Diploma course in Journalism

Duration: One year (Session starts June 2011)
Timings: 9am - 1:30 pm (Monday-Friday)

Semester 1 :
• Principles of communication
• History of mass communication
• Information technology
• Print media and photojournalism
• Communication and soft skills
• Mass communication concepts and processes
• Introduction to Sociology/Psychology/Political science/Economics
• Special guest lectures
• Creative writing workshop
• Blogs; content production for the web

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Semester 2:
• Reporting and editing for a newspaper
• The craft of writing persuasive prose
• Finding your authoritative voice
• Effective communication skills
• Computer application for journalism
• Reporting techniques and skills
• Editing: concepts and processes
• Advertising: concepts and principles/print, radio and TV advertising
• Press laws and media ethics (emphasis on Right to Information Act)

Areas of specialization depending on student interest:
> Broadcast Journalism (facing the camera, getting the right frames),
> Feature writing;
> Investigative reporting;
> Political reporting
> Lifestyle reporting (art, cinema, literature, fashion, music)

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Semester 3 :
• Research methodologies for media
• Web Journalism + content writing for the web
• Journalism and public opinion
• Media criticism
• Sensitization while interviewing people across various strata of society : from slums; underworld; victims; government; public sector units; and celebrities
• How to get the best from the PR-network
• Contemporary media technology
• Social psychology; social thinking and social research
• Indian political structure
• Government information system

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Semester 4 :
• Thesis/Project paper to be submitted by April 10
• 10-week intership begins 2nd week April

July 2011 - Graduation Ceremony

Certificate course in Journalism

Duration: Three months (Session starts June 2011)
Timings: Monday-Wednesday-Friday

The course helps streamline and enhance a person's creative writing skills enabling him to focus on clarity, structure, flavour, synthesis of information, and tonality.

The course offers the following:
• The craft of writing persuasive prose
• Finding your authoritative voice
• Introduction to storytelling
• Basics of editing
• Writing poetry
• Reporting for print, broadcast and beyond
• Basic skills for print news writing
• Fundamentals of basic reporting techniques
• Social responsibility and ethics for media practitioners
• Blogs; content production for the web
• Feature writing and investigative reporting
• Critical approaches to understanding media texts and culture

The differentiators
• Monthly creative writing workshop with an author
• Senior journalists as guest lecturers every week
• Optional - one week retreat to help learn how to focus and enhance potential