<p>Hello UMD Community and current UMD students. I am interested in journalism and I know that the University of Maryland-College Park campus has a very good program in journalism and I have seen and heard students in the program on UMTV, Capital News Service (CNS-TV)/Maryland Newsline , WMUC 88.1 FM, WMUCSports.com (I enjoyed all the broadcast programs) . I have also read their work in the campus newspaper "The Diamondback" (I really enjoyed the school's newspaper and I read it all the time). I do have the same interests as the journalism majors in the program. Sadly, I do wish that I have gotten a chance to get to know them and talk to them, but I do look up to them as I considered them as role models in this field. I would like to know what is it like in the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism for the journalism program? What is the class size in the journalism program ? I am aware and understand that the journalism program is an Limited Enrollment Program (LEP). I am working on getting the last part of the gateway courses completed. I am interested in broadcast journalism, despite that I have a background in print journalism. Even though, I want to do broadcast journalism, I still want to have experience in print journalism. I am in the boat for transfer admission because my current school does not have my major, nor preparing me for a career in journalism and only cares about STEM which the school is mostly a science school, and the program that I am in at my current school only does communication theory and is not helping me find internships, and I have not had a good college experience there. I am also interested in the Government & Politics program at UMD. I am aware that it is also an LEP and I will apply for that later once getting into the university and being admitted into the journalism. What can you tell me about the Government & Politics program at UMD? Also, what can the current UMD students tell me about JOUR 201 if you are a journalism major? I just want to know your experience in that particular course as well as in JOUR 181, JOUR 200, GVPT 100, and in both the journalism program and government & politics program. Thank you.</p>
<p>I’m a Gov Pol major. What do you want to know about the program?</p>
<p>GVPT100 (assuming it’s still the same as when I took it two years ago) isn’t particularly hard but it can be a pain. It’s mostly political science - think lower level statistics. You use a computer program to do it (SPSS). The upper level government classes are way more interesting, so it’s worth getting through 100 to get a chance to take some of the upper levels.</p>
<p>I would like to know everything about the Government and Politics program. As for GVPT 100, there are two variations of it that UMD offers. 1.) GVPT 100: Scope and Methods for Political Science Research and 2.) GVPT 100: Principles of Government and Politics. What is the difference between those two variations of GVPT 100?</p>
<p>The best place to get info about GVPT is at [UMD</a> Government and Politics](<a href=“http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/]UMD”>http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/). There you can find the requirements for completing the major, course information, past and current syllabi, and information about faculty members. It’s one of the largest majors on campus and not particularly difficult to get into but you need to get (I believe) a B in GVPT100 to stay in the major which leads to people dropping out after the first couple semesters. It’s a broad program so it’s hard to tell you everything about it but if you have any specific questions I can try to answer them.</p>
<p>I checked Testudo, and the only GVPT100 I’m seeing is the first one you mentioned taught by S. Rouse, which means they changed the professor from last year and the year before. So the class may be different from what I described to you earlier, but the title of the class leads me to believe they’re probably similar.</p>