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28th June 2016, 05:40 PM
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Re: IISc Humanities

Hey!!! The Humanities course at Indian Institute of Science-Undergraduate Programme is an opportunity to bring about synergy between the Humanities and Social Sciences (or ‘Human Sciences’) with the Natural Sciences.

Here as per your demand I am providing you Curriculum of 5th Semester of this course:

Course Description:

The Course will be useful in acquainting students with journalistic skills which they may apply in their own work to observe and communicate better for instance or to their field as future science reporters, perhaps or as individuals who might have to explain science to the lay person.

It also seeks to provoke thought on the practice of journalism, its tenets, its limitations and its influence with a view to encouraging a more critical engagement with media but also to position science within the media.

Class 1: What is News? The media shapes society’s perception of what is newsworthy. How does one identify an event as news?

Class 2: Reporting News gathering methods; an analysis of samples of reportage.

Class 3: How to investigate Innovative or extraordinary methods used in journalism to uncover truths not available by conventional means.

Class 4: New Media
Print, television, video, satellite TV and the small screen of the cell phone. A discussion on how technological advance affects journalism.

Class 5: Reporting Science
How is science reported in the mainstream media? Is the coverage adequate and informed?

Class 6: Science Journalism
Trends and approaches in Indian and international science magazines.

Class 7: How to research and write an article for a newspaper or magazine
Practical tips and guidelines

Class 8: Expressing an opinion
Constructing and presenting a point of view as in a column or a review

Class 9: The Art of the Interview
Practical tips and guidelines on conducting interviews

Class 10: Ethics and Dilemmas
The media is both a public service and a business. What are the conflicts and compromises that
journalists face?

Class 11: Preparing to write a book
Early steps in turning an idea into a book : laying the ground and writing a proposal.

Class 12: Class Discussion possibly with Guest Speaker on dealing with the newsroom

Class 13: Class Exercise in reading news/anchoring media debates and so on

Class 14: Concluding Discussion
Elaborating points of interest raised in earlier classes and answering queries

Readings:

-Sainath, P. “The Trickle Up Down Theory; Or, health for the millions.” In Everybody

Loves a Good Drought, (New Delhi: Penguin Books), 2000, pp.23-27.

-Verghese, B G. “The Making of a Marwari Tamil”. In Warrior of the fourth estate :
Ramnath Goenka of the Express, (New Delhi : Viking), 2005, pp.24-30.

-Morris, James. “The Conquest of Everest, 29 May 1953”. In John Carey. The Faber Book
of Reportage, (Faber & Faber), 1996, pp.660-662.

-Wenner, Jann. “Bruce Springsteen”. In Jann Wenner & Joe Levy. The Rolling Stone
Interviews (New York : Back Bay Books), 2008, pp.13-19.

-Wolfe, Tom. “Selections”. In The new journalism, (E W Johnson; Picador), 1990, pp.40-42.

-Mehta, Vinod. “Introduction”. In Lucknow boy : a memoir, (New Delhi : Penguin
Viking), 2011, pp.vii-xxi.

-Hype, Hypocrisy & Television in Urban India (Vikas, New Delhi 1997) by Amrita Shah

-Vikram Sarabhai-A Life (Viking-Penguin, 2007) by Amrita Shah

For Complete curriculum here I am attaching a PDF file:


Contact Detail:
Indian Institute of Science
C V Raman Ave, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012
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