Mahindra University’s School of Media: Integrating Technology and Humanities
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Mahindra University is based in Hyderabad, India, and comprises a few excellent schools; one such school is the School of Media. The School of Media was instituted last year and is the fifth school to be listed under the university, joining others such as schools of law, management, education, and the flag bearer known as École Centrale School of Engineering.The School of Media seeks to empower future media leaders by merging technology with humanities. It believes in raising a generation of creators and information-seekers who are capable in a futuristic time in this digital age of emerging technologies. The school has invested in relevant infrastructure, gadgets, and rejuvenated a student-centric approach in response to this call in the new media environment .
Undergraduate Programs Offered .The current undergraduate programs the School of Media offers run to three, with a Doctoral program. These programs shall be pegged towards equipping students with the requisite skills and knowledge to thrive in the fast-developing Media Landscape. The undergraduate programs are:Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication, airlifted, 3 years: This program lays much focus on digital journalism, media production, and advertising-public-relations-digital management. Bachelor (Honours) of Journalism and Mass Communication (4 years): This program prepares the student in media project management and research.B. Tech. in Computation and Media: This one-of-a-kind course offers technological competencies in interactivity like building game designs, models, and animation films, and virtual reality based applications, AI Newsroom Preparations, Media Forensics Offered.
Partnerships and Advantages Students pursuing programs at the School of Media will get special benefits on account of the pacts that the school has signed with various universities in the U.S. These pacts relate mostly to special niche areas like sports media and entertainment technology. More significantly, there are discussions to pursue avenues whereby students can do accelerated master’s degrees from its partner universities in the U.S.Dean’s Corner With its gainful advantages arising out of the partnerships and laying emphasis on the integration between technology and humanities, he claims this to be transformational for anyone coming out of the media and communication fraternity from the school. He lays great emphasis on the need for a digital-first curricular and pedagogic approach that marries technology with humanities, creative with critical thinking, and concepts with practices. The school aims to equip students with a triadic base of competencies—professional, conceptual, and ethical—with which to engage the disinformation challenge in its various formats .Or, more specifically, the School of Media at Mahindra University works toward empowering its future media leaders at the intersection of technology and the humanities. Its undergraduate programs and collaborations are designed to provide students with skills and knowledge relevant to the fast-changing media landscape.
