The CSUDH program is designed to deliver course material through three interrelated formats--face-to-face, fieldwork, and technology, each utilizing multi-media technologies:

• Fifty percent (50%) of the program is delivered in a face-to-face format (traditional course setting). The six core classes are structured in 5-week modules with each course meeting formally one evening a week for 5.5 hour sessions (4:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.). Additional traditional classroom sessions may be required based on the instructor’s needs and determination. Approximately two Saturdays a semester are required for the fieldwork and assessment seminars.

• Twenty-five percent (25%) of the program is fieldwork. The fieldwork component of the program involves candidates in a leadership project, the field-based project, that integrates with both the traditional classroom and on-line components of the program. The field-based project culminating activity is a multi-mediated presentation presented at the end of the program.

• Twenty-five percent (25%) of the program is delivered in an on-line format (distance learning). A mix of chat room, discussion board, case study analysis and research activities have been designed to support the face-to-face and fieldwork components of the program. Candidates entering this program are expected to be competent in technology skills due to the program’s high-level technology components. Candidates not having such skills, will be required to take an additional technology class prior to starting the core classes. Essential skills include basic word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, presentation programs, and on-line chat rooms and discussion boards.