Broadcasting 1 their enrollment at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. These conditions BROADCASTING are explained under Admission to the University, Removal of Deficiencies. High school deficiencies must be removed during the first 30 credit hours Description of enrollment at Nebraska (60 hours for foreign language) or the first calendar year, whichever takes longer. The broadcasting major offers courses leading to a wide variety of careers in the broadcasting and media industries. Building on a solid Admission Deficiencies/Removal of Deficiencies base of instruction in radio, television, mobile and online journalism, the You must remove entrance deficiencies in geometry and foreign language major has broadened its curriculum in response to advancing technology before you can graduate from the College of Journalism and Mass across the broad range of media. Broadcasting offers courses in news Communications. gathering and dissemination, videography, data visualization, Web design, sales, management, and other specializations including the use of audio, Removing Foreign Language Deficiencies video and mobile technology. Courses are designed to develop both a A student will need to complete the second semester of the first-year comprehensive understanding of theoretical principles and professional language sequence to clear the deficiency and the second semester of skills. Most courses involve extensive practical laboratory work in the second-year language sequence to complete the college graduation addition to classroom lectures and discussions. requirement in language. Many of the broadcasting faculty members have extensive industry Removing Geometry Deficiency experience at major television and radio outlets in Columbus, Ohio; A deficiency of one year of geometry can be removed by taking two Detroit, Michigan; San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; Kansas City, math courses approved by the College of Journalism and Mass Missouri; and Omaha, Nebraska. The faculty continues to be connected Communications. to the industry, and its members are actively involved in professional media organizations. Students, likewise, are encouraged to further Admission GPA Any student transferring into the college must have at least a 2.0 GPA. A their professional goals through participation in student organizations student with 12 or more hours of college credit must have at least a 2.0 such as a chapter of the National Broadcasting Society, Midwest GPA to be admitted or readmitted to the College of Journalism and Mass Broadcast Journalists Association, and the Radio Television Digital News Communications. Association. KRNU and KRNU2 are professionally managed audio services and are an Readmission A student who left the University not in good standing (below a 2.0 integral part of the instructional program. With studios in Andersen Hall, grade point average) may be readmitted in the Explore Center. Such a KRNU operates year-round and serves an audience of potentially 250,000 student would be eligible to reenter the College of Journalism and Mass persons in the Lincoln area, plus a global audience via the Internet. Communications upon attaining a 2.0 cumulative GPA. This student KRNU2 operates on the Internet only. would follow the catalog in effect at the time of the transfer from the Broadcasting majors also are encouraged to seek internships and Explore Center to the college. professional work experience prior to graduation. Students in this major have held more than 100 media-related internships and professional Other Admission Requirements Students from other Colleges part-time jobs, including internships at ABC News in New York, CNN in College of Journalism and Mass Communications courses will be New York working with Anderson Cooper, the CNN Washington bureau, restricted to College of Journalism and Mass Communications majors ESPN and VH1. Graduates are working for major media organizations except where stipulated differently. Students from colleges and throughout the nation. departments with a written agreement with the College of Journalism and Mass Communications will be exempt from this policy. Permission College Requirements may be granted by an associate dean of the College of Journalism and College Admission Mass Communications in special circumstances following the directives The entrance requirements for the College of Journalism and Mass provided by the faculty in these matters. Details about agreements with Communications are the same as the admission requirements for the programs outside the College of Journalism and Mass Communications University of Nebraska–Lincoln. are listed on the college’s website (https://journalism.unl.edu/non- majors/). These include: ESL Students • English (4 units) Applicants who speak English as a second language must present a • Mathematics (4 units) TOEFL score of 70 or higher, which includes a subscore of at least 20 on the writing test. Additionally, broadcasting majors must present a score • Social studies (3 units) of at least 45 on the Test of Spoken English. • Natural sciences (3 units) • Foreign language (2 units) College Degree Requirements One unit equals one year of high school credit. Students with one College General Education Requirements deficiency, two deficiencies but not in the same category, or two To graduate with a bachelor of journalism degree, students must deficiencies in a foreign language who receive a Deferred Admission or complete requirements from the following areas: Admission by Review, may be considered for admission to the college. Students who are admitted through the Admission by Review process with core course deficiencies will have certain conditions attached to 2 Broadcasting • the University ACE requirements Group 4—Languages–Classical and Modern: 0-6 or 10 hours • the requirements for a major offered by the college A student who has completed the fourth-year level of one foreign • the non-major requirements that are specific to the college language in high school is exempt from the languages requirement. All foreign language courses, as well as American Sign Language courses, All College of Journalism and Mass Communication students must will also count in Group 2. complete the University ACE requirements. For the ACE 3 requirement, students must complete a statistics course from the following options: Options for completion of language requirement: STAT 218 or CRIM 300 or ECON 215 or EDPS 459 or SOCI 206. 1. Regular four-semester sequence: 101, 102, 201, and 202 (5, 5, 3, 3 College Non-Major Requirements hours for a total of 16) 2. Three-semester sequence: 101, 102, and 210 (5, 5, 6 hours for a total The college non-major requirements (NMR) are designed to further the of 16) purposes of liberal education by encouraging study in several different areas. Courses satisfying these requirements may impart specialized 3. Students who have completed at least two years of one foreign knowledge or broadly connect the subject matter to other areas of language in high school may satisfy the college’s foreign language knowledge. requirement by completing 101 and 102 in a different foreign language. Group 1—Second Group of ACE 4. Students who have not taken four years of the same foreign language The college requires a second set of ACE 1 and ACE 3—9 courses beyond in high school but who complete the Modern Language Placement the ACE courses required by the university. The ACE 4 course in Group 1 Exam and are placed into 203 (or higher) of that language are exempt must include a lab. The second ACE 3 includes MATH 103 as an option. from the foreign language requirement without credit toward the The second ACE 9 is a human diversity in the U.S. communities course degree. selected from a set of approved courses as listed in the degree audit. Students who have taken three years or fewer of a foreign language in Group 2—72 Hours of Liberal Arts high school should contact the Department of Modern Languages and Candidates for the bachelor of journalism degree must abide by Literatures for recommended placement. the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication accrediting guidelines, which require 72 semester hours A student who achieves a specified scaled score in the College Level be completed outside the college in subjects approved by the University Examination Program (CLEP) subject exam in French, German and of Nebraska–Lincoln as liberal education/liberal arts courses and Spanish, Levels 1 and 2, may be exempted from the language requirement traditional liberal arts and sciences courses. All ACE courses from and may also receive credit for the fourth semester course in the outside the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, and all language. Students who want to exercise this option must receive traditional liberal arts courses (departments identified in the degree audit) permission from an associate dean of the College of Journalism and will apply to Group 2, along with non-vocational ALEC courses, College of Mass Communications. Business courses and College of Fine and Performing Arts courses and A student who has demonstrated acceptable proficiency in a language any from NUTR, HRTM, and TMFD, unless specifically excluded. These 72 other than English is exempt from the foreign language requirement hours of liberal education/liberal arts courses are identified as Group 2. without credit toward the degree (for example, international students Students graduating with 120 hours can take a maximum of 48 hours in who completed high school outside the United States). The student’s the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Students may take academic advisor will determine whether a placement exam administered additional hours in the college, but those hours will be in addition to the by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is necessary. 120 hours required to graduate. Group 5 Group 3—Minor Outside of the College At least 30 of the 120 semester hours of credit must be in courses CoJMC majors must complete one minor or an approved University of numbered above 299. Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduate certificate of 12 of more credit hours outside the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.