Department of Journalism

Courses offered by Department of Journalism under BA (Hons) Journalism

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Assimilate the theoretical basis of mass communication
• Deliberate on a deeper understanding of the role and influence of media at an individual level
• Recognise the shifting of communication as a discipline from historical contours to contemporary abstracts.

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Grasp the skills required to cover and edit a news story
• Understand the contemporary trends and issues in news reporting
• Discern the structure and working of a newsroom
• Understand the sociology of news and factors that affect news treatment

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Decipher the vast historical evolution of modern-day media
• Contextualize the role of media through parallelly political and economic development across the globe
• Get hold of concepts like modernity, development, nationalism, colonialism and globalisation in the context of media pursuit
• See-through the technological changes in sound and visual Media

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Critically analyse the contemporary media culture
• Deduce the representation of caste, gender and nation in contemporary media
• Gratify the relation of new media and cultural forms
• Determine the composition of media as a cultural industry in producing ideologies and hegemonies

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Learn the basic concepts and techniques of advertising and public relations
• Incorporate strategies of marketing communications to build products, services as an integral of old and new media
• Understand the importance of brand positioning using IMR
• Construct the ethical basis for advertising and public relations

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Understand the basic concepts behind visuals and sounds
• Learn visual grammar and identify the elements of broadcast news
• Comprehend the visual culture and visual perspective
• Learn basics of editing a news capsule

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Approach the concept of development communication
• Understand the facets of development programs and schemes in the context of India
• Decipher the role of media in the overall development
• Familiarize with the basics of development journalism and rural reporting in India

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Gain effective relevance of new media environment and digital culture through analytical approaches
• Connect disparate theories and establish their basis in the field of new media
• Critique the ideas of digital media ownership, privacy, sociality and equity in the digital world
• Understand user behaviour and online participatory culture
• Stand at the integrated bridge of social media and journalism

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Understand the socio-political factors of news dissemination in international media
• Acknowledge the role of contemporary International media on the evolution of global culture
• Comprehend the impact of globalisation on media across the world
• Deduce the outcomes of cultural Imperialism and media hegemony

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Understand the basics of television journalism and technical aspects of electronic news gathering
• Learn the planning and structuring of news stories for audio-visual medium
• Interact with the challenges of live reporting and moderating studio news programs
• Comprehend the nature of pre and post-production of TV news

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Understand the nuances of communication research
• Learn the writing aspects of the research proposal and research report
• Decipher the quantitative and qualitative techniques of media research
• Know the ethical perspectives of research and sampling
• Put forth, the usage of methods of analysis

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Introduce to the recent developing concept of data journalism
• Learn the art of data-driven storytelling with the usage of available data
• Recognise the evolving ethos of newsrooms
• Evaluate the future of data journalism in coordination with changing technology and algorithms

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Theorize the legal provisions in order to decipher the constitutional ethicalities and professional codes of conduct
• Understand the growing media practices and their effects on media consumption patterns
• Analyse the ethical parameters of live reporting through related cases and laws
• Recognise the representation of women in media through relevant case studies
• Infer the social responsibility of media in coverage of violence and marginalised issues

Category: Core

Course outcomes

After completing the course, students should be able to

• Theorize the legal provisions in order to decipher the constitutional ethicalities and professional codes of conduct
• Understand the growing media practices and their effects on media consumption patterns
• Analyse the ethical parameters of live reporting through related cases and laws
• Recognise the representation of women in media through relevant case studies
• Infer the social responsibility of media in coverage of violence and marginalised issues