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Plan of Study

Form

As of October 2009, you now can download the Plan of Study form with many of the required fields already pre-filled for IPFW candidates for the Master of Arts in Professional Communication.

Please remember the following:

In order for this form to work correctly, you should load it into Adobe Acrobat. Using other web browser plug-ins or third party PDF readers may cause unpredictable results.

For the top part of the form, only provide "Date Degree Expected," your name, and your PUID number. Leave everything else blank. For your PUID, make sure to use your Purdue ID (PUID), which you can find by logging in to http://my.ipfw.edu or looking on a grade report. Note that this is a different number from your IPFW ID. If you cannot successfully locate this number, contact the Grad Program Director who will assist you in finding this number before you submit the form.

For the middle part of the form, make sure you list at least one (1) Methods Course and three (3) Theories Courses. These are already pre-filled on the form, and only require you to select those courses from the drop-down menu.

If you took any courses as a non-degree seeking post-baccalaureate student and then later applied as a degree-seeking candidate, make sure you check "Non-degree Regis" for the courses taken before you were accepted as a degree-seeking candidate.

Make sure you include the date by which you completed or that you plan to complete each course.

For the remaining seven (7) Specialization Courses, you will need to type in this information on your own. If you took more than one (1) Methods Course or more than three (3) Theories Courses, you can include those additional courses here and have them count toward your Specialization requirement.

The form should list a total of 11 courses or 33 credit hours. If you list additional courses on the Plan of Study, you will not be able to graduate unless you take all of the courses listed.

Please note that in listing any "Special Topics" courses such as COM 590 or COM 597 that you take or plan to take, you must list the course title exactly as it appears on the course schedule for that semester or on your grade transcript. If you list the generic title, such as "Special Topics in Communication" or "Independent Study," your Plan of Study will come back unapproved and you may not be able to graduate.

Once you have competed the form, print a hard copy and bring it to the Grad Program Director, who will check it first and have you get signatures from your committee. Once you have those signatures, return it to the Grad Program Director, who will see that it gets sent to West Lafayette.

This information comes pre-filled on the form, but is provided for reference:

GRAD FACULTY IDENTIFIER EXPERTISE
B. Jane Banks [1] W0180 Rhetoric/Media
Steven A. Carr W0198 Mass Media
Dacia Charlesworth W0343 Rhetoric
Marcia D. Dixson W0191 Interpersonal Communication
Carrie Kennedy-Lightsey W0359 Interpersonal Communication
Wei Luo W0350 Intercultural
Irwin Mallin [2] W0240 Organizational Communication
Jonathan D. Tankel [3] W0206 Mass Media

[1] Unavailable to serve on committees after Fall 2009
[2] Unavailable to serve on committees Fall 2009
[3] Unavailable to serve on committees after Spring 2010

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