NEW CERTIFICATIONS AND DEGREES
UNDERGRADUATE/
GRADUATE SOFT SKILLS
CERTIFICATION
The Undergraduate or Graduate Certification in Soft
Skills is ideal for Amberton students who desire to
enhance their personal and workplace influence.
The curriculum focuses on the fundamental skills
necessary to display professionalism, emotional
intelligence, and other career building skills to
include: communication, team building, time
management, conflict resolutions, adaptability, critical
thinking, work ethic, problem-solving, and leadership.
The certification provides students an opportunity for
self-reflection and personal growth.
What are the Requirements?
The Soft Skills Certification, requires 4 courses
(12 credit hours) including:
MGT4/5720 Critical Thinking 3hours
MGT4/5750 Servant Leadership 3hours
MGT4/5193 Negotiation Skills For Managers 3hours
MGT4/5350 EssentialSoftSkills 3hours
Students completing a Soft Skills Certification will
be able to:
Understand the importance of a variety of soft
skills for professional success.
Apply principles of Servant Leadership to
personal and organizational roles.
Analyze appropriate techniques to build value
when negotiating.
IdentifyareasforEmotionalIntelligence
applications in the workplace.
Evaluatecommunicationstrategiesformature
workplace interactions.
Demonstrate a critical thinking methodology for
decision making.
GRADUATE DATA ANALYTICS
CERTIFICATION
The Graduate Certification in Data Analytics is ideal
for Amberton students who desire to enhance their
quantitative toolkit, gain skills in a high-demand field,
and analyze data to derive meaningful and actionable
insights. The curriculum focuses on the fundamental
concepts a data analyst would use which include
basic statistical concepts necessary for analytics;
proper design, development, and uses for databases;
predictive analytical techniques such as linear and
logistic regression, decision trees, and machine learning
algorithms; and both traditional and modern ways to
display and visualize data. Throughout the certification,
students will be exposed to modern analytical software
common to industry professionals. Classes are taught
at an applied, practitioner level where upper-level math
and complex programming skills are not required.
What are the Requirements?
The Data Analytics Certification, requires 4 courses
(12 credit hours) including:
MGT6460 Applied Business Analytics 3hours
MGT6790 Applied Database Management 3hours
MGT6785 Applied Predictive Analytics 3hours
MGT6795 Storytelling & Data Visualization 3hours
Students completing a Data Analytics Certification
will be able to:
Understand basic concepts of probability and
their application to data analytics.
Perform basic descriptive and inferential statistics
to include (but not limited to) measures of central
tendency and dispersion, confidence intervals,
and hypothesis tests.
Describe the basic tenets central to designing and
developing a quality database and be able to
understand the role databases play in storing
complex data.
Differentiate between the various types of
predictive analytical techniques that exist, and
successfully apply each one to a data set and
interpret the results.
Apply the fundamental concepts of data
visualization to create meaningful displays of data.
Evaluatearesearchquestion,developtestable
hypotheses, and be able to apply the correct
statistical technique(s) to derive an actionable insight.
The undergraduate degrees offered by Amberton
University were updated with the release of the
2024 - 2025 University Catalog. The General
Educationrequirementsforeachdegreewerechanged
to include MGT4720 Critical Thinking course and the
required Math hours were reduced to 3 credit hours.
If you would like to change to these updated degrees,
please discuss this with your Academic Advisor.