Madras University Media Courses

I have completed B.Sc and now want to do M.Sc in Electronic Media from the Madras University so please tell me the duration of this course? Also provide me the course structure and the syllabus of the M.Sc Electronic Media course of Madras University?

Can you provide me the course structure for MA in Journalism and Communication program offered by Department of Journalism and Communication University of Madras?

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The course structure for MA in Journalism and Communication program offered by Department of Journalism and Communication University of Madras is as follows:

MA Journalism and Communication
Semester I

CIS C001 History of Communication

Unit I
The origins of writing nature and characteristics of scripts in ancient civilisations(Hieroglyphic, Indus script, Chinese/Japanese Kanji, Brahmi, Tamil Brahmi and Vattelzhuthu),language, literature, communication and globalisation in the ancient worlds, modes ofcommunication during Sangam age


Unit II
The nature and characteristics of ancient and medieval media of communication (clay tablets, pottery, papyrus, rock cut structures, granite stones, silk scrolls, palm manuscripts, drums, puppetry, koothu, magic lanterns, wooden blocks etc.,), performing arts and traditional media in India, performing arts and communication during Sangam period.


Unit III
The origins of printing technology in China, Korea and Western Europe, Different waves of print culture in ancient and medieval Asia, the characteristics of print based knowledge revolution, the historical contests between orality and literacy, colonialism and communication during16-20th centuries in India, the emergence of print culture in south India

Unit IV
The early newspapers, the implications of Industrial revolution on early waves of journalism, arrival of mass circulated newspapers, penny press, the birth of photography, phonogram, wireless telephony/radio, films and television, the birth of journalism in India


Unit V
20th century as the fulcrum of modern mass media technologies, the impact of II World Waron the growth of mass media technologies, the implications of Cold War on the development of Internet and Computer mediated communication, globalisation and new media, the impact of Emergency on the development of Indian media during 1980s-2000

References:
1. Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities, Verso, 1991.

2. Baines, John, Visual and Written Culture in Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press, 2009.

3. Baskaran, Theodore, S. Message Bearers: Nationalist Politics and Entertainment Media in South India 1980-1945, Cre-A, 1981

4. Blackburn, Stuart, Print, Folklore and Colonialism in South India, Orient Blackswan, 2006

5. Conboy, Martin, Journalism: A Critical History, Sage, 2004

6. Innis, Harold, Empire and Communications, The General Pub.Co, 1986

7. Innis, Harold, Bias of Communication, University of Toronto Press, 2008


Course Structure MA in Journalism and Communication University of Madras