Syllabus for
BA (Journalism and Digital Media, English/Honours/Honours with Research)
Academic Year  (2024)

Currently, the field of journalism is experiencing a shift towards digital platforms such as the internet, mobile devices, data journalism and other emerging technologies. This change is leading to a transformation in how journalism is practiced and necessitating the development of new skills, techniques, and approaches by practitioners. As a result, contemporary journalists must fulfill a variety of roles, requiring not only a solid grasp of emerging social trends but also specialized expertise and knowledge.

By enrolling in this programme, aspiring digital journalists will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with journalism in the Digital Age, which will prepare them to succeed in the rapidly-evolving media industry. During the first and second semesters, the focus is on helping students understand the role of Journalism within the broader context of social sciences such as political science, economics, and sociology. They will receive training in writing and develop their skills in reporting and editing to be successful in the field of written communication. In the third semester students are introduced to the nuances of the constitution and politics. Special emphasis is given in the fourth semester to the field of multimedia production, on-field experience and also the first hand understanding of social issues through service learning. The third year provides the budding journalist with the knowledge of digital journalism, media research and so on. In the final year, students will expose themselves to media psychology, solutions journalism and environmental journalism along with independent research projects.

Practical elements such as lab journals, workshops, seminars, campaigns, or news productions are incorporated to support each paper. Additionally, students will be required to gain skills in editing software. The Journalism & Digital Media programme includes sixteen core papers that cover a diverse range of topics in the field of journalism. There are skill enhancement courses related to writing and reporting. Starting from the sixth semester, students will have the opportunity to choose three electives to specialize in. In order to gain practical experience, an internship is mandatory for students at the end of the second semester. The theory courses aim to provide students with a broad understanding of the field, while the practical and skill-based courses will equip them for the job. Having a comprehensive knowledge of various subjects helps journalists gain perspective and write intelligently in the proper context for the general readership. The Department of Media Studies will leverage the expertise of professionals from different fields to provide students with the best possible exposure. Experienced journalists will also be invited to participate in events like "Feel the Beat" to share their knowledge and expertise. Students of journalism will be expected to regularly produce lab journals and from the fourth semester onwards, they will be responsible for creating a newspaper, television news bulletin, and digital publication.

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: Analyze the contemporary world with critical and scientific awareness of the intersectionality of race, gender, class, sexuality, and regional, national and global history and media

PO3: Demonstrate skills in multimedia reporting, writing, editing, podcasting, video making, and media entrepreneurship

PO4: Design, conduct and communicate basic research following fundamental methods and ethical standards in Journalism and Media studies

PO5: Use the knowledge of Journalism & Digital Media to enhance self-awareness, well-being, interpersonal relationships, career-decision making, and social responsibility in personal and professional domains

PO6: Demonstrate an understanding of literatures in English and translation and appreciate the role that historical context plays in the creation and interpretation of literary works

PO7: Apply critical and theoretical approaches to the reading and analysis of literary and cultural texts in multiple genres

PO8: Develop critical thinking and imagination through fiction and nonfiction and to familiarize students with cultural diversity

Most courses have continuous internal assessment components focusing on skill and knowledge testing. As a programme that focuses a lot on skill-building, alongside written submissions, exams and research based-reflections, a lot of practical submissions like audio/video productions, field-based reports and other varied assessment methods that are formative and summative, matching to the demands of the course  -with due consideration to the different learning styles of the students  - will be adopted.

Course Description

This is the basic course in Marketing and Selling Skills, where students will get exposure to Marketing and Sales. The subject gives them a vast and wide insight into the traditional and contemporary aspects of Marketing and sales. The input of basic fundamentals, coupled with the practical knowledge, will be given to the students to help them in understanding and designing the sales & marketing tactics and strategies.

Course Objective:

• To understand and appreciate the concept of marketing & sales in theory and practice
• To evaluate the environment of marketing and develop a feasible marketing &selling plan 
• To understand and apply the STP of marketing (segmentation, targeting, positioning) 
• To have an elementary knowledge of consumer behaviour its determinants, and selling skills

Human Resource is considered as a valuable resource in every organization. The world class companies compete among themselves to attract the best talent across the globe.  They view talent as competitive differentiator and one where the acquisition, engagement, development and retention of talent is considered as a strategic priority of business.  This course exposes the students to methods and practices to acquire, engage and develop talent, focus on development of strategic leaders within an organization and also deals with how talent and knowledge can be managed effectively for the development of the organization.

Course Objectives: This course intends

●       To provide an outline about the concepts, principles and models of talent management

●       To understand the importance of talent management in developing the organizations. 

●       To enable the students to apply the concepts, principles and models of talent management in real time scenario.

●       To evaluate the various process, approaches and strategies for managing and retaining talent in organizations. 

●       To provide solutions to issues pertaining to managing talent and knowledge

The course is designed to understand the importance of Sustainability and Green Marketing on consumer satisfaction and environmental safety. Green revolution, going green, environment protection, and sustainable development have become the buzz words today. Consumers are gradually becoming conscious buying eco-friendly products. This course aims at understanding the concept of Green Products and Marketing. This course also revisits the factors that affect consumers’ purchase decision in general. This course will lead the exploration of the leading edge of this paradigm shift that is now underway. This course introduces students to the concepts and processes of Green marketing and takes them deeper into the world of Green marketing.

The Brand Management course will enable students to have a fundamental understanding of how to build, measure, and manage a brand.

Course Description:

This is designed to immerse students into the entrepreneurial process of new venture creation. The course therefore provides students with an understanding of the role and personality of the entrepreneur, and a range of skills aimed at successful planning of entrepreneurial ventures. The purpose of the course is that the students acquire necessary knowledge and skills required for organizing and carrying out entrepreneurial activities, to develop the ability of analyzing and understanding business situations in which entrepreneurs act and to master the knowledge necessary to plan entrepreneurial activities. The students develop the ability of analyzing various aspects of entrepreneurship – especially of taking over the risk, and the specificities as well as the pattern of entrepreneurship development and finally, to contribute to their entrepreneurial and managerial potentials. The major piece of assessment is the writing of a comprehensive BUSINESS PLAN for a new venture. And central to the learning experience is a semester long series of business conceptualization and planning projects where students, working in small teams, will have the opportunity to develop their new venture creation and management skills under the tutelage of experts in each domain.

The main objective of this course is to enable students to develop creative concepts for advertising of any product or service.

Introduction to Carnatic music focus on the basic fundamentals of Carnatic music. This course helps to improve the vocal quality as the lessons works as voice culture to the begginner.

This introductory course explores fundamental acting techniques, including character development, improvisation, and emotional expression. Engage in various acting exercises and scene work to enhance students' understanding of the craft. This course further develops confidence and creativity as the students delve into the art of storytelling through performance.

The Python Programming covers the programming paradigms associated with python.

This course covers the programming paradigms associated with Python. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Python data types, functions and modules with a focus on modular programming.

This course is aimed at undergraduate students to introduce to them the prominent debates on democracy and emerging issues in economies.  The course discusses how various socio-economic factors acts as constraints on economic growth and development. This basic framework allows a student to delve into the causes and consequences of various strategies/methods taken/applied by policy makers and practitioners, and how it affects the overall objective of the state/economy through trifocal analysis of economy, society and market keeping the central theme of ‘Democracy’.

Liberalisation policies being pursued by most national economies in the world today, including India creates the need to acquire knowledge and comprehension of Globalisation as ideology along with its practical dynamics.  The course intends to provide a sound understanding about the various components, and issues of this ideology at an introductory level.  The methodology will be learning centered and so will be one of intensive facilitation by faculty of the reading to be done by students

Learning at the University is demonstrated and assessed through written assignments. It is important that the learners indicate understanding of the expectations, disciplinary context, use appropriate structure, style, incorporate relevant sources, express their individual voice in the writing.

The bridge course relies on two beliefs – 1) academic writing can be taught; 2) academic writing is a process. The modules illustrate the process and thinking required for writing rather than reinforcing grammar.

Academic Skills are a blend of theoretical ability to recognize the nuances of language aspects and hands-on training to exercise the acquired knowledge in reasoning, reading and writing. Academic Skills focus on developing research skills through careful reading and critical writing that are considered foundational and crucial in textual scholarship and knowledge production. The participants of this course will determine their areas of interest in conceptualizing their seminal work and constructing a reasoned argument. This course prompts the participants to take their learning-receptive skills and productive skills in a purpose-driven and practice-oriented mode on a contextual basis.

The course deals with receptive skills (reading) and productive skills (writing). In fact listening and speaking skills are not directly involved but act as a higher cognitive process. This course facilitates the participants with varied practices, tasks, exemplars, sample papers to practice with context-driven reading material. It runs for one full academic year with specific learning outcomes which are two-fold – conceptual grasp and textual application. The whole course and its structure involve Bloom’s taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Objectives

To enable the learner

•       acquire higher order receptive and productive skills

•       develop reading skills at the higher education level

•       be aware of functional grammar to improve research writing skills

•       grasp and apply the mechanics in academic writing skills

•       use study skills for research-based knowledge dissemination (writing a paper or presentation)

Course Description: This course offers an understanding to literary movements and genres. The focus is on form, structure and terminologies in literature. It enables students to interpret and critique texts and to understand that literature is representational. This course also examines texts in their socio-political context to engage with the historical context and cultural production of literature.

Course Objectives: This course aims to 

1.    offer a comprehensive understanding of the text and the contexts. 

2.     develop analytical and critical reading strategies

3.     enhance students to understand texts from multiple perspectives.

4.     develop analytical writing skills and to understand methods of interpretation

5.     acquire a literary vocabulary to read and write academic essays

Course Description:

This course aims at introducing students to the popular media of cinema as an important source of reading and writing history. Films as a visual source is analysed and thereby equipping the students to look at films by which historical events can be understood. The course also helps students in reading cinema as a political and social text. 

Course Objectives:

• To introduce students to the media of cinema as a narrative
• To explore films as a ways of interpretation to seek maultiple narratives of history
• To engage with films as a source of history

This is an introductory course that provides a broad overview of the field of communication and journalism. The course is aimed at introducing the student to the historical growth of media, the relevance of ancillary areas and the scope of the said field. The course will enable students understand how communication works and their(student's) role in the field of journalism

Writing is a fundamental skill for a student of Journalism. This course is meant for those journalism students who have a reasonable command over their writing in English, and need guidance and support for a reflective and journalism-specific writing process. The course is designed to address the cognitive aspects of writing, matching to different journalistic demands.

Course Description: Cyber law has emerged as a medium for growth with immense potential for solving many new and interesting challenges.  The course aims at appreciating one of the important emerging areas of law and the nitty-gritty involved in it. This introduces the students to the underlying philosophy of the subject and its relation to other areas focusing on human rights.

UNIT 1 is designed to introduce students to the role of law in technology, especially the internet and is designed to give a brief overview of the historical aspects of the internet. UNIT 2 acquaints the students with the regulation of cyberspace. UNIT 3 deals with digital contracts and information technology, while UNIT 4 deals entirely on cyber crimes which are rampant in the digital era.  UNIT 5 issues in E-commerce. Unit 6 deals with IPR issues in cyberspace and UNIT 7 deals with international regulation of cyberspace.

It is a solitary principle of industrial relations that a happy and content labourer is an indispensable asset for any employer. However, labourers have not received their due on account of historical wrongs, and in this era of a market economy, labourers do not seem to get the minimum standards of social security. As a result, industrial peace and harmony have remained a distant dream. Hence, constant efforts are being made by the governments to ameliorate the working conditions of labour in order to ensure minimum welfare for the workers.

Parliament is the heart and soul of any parliamentary democracy which is envisaged to reflect the expectations and aspirations of the people. In fact, it is the chief law-making organ and it comprises of members from different backgrounds, so as to represent the varied expectations of the people. As such, it has an onerous responsibility of making laws in a manner which caters to the requirements of the society cutting across the party lines. In twenty-first century, the age of technology and information, the role of Parliament has increased manyfold as the impressions of “We the People” have also undergone a sea change with respect to the quality of the law made. In this context, a fundamental knowledge of the law-making process and the requisites of the same is essential for the citizens. Hence this course is devised to introduce the students to the essentials of lawmaking process by the Parliament as well as the privileges conferred on the members of Parliament.

Course Description: This course presents an introduction to basic concepts in cosmology. The course is designed for non-science students interested in astronomy, physics and mathematics. The course details the basic physical concepts relevant to astrophysics and cosmology.

Course Objectives: This course aims to lay the basic foundation in astrophysics and cosmology and helps the students to appreciate the wonders of the universe.

This course has been conceptualized to introduce and discuss the moral foundations of democracy in principle, and democratic institutions, in particular. The students are initiated to various types of moral discourses in political philosophy. Further, this course looks at the development of democracy, in the global as well as the national realm. Democracy as an ideal gets fructified in the form of a government, which in turn is based on the principles of justice, freedom, equality, and fraternity. Ethics acts as the premise on which a successful democracy rests.

This is a survey course on India and its engagement with the World .

Objective of this course is to introduce analytical and empirical aspects on the genesis,

evolution and practice of India’s foreign policy. Students will study key relations and

important themes in India’s Policy on various global issues to understand the changing

positions and development of India’s role as a global player.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the basis for all human-machine interfaces and learning, and it is the future of all complex decision-making across diverse sectors. Students will explore the concepts of HMI and AI and become aware of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Case studies and workshops will allow students to consider how human factors and design thinking are applied in designing an interface and the ethical issues and implications of preserving human values. Through discussion, analysis, and workshops, students move towards designing or modifying a user-centric interface considering any sustainable development goal.

Course objectives: 

• To explain Human-Machine Interactions and Artificial Intelligence and their applications in daily life.
• To identify the importance and application of human factors and design thinking in interface design. 
• To evaluate a user-centric interface considering any sustainable development goal.

Course Description: Understanding close relationships is among the central goals of social psychology. Close relationships range from family ties to friendships to romantic and sexual relationships. Our main purpose will be on learning about the life cycle of adult intimate (i.e., romantic) relationships, ranging from stages of initial attraction and relationship initiation to growth and maintenance of the relationship, and in some cases, dissolution. Although other close relationships such as close friendships, family, and work relationships will also be addressed and integrated into the course, they will be of secondary importance. Class meetings will consist mainly of facilitated discussions and student-led presentations on topics such as the biological bases of attraction and love, commitment and interdependence, relationship cognition, attachment, communication, sexuality, relational interaction patterns, relationship satisfaction, and the social context of relationships (e.g., the influence of others) conflict, relationship dissolution, and relationship maintenance.

CO1: Understand the major concepts and models of interpersonal relationships.

CO2: Evaluate the different types of relationships and their impact on one's life.

CO3: Use strategies to enhance everyday life challenges and sustain effective relationships

This multidisciplinary course will focus on those aspects that help individuals thrive. The course sheds its light on well-being and its components and also clears all the misconceptions revolving around it. The students will be exposed to certain theories, concepts and practice procedures of well-being and its components. This programme will help the students to reflect on their life experiences on these dimensions and to know how to improve them and flourish in their life. 

This course will begin with a session on the Sociology of Cinema and the tools and techniques necessary to analyze the films that will be used in this course as a vehicle to examine society sociologically. This course introduces the student to the discipline of Sociology through cinema from India and elsewhere. It aims to allow students to critically examine society through cinema and its representation.

Course objectives:

• To enable students to view cinema as a text for sociological analysis
•  To gain an introduction to the discipline of sociology through cinema

This course is designed to build the logical thinking ability and to provide hands-on experience in solving statistical models using MS Excel with Problem based learning. To explore and visualize data using excel formulas and data analysis tool pack.

This course introduces the learners to six important areas: Principles of Writing, Features of Writing, Essay Organization, Précis Writing, Academic Presentation and Research Writing. The course design gives more weightage to productive skills based on their rudimentary receptive skill acquisition occurred in semester one. The participants of this course will exercise their textual scholarship and translate their areas of interest into meaningful writing. This course directs the learners to produce basic academic presentations which should be career-oriented and of social relevance. Bloom’s taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis becomes the substructure of this course instruction.

Objectives

•       To acquire critical and creative thinking

•       To develop the taste for theory of knowledge

•       To be aware of professional and research driven presentation skills

•       To apply the mechanics in academic writing skills

•       To use research skills to take a position in writing (writing a paper or presentation)

Course Description

This course is designed to create a foundational knowledge in language and linguistics. It introduces the students to the theories of the origin, features and development of language, including the sound patterns of language. This course delves further into discussing the key concepts of language and history, language and society, language and brain, and to the politics of language.

Course Objectives

●      To introduce the core concepts of Language and Linguistics

●      To develop intellectual skills that are essential for advanced degrees in the discipline.

●      To understand the fundamental theories of language, language origin, phonetics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and politics of language.

Course Description: This course offers an understanding to locate poetry and prose under the various literary movements studied. This also enhances a literature graduate’s understanding of the various forms of poetic and prose expressions. An analytical and critical understanding of how these forms are used in various literatures in English and their evolution over time. This course also offers insights into literary expressions as satire, protest and reactions to various socio-political incidents in history. Contemporary popular culture has also modified these forms to suit their expressions and aesthetics.

Course Objectives:

This course aims to

Understand poetic expressions and prose deliberations as an artistic expression

develop analytical and critical reading strategies of the forms of poetry and prose

enhance students to understand texts from multiple perspectives.

acquire a literary vocabulary to read and write academic essays on the poetic and prose forms.

Who or what are we referring to when we speak of digital, virtual, and online realms? How does our understanding of humans, culture, bodies, politics, art, and life itself change when viewed through the lens of binary code? The purpose of this course is to examine the cultural and human-centered aspects of the digital world. The course will investigate new ways of comprehending digital technologies and social media, which have altered the course of human history. From social media activism to video games like Second Life and the portrayal of cyborgs, the course will delve into digital worlds to explore the diverse cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues that arise from a renewed interest in them. Additionally, learners will explore the use of digital resources and their potential applications in the humanities field.

This course has been conceptualised in order to introduce students to the core Journalistic skill of reporting. This course teaches the students the key elements of news judgment, news writing and basic reporting techniques. They will also learn interviewing skills, feature writing, covering stories from different beats, laws, ethics, challenges in the field and current trends. The emphasis on these skills and its practice will prove beneficial for any career in journalism.

The course introduces students to the technique & skill of editing, as well as the relevance of error-free editing. Students will grow familiar with newsroom hierarchies, roles and responsibilities of the people in  the newsroom. They will learn concepts such as-stylebooks, proofreading, and copyediting for newspapers.

Course Objectives/Course Description:

An introduction to the craft of creative expression, this paper offers an engagement with various conventions and processes of art and expression. It focuses on visualizing narratives and enhancing learners in expressing narratives.

Course Description

The Fiction and Drama course explores the literary genres of fiction and drama, including the study of literary techniques, themes, and styles. The course will examine classic and contemporary works in both genres, focusing on the analysis of plot, character, setting, dialogue, and other literary elements. The course will also introduce students to critical theory and literary criticism.

Course Objectives:

·         To develop students' critical reading and analytical skills through the study of fiction and drama.

·         To introduce students to the key concepts and terminology of literary analysis.

·         To enhance students' understanding of the techniques, themes, and styles of fiction and drama.

·         To enable students to evaluate and compare works of fiction and drama.

Programme Objectives - The curriculum of the French course offered as II language to II BA/BSc/BCom students is designed to suit the present-day requirements where the emphasis is more on the Oral communication. Beginning with day-to-day situations with its dialogues the stress is on the spoken word. The part on French civilization offers one useful insight on life and living in France.

Course Description -French as a second language in the UG program. The method< Adomania> consists of a student's book and an activity book, both included in the digital manual. It consists of 8 units. The structure of each unit begins with basic communication aspects, leading to basic expressions, vocabulary, cultural aspects, functional and practical French stage by stage in each unit. This< manual> covers all the necessary global parameters.

 Course Objectives

·       To develop basic and communication skills sharpen oral and written skills.

·       To enhance knowledge on French culture.

·       To enrich the learner’s vocabulary

·       To enable learners to engage in and discuss simple topics with ease

Course Description: This course mainly deals with the listening, speaking, writing, reading modules of basic German by using different pedagogies and effective strategies in order to meet the requirements of various situations. This course also enables the students to have cross-cultural competencies and cognitive skills.

 Course Objectives:

·       To achieve language proficiency skills on the basic level

·       To develop the skills demonstrated in the ability to interpret simple texts

·       To attain some transcultural competency: an awareness of cross-cultural differences between societies.

·       To develop the ability to formulate basic questions. 

This is a thirty hours course. Students will be exposed to the use of Hindi Language both in oral and written forms. During the course, Hindi alphabets, words, simple sentences, general vocabulary and basic grammar will be taught. At the end of the course students will be able to read, write and speak the Language

The detailed text book “Samkaleen Kavita Sanchay” edited by Dr. Sebastian K.A & Dr. Deepak Kumar Gond is an anthology of Modern Poems written by representative poets of Hindi Literature. The poems reflect on the social, environmental, cultural and political issues which are prevalent in our society since the medieval period. Cultural art forms of India, ispart of the syllabus. Since translation is a significant area in language and literature, as well as practice of it in the syllabus.

 Students will be exposed to the Indian culture through poetry. Through translation, students can understand different languages, literature and cultures. Famous cultural art forms of India will help the students to know more about the diverse cultures of India.

Paper I - Poetry, Cultural Art forms

This course has been conceptualized to introduce newspaper and magazine layout and design concepts.

To be a successful journalist, one needs to be immersed in all aspects of Indian society- a bit of history, but more of the current issues that make and break this great country of ours. So, this is an attempt to familiarise ourselves with the political, social, cultural and economic realities of contemporary India through this course. 

The main objectives of the course are:

To be familiar with the historical context for present-day happenings.

To familiarise oneself with the contemporary issues facing Indian society, economy, politics and culture.

To apply the learnings to describe, analyse and debate contemporary issues from newspapers and magazines. 

This course has been conceptualized in order to make students socially responsible and contribute to the development of the society. The students get an exposure to difficulties faced by socially and economically underprivileged sections of society and hence reflect on ways to alleviate their problems.

Foundation  Kannada has been introduced for the Under Graduate Non-Kannada Speakers. These students are trained to converse in Kannada  language for their day-to-day life activities. It helps them to communicate among the group to create intimacy for their daily activity.  It also helps to un derstand the culture and tradition of the region. By the end of the course, students will be able to identify the letters, understanding meaning and speak simple sentences in Kannada language. The department of languages proposed to offer Functional Kannada (Conversational Kannada) along  with two credits and  thirty hours of class room teaching for the UG Programme from this academic year 2024-25.

 To enable students to communicate in the regional language Kannada.

• Helps the students to  converse in Kannada language particularly those have come from other states.

• The course mainly focuses on Conversation and writing skills.

Kannada is offered to students of  III Semester BA/B.Sc. Courses, as a second language for fifty marks. The students of this semester will study a Play belong to  modern fictions and non fictions.  The syllabus will help  them to learn and write essay writings.  The Syllabus is well structured with local, national and global needs of the students, imbibes human values, proffessional ethics, sustainability and  various language skills. 

Course Description: Basic Korean Level 1 is for Non-Native speakers to learn basic Korean language and to develop their knowledge as well as their communicative skills so as to be able to respond in simple every day contexts.

Course Objective: ▪ Module I presents 5 lessons on the Korean writing system. ▪ Module II provides 4 lessons, each containing two conversation tasks, vocabulary and expressions, grammar and speaking, tasks and practices, ▪ Korean culture is introduced.

Sanskrit is the ancient language of India. Foundational Sanskrit has been introduced to the undergraduate students.   This course helps the student to read, write, understand, and converse in Sanskrit. The focus would be on understanding the Sanskrit texts rather than just learning the grammar or the vocabulary.

The word Meghaduta is a Sanskrit word. It can be split into two parts i.e., “Megha” translating to “cloud” and “duth” meaning “messenger”. The poem proceeds to be a textbook case where all the five main schools of poetic analysis can be applied and the five features generally expected in good literature appear in equal measures and perfect balance. Most poems have an abundance of one feature and the others in a supporting role, Meghaduta uses all the features in the best possible manner.

The Panchatantra is a book of Niti, the wise conduct of life, written in the form of a chain of simple stories. Each of these stories has a moral and philosophical theme aiming to guide the reader on how to attain success in life by understanding human nature.

By learning grammar, it builds analytical, linguistic, and communication skills that are transferrable to many other areas like law, government, and tech.

“Aula International 1” A1/A2 . Is designed to develop listening,

speaking, writing, and reading skills in Spanish as well as cultural competency in the

Hispanic world. This course is intended for students with no prior knowledge of Spanish. 

This method leads easy way to communicate and to carry out tasks in Spanish.

Course Objectives: “Aula International 1” A1/A2’. General objective are more specific to

define the linguistic knowledge with the help of which the learners will implement various

skills such as to understand, to speak, to interact and to write.

Tamil is available as a second language for second-year BA/BSc/B. Com/H/ BBA
students. Various Programmes such as Guest lectures, Translation workshops, Tamil
Theatre performances, (Intra-class literary competitions), Student poets meet, Bhasha Utsav,
Role play, Certificate programme, Paper presentations, and so on are offered by the
Department of Languages. The department focuses on improving students&#39; critical,
analytical, and communicative skills. The program&#39;s association with academic bodies and
literary and cultural organization’s adds value and provides a contemporary approach to
teaching, learning, and study in Tamil.

Course Description: The paper initiates the students to unlearn some of their conventional notions about what is literature; introduces them to a varied schools of literary criticism and critical theory; and equips them to frame their own sense of 'literature' and 'theory'.

Course Objectives: This course aims to introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in theorising literary texts and expose them to the applicability of these theoretical frameworks. It will enable students to critically perceive and engage with the production of meanings, significations and negotiations. This paper will act as a bridge to Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Indian Literatures; Postcolonial Studies; Ecological Studies and other studies that will be introduced in the final year and Honours in English.  

This course provides journalism students with an introduction to the software tools and techniques used in the media industry. Through hands-on projects, students will learn how to use different types of media software, including video editing, audio production, graphic design, web design, animation, game development, and virtual and augmented reality software. The course will also cover cross-cutting issues such as media literacy, ethics, and social responsibility, as well as employability and entrepreneurship skills.

Explore the art of Digital Storytelling through this dynamic course. Digital storytelling using multimedia is an essential skill for journalists in the 21st century as they allow them to engage their audience, convey complex information and showcase their creativity. As part of this course, the students will learn about foundational elements, various digital tools, and platforms essential for crafting compelling narratives. They will dive into advanced techniques like interactive storytelling while analyzing real-world examples and create their own digital project and hone critical thinking skills for effective storytelling across various mediums.

This course has been designed to provide practical, hands-on training on multimedia production to the undergraduate students of media studies. The students would gain insights into the intricacies of producing content for multimedia formats and develop a skillset required. Students will have the opportunity to hone skills ranging from news writing for digital, social media and TV news, camera, A/V production, and post-production. They will get an opportunity to further build on their skills in upcoming semesters through training and projects.