Collat School of Business

Programs

Human Resource Management

HR is both the glue that holds a business together and the grease that keeps its gears turning smoothly. It is the management of people; caring for their health and safety, managing their financial investment in the company, and fostering their growth within the organization and beyond. The HR Management coursework will give you a well-rounded foundation in the human resource management sector to keep your organization's most valuable assets — its people — working as smoothly as you do.

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  • AI for HR Professionals Certificate Course
    This 5-week fully online, mentored course provides HR practitioners with the strategies to scale capacity and expertise using generative AI. Learners will gain hands-on experience applying AI to key people operations workflows, utilizing tools like ChatGPT Plus and Zapier to automate tasks and create custom assistants. You’ll complete the course with the confidence to deploy compliant, ethical AI initiatives that boost efficiency and deliver measurable business value.
    Price:$2,300 (Discounts Available)
    Estimated Length:5 weeks
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Employee Experience
    Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are enhancing the employee experience by increasing employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity. In Artificial Intelligence and the Employee Experience, you will explore how AI provides support and presents challenges for the workplace journey, including personalized onboarding plans, performance management assistance, individualized learning and development opportunities, AI-assisted workflow, privacy issues, and bias. The course includes an ongoing scenario, with your role being an HR professional who figures out how to use AI tools to create the optimal employee experience.
    Price:$105
    Access Time:90 days
    Estimated Length:4 hours
    Credits: 4 ATD CI Credits / 4 HRCI Credits / 0.40 IACET CEU Credits / 4 SHRM Credits
  • Human Resource Management Certificate
    The 100% online, self-paced certificate program will give you a well-rounded foundation in the human resource management sector to keep your organization’s most valuable assets – its people – working as smoothly as you do. HR is both the glue that holds a business together and the grease that keeps its gears turning smoothly. It is the management of people: caring for their health and safety, managing their financial investment in the company, and fostering their growth within the organization and beyond. Every challenge is different when you work in HR, so being prepared to offer assistance in a variety of areas is essential.
    Price:$429
    Access Time:365 days
    Estimated Length:21 hours
    Credits:2.1 IACET CEUs / 6 PMI PDUs / 21 HRCI Credits / 19.5 SHRM PDCs
  • Managing the Hybrid Workforce Certificate (HRCI)
    The 100% online, self-paced certificate program prepares HR professionals to manage hybrid workforces, especially during times of transition and as business needs change. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations large and small quickly adapted to remote work settings and alternative workplace solutions to protect employees' health and safety and maintain business continuity. What began as a necessary and seemingly temporary change soon prompted organizations to rethink their work environments and workspace needs entirely. HR professionals play a key role in leveraging the benefits of work settings, remote and in-person, to create solutions that suit the unique needs of their organizations.
    Price:$199
    Access Time:270 days
    Estimated Length:9 hours
    Credits:IACET CEUs: 0.9, HRCI: 9 (Type: General: 9)

Management

Our management courses help you build the skills to develop a management style that fits your personality and goals. From effective negotiation tactics to navigating business ethics, the skills taught in our management courses span all industries and build a foundation for management success.

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  • Customer Experience Leadership with AI Certificate Program
    Build a customer experience strategy that strengthens loyalty, relationships, and organizational performance. In this fully online, self-paced certificate program, participants learn to assess customer experience maturity, map the customer journey, use data to improve decisions, encourage customer-focused innovation, build a customer-first culture, and lead organizational change. Participants finish with a personalized Strategic CX Organizational Plan and professional CX portfolio.
    Price:$4,995
    Estimated Length:8 weeks
  • Certificate in Management Skills
    Successful managers know the importance of building strong relationships with their team members. This certificate equips both new and experienced managers with the skills and resources necessary to foster strong connections, lead change, and resolve potential conflicts. Whether operating in an in-person office environment or a remote work setting, managers will learn practical ways to better coach and motivate their teams. Through interactive exercises, videos, self-assessments, and case studies, the self-paced courses included in this certificate provide opportunities to practice and apply key management skills.
    Price:$739
    Access Time:365 days
    Estimated Length:42 hours
    Credits:4.2 IACET CEUs / 39 PMI PDUs / 39 HRCI Credits / 39 SHRM PDCs
  • Nonprofit Management Certificate
    The 100% online, self-paced certificate program introduces learners to key current management issues for nonprofit organizations.
    Price:$739
    Access Time:365 days
    Estimated Length:44 hours
    Credits:4.4 IACET CEUs / 35 HRCI Credits / 44 SHRM PDCs / 23 CFRE Points

Operations

Whether you work in manufacturing or service, our operations courses provide the knowledge needed to improve quality, boost customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and streamline operations. You'll be introduced to the tools, techniques, and best practices that are proven effective in any business environment.

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  • Logistics and Distribution Management
    This course explores the fundamental concepts and ideas of logistics and distribution management. It delves into the various logistics information management systems, analyzes their financial aspects and technological influences, and explains how to manage and measure their performance. This course is divided into modules that explain logistics management, inventory management, and warehousing and distribution. Throughout these modules, course participants will review and distinguish between inbound logistics, outbound logistics, reverse logistics, and third-party logistics; explore the tools and techniques for tracking and valuing inventory, including ABC analysis; and learn the functions of packaging and methods for transporting goods through simple and complex distribution channels.
    Price:$149
    Access Time:180 days
    Estimated Length:6 hours
    Credits:.6 IACET CEUs /6 PMI PDUs / 6 SHRM PDCs 
  • Operations Management
    This course explores the fundamental concepts and theories practitioners will need to successfully guide operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Modules in this self-paced course introduce key foundational material, describe the interplay of supply chains and demand management, and explain the role that processes and process management play in robust operations. Specific tools, techniques, and methodologies (including Lean, total quality management, and Six Sigma) are presented to show their applicability to operational strategies.
    Price:$299
    Access Time:180 days
    Estimated Length:10 hours
    Credits:1.0 IACET CEUs / 10 PMI PDUs / 10 HRCI Credits / 10 SHRM PDCs 
  • Supply Chain Management Basics
    The 100% online, self-paced course introduces the core concepts and components of supply chain management, including supplier evaluation, logistics, inventory management, and other supply chain practices. As a supply chain grows in complexity, and companies increasingly source products and services from a more diverse and global set of suppliers, the job of managing the processes that ensures the steady and reliable flow of components and inputs has never been more difficult.
    Price:$299
    Access Time:180 days
    Estimated Length:10 hours
    Credits:1.0 IACET CEUs / 10 PMI PDUs / 10 SHRM PDCs
    Discount:UAB employee/student, veteran or company with 3 or more students in the same class receive a 20% discount with code BlazerStudent.
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Students in UAB's Master of Accounting and Bachelor of Science in Accounting programs have ample opportunity to engage with the surrounding Birmingham community through real world business projects, volunteer service, and networking events. The program works closely with the UAB Regions Institute for Financial Education opens a new website (RIFE) located on the first floor of the Collat School of Business where students volunteer as tax preparers through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site within RIFE.

Community Engagement

Career Development

Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/courses/2295/operations-management
Scholarships: no
Credits: 1.0 IACET CEUs / 10 PMI PDUs / 10 HRCI Credits / 10 SHRM PDCs 
Access Time: 180 days
Estimated Length: 10 hours
Price: $299
Course Description: This course explores the fundamental concepts and theories practitioners will need to successfully guide operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Modules in this self-paced course introduce key foundational material, describe the interplay of supply chains and demand management, and explain the role that processes and process management play in robust operations. Specific tools, techniques, and methodologies (including Lean, total quality management, and Six Sigma) are presented to show their applicability to operational strategies.
Course Title: Operations Management
Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/courses/2285/logistics-and-distribution-management
Scholarships: no
Credits: .6 IACET CEUs /6 PMI PDUs / 6 SHRM PDCs 
Access Time: 180 days
Estimated Length: 6 hours
Price: $149
Course Description: This course explores the fundamental concepts and ideas of logistics and distribution management. It delves into the various logistics information management systems, analyzes their financial aspects and technological influences, and explains how to manage and measure their performance. This course is divided into modules that explain logistics management, inventory management, and warehousing and distribution. Throughout these modules, course participants will review and distinguish between inbound logistics, outbound logistics, reverse logistics, and third-party logistics; explore the tools and techniques for tracking and valuing inventory, including ABC analysis; and learn the functions of packaging and methods for transporting goods through simple and complex distribution channels.
Course Title: Logistics and Distribution Management
Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/suites/19731/certificate-in-management-skills?mode=purchase
Scholarships: no
Credits: 4.2 IACET CEUs / 39 PMI PDUs / 39 HRCI Credits / 39 SHRM PDCs
Access Time: 365 days
Estimated Length: 42 hours
Price: $739
Course Description: Successful managers know the importance of building strong relationships with their team members. This certificate equips both new and experienced managers with the skills and resources necessary to foster strong connections, lead change, and resolve potential conflicts. Whether operating in an in-person office environment or a remote work setting, managers will learn practical ways to better coach and motivate their teams. Through interactive exercises, videos, self-assessments, and case studies, the self-paced courses included in this certificate provide opportunities to practice and apply key management skills.
Course Title: Certificate in Management Skills
Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/courses/305/effective-business-writing?mode=purchase
Scholarships: no
Credits: .5 IACET CEUs /5 PMI PDUs /5 HRCI Credits / 5 SHRM PDCs 
Access Time: 90 days
Estimated Length: 5 hours
Price: $129
Course Description: The ability to write clearly and directly is highly prized in most organizations. Well-written emails and documents can help you earn respect among your peers. Poorly written emails and documents can detract from success at all levels. The ideas, techniques, and checklists in this introductory-level course apply to all forms of business writing: memos, reports, brochures, proposals, presentations, catalogs, and websites. This course will also teach how to revise for wordiness, unnecessary phrases, redundancy, and jargon, and the appropriate use of email in an organizational setting.
Course Title: Effective Business Writing
Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/suites/19767/certificate-in-leadership?mode=purchase
Scholarships: no
Credits: 2 IACET CEUs / 20 PMI PDUs / 20 HRCI Credits  / 20 SHRM PDCs 
Access Time: 365 days
Estimated Length: 20 hours
Discount: UAB employee/student, veteran, or company with 3 or more students in the same class receive a 20% discount with code BlazerStudent.
Price: $249
Course Description: What is leadership and why is it important? How does a leader encourage change without triggering fearful resistance? What are the key elements to leading an effective team? What is the role of charisma in leadership? How can a leader achieve work-life balance? This suite of courses addresses all of these questions and many more, and offer advice on leadership that can help you stand out as a leader among your peers. Video segments introduce successful leaders who discuss such issues as how leaders become leaders, leadership ethics, and the differences between leaders, managers, and administrators.
Course Title: Certificate in Leadership
Course Link: https://catalog.mindedge.com/uab/suites/19775/certificate-in-business-communications?mode=purchase
Scholarships: no
Learner Satisfaction: 98%
Credits: 2.5 IACET CEUs / 25 PMI PDUs / 25 HRCI Credits / 25 SHRM PDCs
Access Time: 365 days
Estimated Length: 25 hours
Price: $349
Course Description: The 100% online, self-paced course teaches techniques, interactive exercises, and checklists that will help individuals communicate clearly and concisely in written and oral formats.  From clarifying and structuring your ideas to designing the PowerPoint slides that will best complement them, this certificate program will help you create presentations and workplace documents that inform and persuade.
Course Title: Business Communications Certificate

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