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COMPUTER TRAINING/SPEEDWRITING
During the first and second trimesters, the students will receive computer and speedwriting training in 30-minute sessions on alternating days. Computer training emphasises touch-typing, page-making, Photoshop and other software applications that are important to journalism and desktop publishing. Speedwriting improves the student's ability to take notes quickly and accurately.
NEWS AND NEWSPAPER REVIEW
These 60-minute daily sessions during the first and second trimesters are intended to help students dissect and analyse news in a professional manner. It involves learning the gatekeeper’s definition of news as well as understanding the news value and editorial slants of different newspapers. The student is expected to read and analyse the previous day’s paper before coming to class each day. He/she will be required to make individual presentations and analysis of the news, as well as the newspaper’s treatment of the events.
BACKGROUND MODULE
Background module classes are held in 90-minute sessions through all three trimesters. The modules are built around a variety of topics selected from a number of fields.
SOME BACKGROUND MODULE TOPICS :
The Indian political scene
The Constitution of India
Indian legal system
Indian defence politics
Science and technology in India
Arts and culture in India
Advertising and marketing
Public relations
Indian foreign policy
Newspaper management
Materials management
Newspaper productioComputers for research
Newspaper circulation
Specialised mangazines
Reporting sports Film & TV in India
Gender issues
Developmental issues
Indian and Indo-Anglican Literature
Indian economic policies
Indian industry
World trade
Poverty in India
Ecology and environment
The criterion for selecting background module topics is their importance at the local, state, national or international level. Each of the selected topics would be considered a module and will be the focus of lectures.
During the first and second trimesters, the students will receive computer and speedwriting training in 30-minute sessions on alternating days. Computer training emphasises touch-typing, page-making, Photoshop and other software applications that are important to journalism and desktop publishing. Speedwriting improves the student's ability to take notes quickly and accurately.
NEWS AND NEWSPAPER REVIEW
These 60-minute daily sessions during the first and second trimesters are intended to help students dissect and analyse news in a professional manner. It involves learning the gatekeeper’s definition of news as well as understanding the news value and editorial slants of different newspapers. The student is expected to read and analyse the previous day’s paper before coming to class each day. He/she will be required to make individual presentations and analysis of the news, as well as the newspaper’s treatment of the events.
BACKGROUND MODULE
Background module classes are held in 90-minute sessions through all three trimesters. The modules are built around a variety of topics selected from a number of fields.
SOME BACKGROUND MODULE TOPICS :
The Indian political scene
The Constitution of India
Indian legal system
Indian defence politics
Science and technology in India
Arts and culture in India
Advertising and marketing
Public relations
Indian foreign policy
Newspaper management
Materials management
Newspaper productioComputers for research
Newspaper circulation
Specialised mangazines
Reporting sports Film & TV in India
Gender issues
Developmental issues
Indian and Indo-Anglican Literature
Indian economic policies
Indian industry
World trade
Poverty in India
Ecology and environment
The criterion for selecting background module topics is their importance at the local, state, national or international level. Each of the selected topics would be considered a module and will be the focus of lectures.
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Manorama School of Communication (MASCOM), Kottayam is run by the wellknown media group Malayala Manorama. It was a long cherished dream-come-true of the group's patron Sri.K.M.Mathew, who wanted journalism to be taught the way it should be: with a hands-on and no-nonsense approach and without frills and hype. His dream was to mould handpicked students into well-rounded journalists with quality training. This dream finally turned into a reality in 2002 when he set up the Manorama School of Communication (MASCOM) which quickly established itself as a premier journalism training centre in the country.
The course fee is kept affordable because MASCOM is a not-for-profit institution run with the mission that journalism education should be made available to everyone. The institute also provides for regular field trips of the students outside Kottayam, cash prizes awarded to the best students, merit-cum-means scholarships given to deserving students and subsidised food at the canteen.
The course fee is kept affordable because MASCOM is a not-for-profit institution run with the mission that journalism education should be made available to everyone. The institute also provides for regular field trips of the students outside Kottayam, cash prizes awarded to the best students, merit-cum-means scholarships given to deserving students and subsidised food at the canteen.
