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    "description": "<p>The Journalism B.A. provides students with the skills and knowledge leading to careers in electronic and digital media. It is a specialized admission degree program, which means a separate application must be submitted directly to the Nicholson School of Communication and Media in order to be considered for admission. Students choose from two focus areas:</p><ul> <li>Digital News. For students who wish to work as writers, reporters, editors and photographers for the news media, primarily websites, newspapers and magazines.</li> <li>Electronic News. For students who desire to work in broadcast news as reporters, photographers, anchors or broadcast sports journalists.</li> </ul><p><strong>Degree Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>Students who change degree programs (other than from Journalism Pending) and select this major must adopt the most current catalog.</li> <li>The Journalism faculty strongly recommend that majors work for a student news outlet.</li> <li>Journalism majors may obtain an off-campus internship with a news organization.</li> <li>To receive credit for an internship, students must have a 2.5 GPA in their required major courses. Students with less than a 2.5 GPA will not be given academic internship credit.</li> <li>Students can enroll in a maximum of three hours of internship credit. However, the internships must be with different employers. Each internship must be approved by and supervised by a Journalism faculty advisor.</li> <li>A portfolio of representative work must be submitted to, and approved by, a faculty committee at least one semester before graduation. At least 75% of the work must be produced while at UCF.</li> <li>Co-op or internship credit cannot be used in this major without prior approval.</li> <li>Students should consult with their Academic Success Coach (ASC).</li> <li>The School residency requirement consists of at least 24 semester hours of regularly scheduled 3000-4000 level courses taken from the UCF Nicholson School of Communication and Media.</li> <li>The Journalism program follows the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. Students who violate the code (plagiarizing, cheating or fabricating, for example) may be removed from the program.</li> <li>All prerequisites of courses taught within the College of Sciences will be enforced.</li> <li>Courses designated in 1 (General Education Program) and 2 (Common Program Prerequisites) are usually completed in the first 60 hours.</li> </ul>",
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