Subject area
The comprehensive exam will consist of
questions from three areas chosen by the student. The examination
must include questions from at least one study and one applied
area. The applied section of the examination should require a
demonstration of expertise developed in classes such as news
reporting, editing, electronic information gathering, computer
assisted reporting, management, or magazine writing. The examination
in a study area should require a thorough understanding of journalism
issues covered in course work in communication law and ethics,
communication history, contemporary studies, or study aspects
of coursework in the applied areas listed above.
Examining committee
Composition: The examination committee
shall consist of full-time faculty in the Department of
Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising. Students on a business
track should expect to answer a fourth question that is posed
by a member from the appropriate department. A student may petition
the MJ director for permission to request a committee member
from outside the Department or School. Adjunct faculty do not
serve on MJ committees.
Student procedure: It is the student’s
responsibility to seek members of his/her examination committee
and secure their approval before applying for an exam date. Faculty
may choose not to serve on a student’s committee. Once
students have secured a faculty committee, students should request
an examination date from the SC AT Graduate Office. Comprehensive
examinations are not usually given during University break periods.
Examination period
Students will pick up their question packets
from the SCT Graduate Office at 9 a.m. at the start of the designated
week and submit their answers by the same time seven days later.
Extensions will not be given.
Examination procedures
Each member of the examining committee
will give a pass or fail to the question submitted. Students
who fail two or more sections of the exam will fail the exam.
Students who failed the exam are permitted to re-schedule the
exam a second time with a new set of questions.. Students who
fail one section of the exam may be allowed to re-take that portion
of the exam, although with a new question, that must be answered
with 2.3 days from the date is given.
Requirements
All students wishing to take comprehensive examiniations must be enrolled during the s emester in which the examinations are written. If coursework is complete, then students must register for a special comprehensive examination course.
Effective
These changes go into effect January 1, 2006.
