BestSemester.com is the portal for the off-campus study programs offered by the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). There are a total of eleven semester programs and one summer program designed to serve the academic interests of CCCU member institutions.
Programs
American Studies Program | Australia Studies Centre | China Studies Program | Contemporary Music Center | Latin American Studies Program | Los Angeles Film Studies Center | Middle East Studies Program | Oxford Summer Programme | Russian Studies Program | Scholars' Semester in Oxford | Uganda Studies Program | Washington Journalism Center-
Overview
Overview
You follow the trail from one voice-mail inbox to the next. The searching isn't as much frustrating as it is exciting. What is truth? Who decides? The source or the reader? The writer or the editor? Can PR be true? Can journalists turn into speechwriters? Where do you fit into all this? Journalists must find answers - to the basic "who, what when, where and how" as well as the deeper "why." It's time to test your calling.
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Academics
Academics
It's time to get to work. This isn't a tour of the Washington Post. It's a chance to talk with professionals and apply what you learn. Industry internships are balanced by class time and guest lecturers. Through the Foundations for Media Involvement, Reporting in Washington and Washington, News & Public Discourse classes, you broaden your knowledge and experiences. Form the foundation for your future - whether you end up writing the news or consuming it.
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Faculty & Staff
Faculty & Staff
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Student Life
Student Life
The letter streets go one way and the numbers go the other, and then the diagonal avenues confuse everything. How do you walk with purpose when you don't know where you are? Washington changes from street to street and mysteries abound. The hometown of the National Institutes of Health has the same AIDS rate as Uganda. Poverty haunts neighborhoods near the World Bank. Face these realities as you serve others and intern in a real newsroom. You're in the middle of it all.
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Admissions
Admissions
Only journalists get this close.
So far you've chased down your Senator, landed quotes from the leaders you hear on the news and captured those once-in-a-lifetime images (without everyone else's head blocking the action). But access isn't everything. It requires information. You are reading, listening and wondering why more than ever before. You are learning to be a journalist - witnessing the action and reporting it for others.
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Costs & Policies
Costs & Policies
Information about participation fees billed through the home campus, as well as additional anticipated expenses during the semester. Also includes links to CCCU / BestSemester policies regarding access to student records, on-line communication, sexual and other unlawful harassment, and withdrawal/refund policies.
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News & Updates
News & Updates
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