21st-century journalists work in an ever-changing global media landscape. They’re tech-savvy storytellers who find and report the news using sounds, images, and words, seamlessly weaving these elements together for a variety of platforms like websites, social media, newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Our BA English with Mass Comm. & Journalism programme will help prepare you for this new media world. Here, we will guide you through a cutting-edge digital curriculum that emphasizes: reporting, writing and editing, social media branding, research techniques, story pitching, web and print design, and data journalism. The graduates would ideally possess the ability to think analytically, and write across platforms, including web writing and copy editing after course completion.
Students are actively encouraged to experience the wider world inside both traditional and virtual classrooms. Exposure to different types of cross-border collaboration during your studies will provide insights on how to develop vivid ideas.
It also presents you with different behavior, learning styles, and practices that you will need after graduation to make yourself a perfect fit in a workplace environment. Options include:
General Tamil – / | French – I | Professional Communication Skills I | Social History of England | Age of Shakespeare & Milton | Introduction to Mass Communication
General Tamil – II / | French – II | Professional Communication Skills II | Neo-Classical & Romantic Literature | History of English Literature | Radio and Television Studies | Computer Skills for Journalists | Public Speaking | Film Appreciation
General Tamil – III / | French – III | Professional Communication Skills III | News Journalism for Print | Victorian Period | Indian Literature in English | American Literature | Basic Tamil I/ | AdvancedTamil I | Short Stories and One-act plays
General Tamil – IV / | French – IV | Professional Communication Skills IV | Twentieth Century Literature | Shakespeare | Ethics and Laws for Journalists | Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines | Basic Tamil II/ | Advanced Tamil II | Reading for Pleasure
History of English Language | Imagining India | Interview and Presentation Techniques for Radio and Television Drama | Environmental Science
Introduction to Literary Criticism | World Literature | Soft Skills Media Studies | Project Work | Value Education