The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication was established in 1973 in the Faculty of Arts.
It runs a 2-year (four semesters) Master of Arts in Mass Communication course with a provision for specialization and a mandatory 8-10 weeks of internship programme. The departmental library has more than 5 thousand titles. It has a computer laboratory of 15 systems with Internet connectivity. The departmental film library has more than 200 CDs and DVDs. It has the state of the art equipment for TV and radio programme production. Till date, more than ten doctoral students have successfully completed their Ph. D degrees from the department. The department publishes its students’ laboratory news bulletin called Parisar.
It has completed a major research project: The Status of Hindi Journalism in the Hindi Speaking States of India funded by the University Grants Commission of India, an action research for Population Communication funded by USAID-UGC. In the last few years, the department has organized the following workshops and seminars:
- Coverage of Women’s Issues in Regional Newspapers (2005)
- Writing Economic News (2006)
- Kohinoor – A Ray Film Festival – (2006)
- Writing Research Proposal (2006, 2009)
- Science Communication (Supported by NCSTC, DST, New Delhi) (2007)
- Proper Health Habit for Rural Women (2007)
- Writing Science and Technology for Rural Press (2008)
- Water Resource, Conservation and Communication A workshop on Science Communication ( 2008)
- Entrepreneurship Development Programme ( 2009)
- National Seminar and Film Festival on the Films of Satyajit Ray ( 2009)
- National Workshop on ‘Communication Through Drama’ (2009, 2010)
