These courses prepare students for future professional career in at least three communication fields through practical experiences. Students are required to produce implementable communication projects according to the need of the organization they work for. Outputs of the courses include (but not limited to) documentary, policy paper, SBCC campaign, strategy paper, etc.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: 00310546235/ MSJ 6235
Course Name:
Professional Development 2
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: 02130122232 / MSJ2232
Course Name:
Cinema Studies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces students to the study of film, its history and aesthetics, and their application to individual films and film movements. Students will become acquainted – through readings and screenings – with the basic elements, terminology, and theories of critique and inquiry in film studies. These include genre theory, auteur theory, and semiotics of film and the analysis of form as opposed to content. More than an overview, the goal is to train students to view films critically and with an informed awareness.
Course Code: 03140123162 / MSJ3162
Course Name:
Communication Approaches for C4D
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course helps students learn about different communication approaches used in design and implement interventions in Communication for Development (C4D) and their evolution. Through readings, interactive discussions and debates, case studies, and project works, students will develop/enhance their knowledge and skills on formulating evidenced-based intervention designing, especially the art of informed decision-making on selection of the approach(es) based on the context.
Course Code: 03140546111/ MSJ 6111
Course Name:
Thesis Proposal Preparation
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to integrate the knowledge and skills learned from previous research courses: Communication Research (chapter 1), Communication Theories (chapter 2) and Research Methodology (chapter 3). Students are expected to put together a research proposal on the basis of chapters they have written in previous semesters. They will present their proposal before a panel of scholars and/or professionals, and upon their successful defense of their proposals, appropriate supervisors are assigned to guide them in their research processes.
Course Code: 03140546121/ MSJ 6121
Course Name:
Communication Policy Making and Planning
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to make students capable of writing a communication policy brief. They will learn about the key ingredients of an effective policy brief: evidence, policy context, and engagement. Students will learn how to design persuasive messages and understand why a policy brief works as an effective communication tool. In order to earn enough proficiency in policy matters, students need to understand it at three different but interconnected phases. Phase one would provide students with an ample theoretical discussion about policy issues from a research context. Phase two would enable them to learn and critique the formulation of several important media policies of Bangladesh. In phase three, students will learn to write a policy brief for a designated audience on a given topic.
Course Code: 03140546126/ MSJ 6126
Course Name:
Social Media Management
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course offers a framework to unlock the features of social media and its rise, addressing some crucial threads such as the change in communication strategy, audience attitude, and access to information concerning consumers and brands. It enhances students’ knowledge of the gamut of social media, enabling them to understand advocacy and mobilization, marketing, and branding through social media from a communication strategist’s standpoint.
Course Code: 03210123251 / MSJ3251
Course Name:
Mobile Journalism
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course teaches students the reporting and production process and techniques of mobile journalism. The course will discuss how this newest form of journalism is different from the traditional forms, how global adoption of mobile has influenced and changed journalism and how to prepare for the future of the media and life in a mobile-first world, i.e. what knowledge and skills they need to work with this form. Through different activities including classroom activities (lecture, presentation, discussion and debates, writing) and field visits, the students will acquire/enhance their knowledge and skills necessary to use their phones for audio, image, and video capturing and editing, reporting, script writing, live reporting, and distributing through websites and/or social media.
Course Code: 03210545221/ MSJ 5221
Course Name:
Communication Theories
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is about understanding the roles and functions of theory in studying communication. It discusses the early theories of communication as well as the current theories. Under this course, students will learn how to appreciate, search, and write review of related studies/literature.
Moreover, the students will learn how to develop a study framework and operational definitions. This course is designed to make students capable of writing chapter 2 of their thesis.
Course Code: 04210124101 / MSJ4101
Course Name:
Media and the Law
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course aims to teach students media, law, legal rights as well as obligations. Students will be able to learn how to publish information without violating defamation and invasion of privacy, how to gather information to avoid legal and/or ethical trouble, and how to deal with different orders. Besides, this course will examine how to steer the digital space of contemporary journalism and focus on different laws, policies, and best practices in the use of photographs and other copyrighted works. This is not such a course that would prepare students to practice law directly. Also, this course will help students to understand when and how to call on legal help.
Moreover, this course will explore the enticements of unethical practices and the consequences of giving into those enticements. Furthermore, this course will focus on the impact of the internet on the practice of journalism and other creative fields and how new communications technologies are regulated today. In addition, this course will also explore the journalistic practice of media laws in different countries specially in Bangladesh. Overall, this course aims to give students the necessary legal framework of their rights and responsibilities as journalists.
Course Code: 00310124298 / MSJ4298
Course Name:
Internship
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
All students studying at the MSJ Department are required to undertake an internship in an area of media and communication that interests them. By their final semester of study, students are required to seek out a suitable organization for an internship to experience the dynamics of working in a real organization. These may be unpaid or occasionally paid, depending on the employer. The duration of the internship is usually from 8 to 12 weeks. Students are expected to work as per the working hours, roles, and conditions set by the employer, which is to be negotiated between the host organizations and the students.