Juris Doctor / Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management Master's Program with degree concentration in Sport management PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The faculties of the College of Law and the College of Health and Human Performance have prepared a joint degree program culminating in both a Juris Doctor degree, awarded by the College of Law and a Master of Science in Sport Management or Master of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management (with a degree concentration in Sport Management), awarded by the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management. Under this joint degree program, a student can obtain both degrees in approximately one year less if both degree programs are pursued consecutively. Essential criteria relating to the joint degree program are as follows: (1) Candidates for the program must meet the entrance requirements for and be accepted by both colleges. Each college must be informed by the student at the time of application to the second program, that he/she intends to pursue the joint degree program. Students are encouraged to announce their intent of seeking a joint degree as soon as possible. (2) The joint degree program is not open to students who have already earned one of these degrees. (3) Admission to the second degree program is required no later than the end of the fourth consecutive semester after beginning one degree of the joint degree program. A summer term is counted as half of a single semester in the College of Law school (only one 8 week session) or may count as full semester in the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management if the student enrolls in Summer A and Summer B or Summer C (12 weeks). An exception to this requirement will be made for two semesters for the students in residence at the time the joint degree program is initiated. (4) A student must satisfy the curriculum requirements for each degree before either degree is awarded. The Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management will allow 12 credits of appropriate law courses to be credited toward both the MTRSM and J.D. degrees. The 12 semester credits selected from the law curriculum must be approved by the college dean upon the recommendation of the student's graduate supervisory committee. Reciprocally, law students may earn toward the satisfaction of the J.D. degree not more than 12 semester credits for courses taken in the graduate curriculum of the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management. Two of these courses, not more than total of 6 semester credits, will be treated as the two graduate courses ordinarily allowed to be taken outside of the College of Law for credit toward the J.D. degree. (5) A student enrolled in the joint degree program may spend the first year in either the College of Law or the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management. Students admitted to one college, but electing to spend the first academic year in the other college under the joint degree program, may enter the second college without again qualifying for admission if they have notified the second college before the end of the first week of the first semester in the joint degree program and are in good academic standing when the studies commence in the second college. Any student who participates in the joint degree program beginning in the Fall Semester must register for a course or courses in the second college no later than the beginning of the fifth semester, including the summer term as a semester. Any student who participates in the joint degree program beginning in the College of Law in the Spring Semester must commence study in the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management no later than the fifth semester, including summer term as half a semester. Students must carry the minimum number of credits required by the college in which they are currently enrolled. (6) The Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management’ courses which are to be credited toward the J.D. degree must carry a grade of 'B' or higher and will not be counted in the College of Law grade point average. College of Law courses which are to be credited toward the MTRSM/MSTRSM degree must carry a grade of 'C' or higher and will not be counted in the grade point average in the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management. (7) Students enrolled in the joint degree program must complete the College of Law’s advanced writing requirement. An approved master's thesis in MSTRSM program will satisfy the advanced writing requirement of the College of Law if so certified by a law school faculty member. Nonthesis students must still satisfy the College of Law's writing requirement. (8) A student enrolled in the joint degree program will not receive either degree until he/she has satisfied all of the requirements for both degrees, or until he/she has satisfied the requirements of one of the degrees as if he/she had not been a joint degree candidate. (9) Students who enroll in the joint degree program but do not complete the program may receive credits toward the College of Law degree under the graduate level course option for a maximum of two courses, not to exceed 6 semester credits, taken from the graduate curriculum of the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management. Although the grade is not computed in the student's grade point average, a grade of 'B' or higher must be earned to receive credit hours for the course(s). (10) Students in the joint program will be eligible for the graduate teaching assistantships and research assistantships, in the Department of Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management on the same basis as other TRSM graduate students, subject to the guidelines and restrictions set by the College of Health and Human Performance. (11) To facilitate student progress in the joint program, it is proposed that to the fullest extent possible given the availability and consent of appropriate law faculty, the student’s graduate supervisory committee be comprised of two TRSM graduate faculty members and one law faculty member. Whether a law faculty member serves on the supervisory committee or not, theses will deal with a topic related to law. CURRICULUM Select a minimum of 24 hours from the following if a J.D./MTRSM non-thesis student:
or other appropriate courses. If a J.D./MTRSM thesis student, you must take:
|
© College of Health & Human Performance, Gainesville, FL 32611; (352) 392-0578.
Updated: August 24, 2007
