Course Title Communication Concepts, Models and Theories
Course Code 0321-012-1101 / MSJ1101
Description:
The course is an overview of key concepts of communication and its related fields. It includes definitions, development, scope, purpose, and functions of communications. It details discussions on the communication process and some communication fields, which are necessary for obtaining basic knowledge on Media Studies and Journalism. Several communication models and perspectives will be tackled in the course as well as some guidelines on how to do library research on communication.
Course Title Communication Research
Course Code 0321-012-1201 / MSJ1201
Description:
This is a beginner’s level course that aims to help students become knowledgeable consumers and limited producers of media and communication research. In the scope of this course, students develop skills in gathering, organizing, interpreting, presenting, and evaluating research information competently utilizing appropriate methods.
Course Title Communication and Technology
Course Code 0321-012-2101 / MSJ2101
Description:
The course traces the development of communication technologies and examines their collective and cumulative influence on society and culture. The course also looks at how the social uses of technology shape the development and application of the technology in question. The dialogic nature of the course encourages comparative analysis across history and cultures. The course engages students in the issues of media literacy, cyberbullying, cyber (un)safety, digital cultures, governance, and justice- theoretically and by drawing on their lived experiences – globally, nationally, locally.
Course Title Mass Communication
Course Code 0321-012-2201 / MSJ2201
Description:
This course offers an understanding of the nature, scope, and functions of mass communication and detailed discussion on media industries and their respective structures. It also focuses on the composition and nature of media audience, impact of language and meaning, media effects, and research findings on critical media thinking. The course helps students develop mental faculty for critical thinking on media issues and provides a solid background to carry out research work in the field of mass media.
Course Title Multimedia Communication 1
Course Code 0211-012-2102 / MSJ2102
Description:
In this course, students can utilize their interests and capabilities in a variety of subjects and media. They can create an atmosphere that immerses the viewer into a sensory, emotional, and knowledgeable experience. Classes include image processing software learning, artist’s studio/exhibition visit, demonstrations, and presentations by the instructor, and visiting artists for acquiring skills useful in installation and performance art. Students undertake workshops, gallery/studio visits, reports, seminars, critiques, other cultural events, and the curriculum integration visual exhibition. Expanding the physical boundaries of art, students learn to incorporate a variety of media, including found objects, videos, photographs, digital arts, paintings, drawings, music, sound effects, sculptural materials, human body in their work. At the end of the course, students realize their ability to express a message to the public in an innovative way.
Course Title Multimedia Communication 2
Course Code 0211-012-2202 / MSJ2202
Description:
Building on the foundation of Multimedia Communication, this course explores further the use of different media components – text, images, sound, animation, and especially video – to express ideas in creative ways. The course has both theoretical and practical components. Use of different media components for creative expressions will be studied at theoretical components. Alongside, the students will have the opportunity to acquire relevant skills by participating in workshops on camera operation, sound recording, filming, editing and animation. About half the course is media lab based for providing the students opportunity to practice the skills they learn. The final project is usually a video art which focuses on creative expressions through video/animation.
Course Title Media and the Law
Course Code 0421-012-4101 / MSJ4101
Description:
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 Title Visual Communication
Course Code 0314-012-2231 / MSJ2231
Description:
This course is intended to introduce undergraduate students from all disciplines to the basic principles of visual communication and equip them with the tools for communicating with various kinds of visual images and objects, which may include photographs, logos, graphics, advertisements, promos, paintings, cartoons, etc. The course will be conducted through a series of lectures, group discussions, presentations, role-plays, and exercises/projects. Through their journey in this course, the students will build their visual vocabulary and develop a toolbox of skills and techniques for communicating visually.
Course Title Cinema Studies
Course Code 0213-012-2232 / MSJ2232
Description:
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 Title Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
Course Code 0314-012-2241 / MSJ2241
Description:
This course brings together the theories and practices of communication among individuals in different contexts, especially in an intercultural setting. The course is divided into two parts. The first part focuses mainly on the basics of interpersonal communication, which provides learners the necessary theoretical knowledge and skills for effective interpersonal interactions. These include techniques in message production, relationship building, interpersonal adaptation, and impression management. The second part deals with intercultural communication, which explores communication skills, models, and theories in a cross-cultural context, particularly on how different cultures filter experience through their own understandings of time, space, conventions, and structures, verbal, and nonverbal communication.
Course Title Strategic Public Relations
Course Code 0314-012-2242 / MSJ2242
Description:
This course will assist students in realizing the importance of public relations (PR), especially in corporate and nonprofit organizations. It will equip students with knowledge and skills in strategic thinking, planning, and communicating information based on recent strategic PR practices. Students will develop skills through hands-on practices of different PR methods and tools relevant to current business landscapes – enhancing their bandwidth of strategic approaches towards solving PR issues and act on achieving organizational goals. Students will also develop expertise in formulating PR campaigns and executing diverse strategic roles for companies in their professional lives.
Course Title Journalism and Society
Course Code 0321-012-2251 / MSJ2251
Description:
This course is a conceptual immersion into the role of journalism in Bangladesh and neighboring countries as a catalyst for social, political, economic, and cultural change. Students will learn the role and value of a free press, examine the principles of reporting, and consider the evolving impact of social media and digital technology on the field today.
Course Title Digital Audience
Course Code 0314-012-2252 / MSJ2252
Description:
The advent of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has created new realities for the media as well as other organizations around the globe. The traditional ways of production, distribution, and consumption of contents, especially news, are constantly being reshaped- redefined. Media, as well as other organizations around the globe, now have a critical need for connecting with audiences on digital platforms to increase impact in literally everything- be it sales or community cohesion. As such, knowing the answers to the following questions has become mandatory to all media organizations: (1) Who are the people who make up digital audiences? (2) How do digital audiences behave? (3) Why is it important to research, identify, and monitor digital audiences and their engagement with your organization?
The course covers the very essence of the digital audience, exploring how community, consumer, social psychology, and theory converge on digital platforms and social networks. Through interactive discussions and case-study analyses, the course teaches how audiences differ across industries and platforms, the elements that engage or dissuade users, and how media organizations use audience data to manipulate growth strategies. The students are required to submit a case study related to digital audience in Bangladesh.
Course title Communication Theories and Applications to C4D
Course Code 0314-012-2261 / MSJ2261
Description:
Through reading and participation in this course, students will develop a basic understanding of how theories fit into Communication for Development (C4D) initiatives. They will be equipped with the knowledge of theories at different levels, i. e., individual level (Health Belief Model, Theory of Planned Behavior, Stages of Change), interpersonal level (Dialogical Approaches, Diffusion of Innovation), community/social level (Social Network Theory and Social Cognitive Theory,) and national level (media theories). The students will also examine the applications of communication in development interventions. By the end of the course, the students will be able to apply theoretical constructs to the design of C4D interventions/strategies.
Course Title C4D Planning and Process
Course Code 0314-012-2262 / MSJ2262
Description:
Much of C4D practices is about developing programs for behavior and social change. Therefore, practitioners must be able to understand the importance of planning, implementing, and evaluating C4D programs. This course highlights the interweaving of these three program elements. It provides an overview of planning models, the role of formative research, monitoring, and impact evaluation.
Course Title Media Presentation and Performance
Course Code 0215-012-3131 / MSJ3131
Description:
The course helps students to develop their skills to perform in front of the camera. This includes script writing and character building, acting, voice and speech recording, presentation, pronunciation and articulation, basic fitness, and posture training along with styling, grooming, make-up, and costume designing. Emphasis will be placed on lectures, practical studio work, and presentations, which are designed to give students a solid foundation of creative skills and techniques to pursue a challenging career in film and television industries.
Course Title Writing for Film and Television
Course Code 0211-012-3132 / MSJ3132
Description:
This course focuses on the basics of scriptwriting for film and television productions to equip the students with required knowledge and skills on the art and craft of writing screenplay for the contemporary industry. Students will be taught about the steps of developing entertainment film script and information film script (TVC/Documentary/PSA etc.). They will also learn about standard script formats. During the course, student are expected to write two scripts, one for entertainment film and another for information film.
Course Title Public Relations Research
Course Code 0314-012-3141 / MSJ3141
Description:
This course introduces students with the significance of research in Public Relations and take them through the research process – formulating the research problem, devising methodologies, collecting, and analyzing data, and presenting the findings, with a particular focus on quantitative research. This will provide students with opportunities to understand the applications of research and evaluation in real-life scenarios.
Course Title Media Relations
Course Code 0314-012-3142 / MSJ3142
Description:
This course helps students better understand the role and practices of media relations and messaging in organizations – public, corporate, NGOs/non-profits, etc. – in the era of new media. Students will develop/intensify skills to research on media and its people, formulate strategic media plans including new media strategies, writing contents, generate media coverage, serve as spokesperson, and handle communication during “crisis”. Alongside individual reading and writing assignments, and group projects, to provide a solid theoretical base, the course employ interactive discussions on Public Relations theories on handling media and crisis, debates and role playing on relevant issues, and invites professionals as guest lecturers to bring insights on industry practices.
Course Title News Sourcing and Gathering
Course Code 0321-012-3151 / MSJ3151
Description:
Producing quality news content depends on putting together several elements – identifying appropriate information sources, gathering information, interviewing sources, doing research, and finding as much information as possible. The course provides students with an understanding of these alongside providing an overview of the journalism industry in Bangladesh. It also provides students with knowledge and skills of fact-checking. Emphasis is also given on a hands-on practice basis on developing/enhancing skills for taking preparation for a story, research, reporting, and the ability to communicate to create and maintain sources.
Course Title Online Journalism
Course Code 0321-012-3152 / MSJ3152
Description:
The course helps students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to create a mark in today’s news industry, which is becoming increasingly digital. In doing so, the course revisits the basics of journalism and the recent developments in the journalistic landscape due to the advancements of ICTs to make students aware which of the basic processes and principles would work in journalistic endeavors on online platforms and what are the ways online journalism is different from the traditional mode. Later, the course focuses on telling stories using ICT tools, e. g. computer, digital audio recorders, handheld cameras, smartphones, etc., on “New Media” platforms like online news portals, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, X (former Twitter), blogsite, etc. The students are expected to develop all-round web-publishing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) skills by the end of the course. Also, they are required to produce 4-6 online news stories (including multimedia) in the areas of (but not limited to) sports, economic, environment, and emergency reporting beats.
Course Title Participatory Research
Course Code 0314-012-3161 / MSJ3161
Description:
The course provides an overview of participatory research and its relevance and applications, especially in the field of development. It helps students understand the concepts (e. g. co-produced knowledge, “main researcher,” “partners,” community action and involvement, etc.) and nuances (e.g. participatory learning, participatory appraisal etc.) in participatory research and gain the necessary methodological skills to design and conduct participatory research projects from beginning to end. Alongside design exercises, students are to engage in practical exercises and observations of professional practices through field trips.
Course Title Communication Approaches for C4D
Course Code 0314-012-3162 / MSJ3162
Description:
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 Title Digital Cinematography
Course Code 0211-012-3231 / MSJ3231
Description:
Digital cinematography provides a cost-effective and increasingly sophisticated means of visual story telling. This course familiarizes students with the technical capacity of digital cameras for lighting, filtration, picture manipulation, high definition and special effects, among other features. Students apply the principles of lighting and composition using the digital camera to create mood and atmosphere in their productions.
Course Title Digital Post Production
Course Code 0211-012-3232 / MSJ3232
Description:
The course builds upon the knowledge and skills of basic digital cinematography. It is a practical course wherein students learn post-production skills such as non-linear digital editing, sound mixing and music effects. Students will be expected to learn computer software and sound equipment, as well as understand basic theories.
Course Title TV Infotainment Production
Course Code 0211-012-3233 / MSJ3233
Description:
This course focuses on helping students acquire a range of skills necessary to produce TV programs. These include research, program development, scheduling, camera placement and movement, editing and post-production. This course also will cover basic production design skills such as sets and costumes. As part of the course requirements, the students will produce a short program for public screening wherein they will work cooperatively with clearly defined production roles.
Course Title Organizational Communication
Course Code 0314-012-3241 / MSJ3241
Description:
This course deals with the internal publics of the institution. It is designed to help students learn about the dynamics of communication within an organizational setting. It will specifically cover how an organization utilizes communication to achieve certain goals and how communication in an organization influences engagements in achieving an organization’s goals. The course will examine strategies for effective upward, downward and sideward communication to influence better performance. The course will also deal with conflicts and conflict management through internal communication.
Course Title Created Private Media
Course Code 0211-012-3242 / MSJ3242
Description:
The course is designed to underscore the importance of created private media – the media for specialized and focused audience. With an emphasis on in-house journals, audiovisual and online media products, the course also discusses other created private media such as educational literature, spoken words, seminars, conferences, company events and private exhibitions. Special emphasis is given on developing/enhancing knowledge and skills of basic audiovisual production techniques, to enable students as a good negotiator between organizations and production peoples.
Course Title Speech Writing and Public Speaking
Course Code 0215-012-3243 / MSJ3243
Description:
This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills of speechwriting and public speaking in its fullest form by teaching them about the various forms of speeches (i.e., business announcements, congressional testimonies, eulogies, political speeches, commencements, etc.) and how to construct them based on the subject, environment, context and audience. The course will require all students to study relevant topics analyses famous speeches in the first half of the semester. The latter half of the semester will require students to plan and write their own speech based on a non-controversial assigned topic and orate it in class. The midterm examination will test the theoretical knowledge of speechwriting and public speaking, while the final examination will test their ability to successfully construct and deliver a speech on their own.
Course Title Mobile Journalism
Course Code 0321-012-3251 / MSJ3251
Description:
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 Title News Editing and Translation
Course Code 0321-012-3252 / MSJ3252
Description:
The course helps students develop/enhance the skills of editing news as necessary and translating them from English to Bangla and vise-versa. The editing skills the course focuses on include copy re-writing, proofreading, news treatment, understanding visuals, and page make-up (print) and page layout/design (online). The course also discusses the theoretical aspects of news editing and translation. It also introduces the students with the ideal profile and functions/responsibilities of a subeditor/copyeditor and newsroom operations, including the gatekeeping role media.
Course Title Data Journalism
Course Code 0542-012-3253 / MSJ3253
Description:
The course provides students with the hands-on training needed to tell data-driven stories in the public interest. The goal is to train students on telling visual stories with — and about — data. They will learn to find stories in data, cleaning data - how to make the data make sense, scraping data - using the web as a data source, visualizing the data – charts, infographics and mapping. As part of the course, students are expected to complete 2/3 data-driven journalism projects, especially in election, health, and sports beats – working to discover and use the tools to fit the job and turning it into a compelling story.
Course Title ICT for Development
Course Code 0612-012-3261 / MSJ3261
Description:
The course is expected to deal with the following issues- Understand the various concepts of development, including how development is measured; Describe the basic concepts of ICT (which includes the social media); Trace the origin, growth and sustaining mechanisms for Digital Bangladesh in public, private and non-government sectors; Analyze the diverse applications of ICT in C4D using the UNESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) aspects of service delivery, citizen uptake and connectivity, Frame policy documents of the Bangladesh government relating to ICT4D, Understand that ICT4D can be utilized for the upliftment of marginalized sectors in society such as women, poor farmers and fishermen, elderly, people with disabilities, etc.
Students will learn the basic concepts relating to ICTs, which includes social media. They will also trace the development of ICT policies and strategies in the country. Finally, they will understand the challenges and prospects of utilizing ICT for development in Bangladesh in the settings of agriculture, health, environment, education, and women empowerment. They will also examine the flagship projects of Digital Bangladesh - Union Digital Centre (UDC), National Web Portal and National Teachers’ Portal, among others.
Course Title Health Communication
Course Code 0314-012-3262 / MSJ3262
Description:
The meanings of health and disease are shaped not only by scientific and medical discourses, but by media, communication, and the cultures of health. This course examines how medical environments are understood and experienced, popular tactics for communicating and contesting biomedical information, the utilization of the media and communication strategies to combat diseases and promote health, and the impact of media representation and popular culture on understandings of disease and health. Readings will be drawn from a variety of genres, including epidemiology, public health, anthropology, social studies and communication studies.
By the end of the course, students will be able to gain an understanding of health communication, its different formats, application and importance, describe the manner in which different disease categories imply different social causes and consequences, examine the personal experience of disease in relation to medical care, risk, and scientific change, compare different media strategies for popularization, advocacy, and intervention in relation to public health and explain the application of communication strategies for development and empowerment among marginalized population groups.
Course Title Emergency Communication
Course Code 0314-012-3263 / MSJ3263
Description:
From the scope of crisis and risk communication, the course will provide knowledge on the basic concepts and nature of emergency situations (such as natural disasters, disease outbreaks, refugee crisis, terrorism, industrial accidents, displacement and similar ones) and how to respond to mass media, related stakeholders and affected people before and after an emergency situation. It explores why communication during an emergency is different and the importance of adapting emergency messages to the needs of affected populations. The course builds the capacities of practitioners to design, develop, manage and undertake an effective emergency and crisis communication campaign.
Understand the nature of emergency situations in a broader perspective. Appreciate the different methods of crisis and risk communication. Explore the use of different communicative ways to respond to mass media, related stakeholders and affected people in the wake of different disasters or emergency situations. Apply the skills learned from the case studies and real-life situations locally and internationally.
Course Title Documentary Production
Course Code 0211-012-4131 / MSJ4131
Description:
This course is the culmination of the Digital Film and TV Production concentration. Students are expected to work cooperatively in clearly defined production roles. The production format is video. In this course students will gain knowledge and practice in different stages of a non-fictional video making process.
Course Title Fictional Narrative Production
Course Code 0211-012-4132 / MSJ4132
Description:
This course is an intermediate aesthetic and technical production course in short-form fictional narrative production. Through screenings, discussions, readings, and creative production projects, students will explore the collaborative process of narrative filmmaking and the conventions of the fiction form. This course builds on the skills and knowledge obtained in the earlier production courses. Students work independently and collaboratively on the production of short media projects using video and digital technologies that provide project-driven experience in the disciplines of writing, producing, directing, camera work, sound, and editing.
Course Title Advertising
Course Code 0211-012-4141 / MSJ4141
Description:
The course introduces the students with the basics of advertising including the concepts, definitions and historical development of the industry. Alongside it discusses the communication theories related to persuasive communication, the role of advertising in marketing communication process and the emerging trends in advertising. The course also introduces the students to different types of advertising, advertising techniques and media, sales promotion, sponsorship and the planning, executing and evaluation process of an advertising campaign. The course also engages students in hands-on training. They design advertising campaigns that include a media-mix of print, radio, TV and social media, and write/produce necessary contents for the campaign.
Course Title Public Relations Campaign
Course Code 0314-012-4142 / MSJ4142
Description:
The course is designed to help students learn public relations campaigns, theoretically and hands-on, from beginning to end. These include identifying the problem, formulating campaign objectives, specifying the audience, formulating PR strategies, planning for implementation and designing monitoring and evaluation strategies. The course requires the students to design, execute, monitor and evaluate a public relations campaign as the professionals do, to present the experience and learning at the end of the semester. This enriches their portfolio and helps them prepare better for the industry.
Course Title Investigative Journalism-I
Course Code 0321-012-4151 / MSJ4151
Description:
This course provides hands-on training on advanced tools and techniques of investigative journalism and impart knowledge of how to ‘go deep’ on a story. It examines the critical role investigative journalism plays in a democratic society. Students will be introduced to the history of investigative journalism and its practices around the world. They will develop a mindset of investigative reporting, learn how to identify potential investigative topics, work with documents and data, interview wide range of sources, and write stories appropriate for multiple journalism platforms in a fair and ethical manner. They will also learn how to use relevant laws such as Right to Information Act in their investigation process, and Whistleblowers' Protection Act to protect their sources. The emphasis will be on fieldwork, combining human sources with first-hand, document-based reporting. By the end of the semester, they will be required to produce at least two multimedia investigative stories of publishable quality. Reporting topics will include (but not limited to) economic and financial issues, agriculture, and environmental reporting.
Course Title Investigative Journalism-II
Course Code 0321-012-4152 / MSJ4152
Description:
The course teaches students how to conduct investigations in the field and sitting in the very newsroom using various online tools (e.g. Google tools, Advanced search engine, photo forensic, InVID, Yandex reverse image, verification guide for photos, TinEye). Students will learn by doing the essential methods required to comb public records, conduct internet forensics, fact-check, and use citizen contents to reveal authentic scoops, translate their scoop into a story that appeals to the audience, and present it using unique media formats to increase impact and raise public awareness. They will learn how to protect data and stay safe online (digital footprint) as well as build their emotional and mental resilience. The students will also be introduced to ethical codes and approaches of investigative journalism in digital environments under the existing Digital Security Act and ICT Act.
Course Title Entertainment Education for C4D
Course Code 0211-012-4161 / MSJ4161
Description:
This course is expected to provide sufficient knowledge to coordinate the overall communication of the community governance project, identify avenue to convey the current messages of the development project for community, real understanding of the project and escape from misinterpretations and doubt, to widen the ability of entertaining of the various social groups as a way of education, to motivate for the community development and to make more participation and cooperation for the community development.
It is expected that students will learn the grassroot participatory methods’ application for various C4D program targeted for rural and marginal community.
Course Title Environmental Communication
Course Code 0521-012-4162 / MSJ4162
Description:
Environmental communication is an area of growing interest within the communication for development discipline; this course provides an overview of its theoretical approaches, research literature, and practical applications. Possible topics expected to cover on this course includes the social construction of nature, and human relationships with nature, through discourse, rhetoric, and communication practices, critical and cultural approaches to environmental discourse, communication about environmental issues in organizational, mass media, political, and international contexts, environment and social impact: knowledge, attitude and practices, communication in environmental advocacy, awareness and social change.
Through this course, students will identify ways in which public discourses socially construct relationships between nature and humans, demonstrate an understanding of critical and cultural approaches to environmental communication, identify and implement communication skills relevant to disseminating environmental information in organizational, political, and international contexts, identify key issues in norms, social change, participation and demonstrate an ability to critically evaluate environmental advocacy, awareness and social change.
Course Title Internship
Course Code 0031-012-4298 / MSJ4298
Description:
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.
Course Title Portfolio
Course Code 0031-012-4299 / MSJ4299
Description:
All students studying at the MSJ Department must create a portfolio over the course of their study. By their final semester of study, students are required to have a file that will showcase the key projects of certain courses that they had taken during their undergraduate study. PLOs 6,7, and 8 will be judged through the portfolio. These PLOs judge whether a student has developed enough communication skills in both English and Bengali, whether the student has demonstrated the ability to manipulate computer software programs and other IT-related equipment, and whether the student has produced an acceptable body of work to join the media and communication industry.