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The MHR Department suggests that students see an MHR Faculty Advisor of their choice at least twice per year. Changes are made from year to year in the courses offered by the University and in various departments. Faculty Advisors can help students develop petitions for deviation from prescribed requirements where this is to the benefit of the student. Your Advisor can be helpful to you in the following ways:
Choose an advisor in Management, Human Resources, Entrepreneurship, Not-for-Profit or Business Education, depending on your choice of Career-Goal Elective Programs, even if that choice is tentative. See the Advisor LIst.
Alternative Career Goal Elective Programs are displayed on the back of your curriculum ("yellow") sheet, copies of which are always available in the MHR Department Office, Building 94, room 275, or may be be printed from the Curriculum links of this web site. Advisors are listed by their fields on the MHR Department bulletin board, just outside the office, along with their office hours. You may change advisors as you find teaching mentors with whom you wish to work.
Transfer students should meet with an advisor during Student Orientation prior to their first quarter, or as soon as possible thereafter, to determine which MHR curriculum requirements have been fulfilled by courses already taken. If you are a transfer student, you will have received a copy of the MHR curriculum sheet related to your year of entry showing those Cal Poly Pomona courses for which you have been given credit because you have already taken equivalent courses elsewhere. It is important to verify that you have been given maximum credit for courses that you are transferring in. Current copies of the articulation agreements existing between Cal Poly Pomona and local junior colleges are available on the web. Click here!
That you have received credit for a Cal Poly Pomona course is indicated by the "x-ing out" of the 4 units for the Cal Poly course with, usually, a "4-1/2" written in its place. This is because the 3 semester-units earned at a community college are equivalent to 4-1/2 quarter units on our campus which is on the quarter (not semester) system. Your advisor will determine if the extra 1/2 units accumulated for a number of such courses can be applied to satisfy any other MHR requirements. While not always possible, we shall make every effort to put to good use all of the units that you earned prior to enrolling at Cal Poly Pomona.
Transfer students will probably see a number of courses listed in the middle column of the front of the curriculum sheet. These courses have been deliberately placed there by the person who evaluated your prior academic work so that an MHR Advisor can determine how these courses should be used. Another good reason for you to see your Advisor soon!
When you have ten or fewer courses left, you're ready for a grad check and registration priority. See any full time faculty member of your choice and ask them to help. Together you'll complete forms to take to your evaluator at the Evalutaions section of the Registrar's Office. Faculty office hours for all faculty members are posted outside the MHR office at 94-275 for your convenience.
When you meet with your advisor, please have a copy of your evaluation form, with notes on all of the classes which you've taken since your last evaluation at Cal Poly Pomona or elsewhere. You should also stop by the MHR office and pick up a copy of the Career Goal Elective forms which coordinate with the year of your particular curriculum. It's important to be specific about the year of the curriculum you are on, since requirements often vary in important details.
Your advisor will want to know which Career Emphasis area you have chosen. Faculty advisors may be flexible with you in modifying requirements, depending on the career emphasis of your choice.
Once you've met with your advisor and completed the Career Goal Elective forms, you'll be ready to head for Evaluations with a petition to graduate! You personal evaluator will verify your achievements and plan for accomplishing requirements and forward you a "graduate contract" by mail. This contract will provide official agreement that the courses you plan to take will fully satisfy requirements for graduation.
he MHR curriculum provides wide latitude for students to choose MHR electives related to their career interests. The best students "plan ahead" rather than simply taking courses based on their availability. Planning is especially important as students become Seniors as many courses are taught less frequently than course offerings which include students from other majors. In order to facilitate multiple-quarter planning, the Division of Academic Affairs publishes an annual forecast of courses indicating which courses will be taught each quarter, and whether daytime or evening sections of special offerings are planned. Students may pick this handout up at the Department Office, Building 94, Room 275.
All MHR graduates either complete a Senior Project or evidence career skills through internships. The Senior Project is an in-depth research-oriented undertaking which usually takes two quarters. Students work under the direction of Senior Project coordinators but may also involve other faculty mentors of their choice as project consultants.
As an alternative to Senior Projects, many students get (or have) a job which is (a) MHR-related, (b) responsible enough and (c) new enough for you that doing the job is clearly helping you to prepare for your career. All four units may be earned in the same quarter, or in successive quarters, depending on the number of hours worked per week. See an MHR Internship Coordinator before pre-registering for internship. Students pursuing the internship option are required to complete 4 units, though an additional 4 units may be earned as a substitute for other upper division Career Track elective requirements.
