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Admission Notice for
Diploma in Disaster Management 2007–2008
Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies 2007–2008
Tata Institute Of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Greeting

The application for the Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies and Diploma in Psychosocial care and support in Disaster Management is out. This is the first time that this independent centre if offering this diploma course.

Kindly put up this announcement for the fellow Manipuris

Diploma In Psychosocial Care And
Support In Disaster Management

Disasters are out-of-the ordinary experiences, causing distress and emotional reactions in almost all affected, including disaster workers. The emergency response priorities in a disaster situation are the provision of basic life support needs, ensuring the security of disaster survivors, and the provision of psychological and social support.

These services would ensure normalizing routines and helping survivors resume activities of daily living as quickly as possible so that it hastens rehabilitation and enhances coping with the distress that results from the disaster.

Psychosocial care for disaster survivors and disaster workers, though very crucial, has received recognition only in recent years. As a result, post-disaster responses in psycho-social care have been sporadic.

To respond to this growing understanding of psychosocial care and support in disaster management, the diploma programme will prepare a team of professionals equipped to respond to psychosocial care and support needs, at micro and macro level, as well as supervise, train and develop human capacity in disaster management.

Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies
Information Brochure 2007-2008

Why should I consider a Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies?
In contemporary society, media and culture are crucial sites where identities are produced and popular ways of seeing are consumed. While the media set agendas, audiences/users negotiate these within a complex matrix of power and resistance. In a globalising world, vertical integration of media empires co-exists with greater democratisation and access through the internet. Our contemporary mediascapes are contested and dynamic spaces, constantly throwing up new challenges for media production, research and activism.

There are contradictory responses to these changes, on the one hand, ‘moral panic’ about the danger to ‘Indian’ culture, demands for more state censorship and vigilante attacks on freedom of expression. On the other, there are renewed forms of resistance and subversive redefinitions of self and community that question the ‘normal’.

People’s movements and campaigns are increasingly using media and communication technologies for networking, advocacy and visibility. An engagement with the techniques and aesthetics of media production has to be based on a critical understanding of contemporary media and culture, whether we are media researchers, producers or consumers.

Cultural Studies enables us to meaningfully engage and interact with these new modes of being and doing. By making us conscious of the many complex ways in which power impinges on our lives and constructs our cultures, it has the potential of empowering us to critically read the media and other cultural institutions and artefacts, to understand how they shape our identities and to think about how we could possibly shape them.

This one year, fulltime post-graduate Diploma programme in Media and Cultural Studies thus works towards honing skills of media production and research within a framework that enables the development of a critical perspective on media, culture and society.

What might I go on to do after this Diploma?
This Diploma aims at enabling the creation of a lively group of young media ‘thinking do-ers’ and ‘doing thinkers’ who could then choose to branch out into a diverse range of work or educational situations.

It is envisaged that students of this course might make choices that include working with NGOs and media organisations, becoming independent media practitioners, opting for more specialised professional courses or media and cultural studies research oriented educational Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies programmes.

This course not only responds to existing human resource needs expressed by industry and civil society but also aspires to facilitate the creation of active, engaged individuals who seek out new opportunities in various emerging job and educational spaces.

IMPORTANT DOWNLOADS:

Information Brochure,
Diploma In Psychosocial Care And
Support In Disaster Management 2007–2008
- here (pdf - 1,352 KB) .
Information Brochure,
Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies
2007–2008
- here (pdf - 1,062 KB) .
Application Form for Admission to
Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies, 2007–2008
- here (pdf - 42 KB)
Application Form for Admission to
Diploma In Psychosocial Care And
Support In Disaster Management 2007-2008
- here (pdf - 39 KB)

All the best

Hanjabam Shukhdeba S.
Integrated MPhil-PHD Scholar
Centre for Research Methodoogy
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Mumbai -400088, India

This announcement was provided by Hanjabam Shukhdeba to e-pao.net . You can contact him at hanjabam(at)gmail(dot)com . This education announcement was webcasted on July 18, 2007.

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