The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences announces a new Masters in Media and Cultural Studies that we are starting w.e.f. June 2008. The application deadline is November 10, 2007. Admission Test in 17 centres all over India.

More details at
http://tiss.edu/querya.htm and at
http://www.tiss.edu/cmcs/ma.html

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Anjali and Jayasankar

A Note on the Programme

The M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies aims at honing skills of media production and research within a framework that enables the development of a critical perspective on media, culture and society. In contemporary society, media and culture are crucial sites where identities are produced and popular ways of seeing are consumed.

Cultural Studies enables us to meaningfully engage and interact with these new modes of being and doing. By making us conscious of the many complex ways in which power impinges on our lives and constructs our cultures, it has the potential of empowering us to critically read the media and other cultural institutions and texts, to understand how they shape our identities and to think about how we could possibly shape them.

This programme will impart intensive hands-on training in video production, including direction, research, scripting, editing, camera and sound. It also has a strong research focus. This will enable students to produce documentaries and short films.

The programme will culminate in the production of a documentary/ multi media artifact and a research term paper. It will also teach basic skills in community radio, graphics and web design. The students will have access to the well-equipped facilities and the visual archive of the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies (www.tiss.edu/cmcs). The teachers of the course would include CMCS and TISS faculty as well as professionals.

With its unique blend of theory and practice, the M.A. in Media and Cultural Studies works towards the creation of a lively group of media 'thinking do-ers' and 'doing thinkers' who could then choose to branch out into a diverse range of work or educational situations.

The students of this course will be equipped to work in the areas of media and television production, independent media practice, media education, advocacy and research. The potential employers include NGOs, television production houses, educational and research institutions and governmental agencies.