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Participants in the Washington Journalism Center must be enrolled as full-time students and receive academic credit for the program from their home institutions. The WJC does not grant credit directly; rather, it serves as an extension campus of the member schools of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. Academic credit is recommended to and granted by each student’s home institution. Credits correspond to upper-division learning levels and serve for an academic major, minor or general education requirement. The program recommends that students be granted the equivalent of 16 semester hours of credit, which could be distributed as follows:
Grading
Overall evaluation of student work is based on many factors. These include but are not limited to: participation in discussion, written and spoken projects and examinations. A final "C" grade indicates adequate performance, a "B" indicates competent and complete work, and an "A" indicates excellent, creative and integrative work.
In newsroom terms, try to think of individual story grades this way: An "A" means that a story is almost ready to print, while a "B" will require 10 minutes of work by an editor. With a "C" story, the work will require more research and revision while, with a "D," the reporter must start over. "F" stands for "fired" (i.e. story will not meet minimum standards at a paper).
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