- SOC 134. Social Movements
- PSTAT 100. Data Science Concepts and Analysis
- PSTAT 134. Statistical Data Science
- PSTAT 135. Big Data Analytics
- WRIT 107A. Writing for Accounting Economics
- WRIT 107B. Business and Administrative Writing
- WRIT 161. Digital Storytelling
Academic requirements
- All courses must be completed within five years
- Students must maintain a B average across all certificate course requirements, and earn no less than a 'C' in any particular course.