New Initiatives

The Johns Hopkins University Collaboration

The Washington Center announces a new collaboration with the Advanced Academic Programs, a division of the Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences of The Johns Hopkins University. The collaboration is designed as a service to Washington Center interns who think they might eventually want to apply to either of two part-time Master’s programs – in Government and in Communications - offered by Johns Hopkins at its Washington, D.C. campus. Beginning in the spring semester of 2007, it will enable selected students to fulfill their academic course requirement for the Washington Center program through successful completion of a course taught at Johns Hopkins and then to apply to those programs for admission with advanced standing. The cost of the course will be entirely covered by the regular program fee of The Washington Center.

Interested Washington Center applicants will be allowed to make a brief, separate application for admission to a graduate-level course at Johns Hopkins (approved courses to be announced). Applicants must be either seniors or rising seniors at the time they are at The Washington Center, and they must have a grade point average of at least a 3.5 on a 4-point scale.

Sample courses include:

The M.A. in Government Program:

• Government and Politics
• Political Psychology
• Defense Policy
• Theory and Politics of Terrorism
• Presidential Power and Politics
• Government and the Global Economy
• National Security
• Political Institutions and the Policy Process

The M.A. in Communications Program:

• Internet Strategies: Commerce, Communities, Government
• Publishing: Foundation and Future
• Museums in the Digital Age
• Introduction to Public Relations
• Ethnic Marketing and Political Communication
• Communications Law and Policy Making

Additional courses may be offered, and all courses may not be offered every term.

Students who are accepted into this special program and complete one of the approved graduate courses with a grade of B or better will be eligible to apply for admission with advanced standing to the masters programs in Government or Communication. If accepted with advanced standing, they will get Johns Hopkins credit for the course they have already completed and will need to complete only nine more of the ten courses required by those programs.

Students will not receive undergraduate credit from Johns Hopkins for the course completed, but can apply to receive credit for it from their home institutions.

For more information about our courses please send an e-mail to: courses@twc.edu.

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