IGNOU Offers Two On-Campus PG Programmes In Media
IGNOU MEDIA RELEASE
School of Journalism and New Media Studies of IGNOU which has been declared as the ‘Nodal Centre' for Journalism Education in S. Asia by UNESCO, Delhi is offering two post graduate programmes in media. MA in Journalism and Mass Communication and MA in Electronic Media Production and Management are being offered as fulltime on-campus programmes from IGNOU's headquarters at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi.
MA (JMC) is news-centric in that it emphasises such activities as news gathering, editing etc. and is being targeted mainly at the students of print and new media with adequate theoretical grounding given in the course structure. The course structure of MA (JMC) itself is based on widely acclaimed UNESCO Model Curriculum developed by international experts after extensive consultations and is adapted to suit the cultural and social structures and practices of the Indian subcontinent.
MA in Electronic Media Production and Management MA (EMPM) provides the students with nitty-gritty of the broadcast media. While the curriculum content includes the concepts and practice of journalism, the emphasis is on technical details such as production, editing and general management of the broadcast process. The uniqueness of MA (EMPM) is that the student can experience the process of a live studio and production facility at Electronic Media Production Centre of IGNOU which produces and airs ‘Gyan Vani' and Gyan Darshan' and other educational channels and programmes and has most modern studios and production facilities supported by highly experienced professionals.
Both programmes are supported by well experienced in-house faculty supplemented by well known media professionals and its own laboratory equipped with most modern equipments to guide the students to understand and experience the both theory and practice of the media.
IGNOU also provides limited number of merit Scholarship to the students of both the MA programmes.
Admission to both the MA programmes is in progress. With only 25 seats in each of the programmes, the admission is based on an entrance test and subsequent interview/group discussion. Graduates with minimum of 50% marks are eligible to apply for the entrance test. The last date for submission of the application for entrance test is 30th June 2011. Prospectus and applications are available at all Regional Centres of IGNOU and headquarters at Maidan Garhi, New Delhi as well as on web site ‘ignou.ac.in'.
Date: 27th June, 2011
