Plan Your Studies

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Organizational Leadership

• Plan Your Studies
• Lawrenceville, NJ

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Plan Your Studies

• The following is a tutorial to help guide
  organizational leadership graduate students
  through the process of planning curriculum
  studies.

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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.

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Incoming graduate student example

• Step 1 Please click on your concentration on the
  OL homepage. Then click on the Download the
  latest Planning Calendar link.

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Step 2 Think through how many courses you want
to take each semester.
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• Step 3 Download the Core Concentration Courses
  document.

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

• Planning Calendar

• The Study Plan Sheet

Example
Example
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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.
Example
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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 Spring 2009
  semester.
• The student sees that LEAD 500 Introduction to
  Organizational Leadership is available to take on
  Mondays. Also LEAD 530 Leading and Motivating
  in a Cross-Functional Leadership Role is
  available to take on Thursdays.

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Step 5 (Continued)
Example
Example
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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 Spring 2009 in
LEAD 500 LEAD 530.

Sp 2009
Sp 2009
Example
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Step 7 To continue to plan ahead for the Spring
semester, the student will use the Planning
Calendar to locate future classes.

• For Fall 2009, the student decides to take LEAD
  510 Organizational Communication which will be
  offered on Wednesdays as well as lead 550
  Organizational Research which will be offered on
  Tuesdays.

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Step 7 (Continued)
Example
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Step 8 Using the Study Plan sheet, the
student can insert Spring 2009 into the columns
under Semester. For each subsequent class, the
student should follow this process.
Sp 2009

Fall 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2009
Example
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Step 9 After completing the study plan, e-mail
as an attachment to the Organizational Leadership
e-mail address at orgleader_at_rider.edu
E-mail to orgleader_at_rider.edu
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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.

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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.

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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
  orgleader_at_rider.edu