PLAN YOUR STUDIES

LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ

Organizational Leadership

THE FOLLOWING IS A TUTORIAL TO HELP GUIDE ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRADUATE STUDENTS THROUGH THE PROCESS OF PLANNING CURRICULUM

STUDIES.

Plan Your Studies

Provided is an example to help new students:

This tutorial will help new students and remind current students of how to plan their studies within the Organizational Leadership curriculum.

The provided example is of a graduate student with a concentration in Counseling-Related Services.

Incoming graduate student example

Step 1: Please click on the link to your concentration: http://www.rider.edu/172_14922.htm

Counseling-Related Services in this example

Step 2: Think through how many courses you want to take each semester.

Step 3: Download the Planning Calendar.

Planning Calendar:

The Study Plan Sheet:

The following two documents will be needed throughout your decision-making process:

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Step 4: Download the Study Plan of the concentration you have chosen.

For this example, the student is concentrating in Counseling-Related Services.

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Step 5: New students are advised to take Core courses prior to taking Concentration

courses.

Using the Planning Calendar, this student would locate on the left-hand side of the page the available Core courses for the Fall 2010 semester.

The student sees that LEAD 500: Introduction to Organizational Leadership is available to take on Mondays. Also: LEAD 510: Organizational Communication is available to take on Wednesdays.

Step 5: (Continued)

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Step 6: Using the Study Plan sheet, the student then types onto the document on the left-hand side column labeled Semester “Fall 2010” in LEAD 500 & LEAD 510.

Fall 2010Fall 2010

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FOR SPRING 2011, THE STUDENT DECIDES TO TAKE LEAD 530: INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP

PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS WHICH WILL BE OFFERED ON THURSDAYS AS WELL AS LEAD 550: ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH

WHICH WILL BE OFFERED ON TUESDAYS.

Step 7: To continue to plan ahead for the Spring semester, the student will use the

Planning Calendar to locate future classes.

Step 7: (Continued)

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Step 8: Using the Study Plan sheet, the student can insert “Spring 2011” into the columns under Semester.

For each subsequent class, the student should follow this process.

Fall 2010

Fall 2010

Spring 2011

Spring 2011

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Step 9: After completing the study plan, e-mail as an attachment to the Organizational

Leadership e-mail address at: ewatson@rider.edu

E-mail to: ewatson@rider.edu

Important items students need to consider:

Students should note that not all courses are offered all semesters.

Not all courses are available as on-line courses.Students should expect to take at least a minimum

of 2 ½ years to complete the OL program. LEAD 598: Project Seminar is a time-consuming

course. It is inadvisable to take two courses when you take LEAD 598.

Important items students need to consider (Continued):

While every effort has been made to provide complete information on course schedules, sometimes circumstances change and updates and changes must be made to the schedules.

Always be sure to check back for current planning calendars.

Many thanks! Prof. Elizabeth WatsonProgram Director, MA Organizational Leadership

It is important for all students to plan ahead so that course requirements are completed.

We look forward to receiving your Study Plans!

Please e-mail your attached documents to: ewatson@rider.edu