Get set to enter the exciting world of news and views! The Journalism and Mass Communication programme at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous is comprehensive, student-centric and is focused on getting students ready to ace the challenges of the media industry. Learn the basics of news reporting, editing and production. Gain hands-on experience in producing real-time newspapers, television news segments, radio broadcasts, online news, advertisements and documentaries in our state-of-the-art media laboratories and news room.
The Journalism and Mass Communication programme at Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous equips young women with skill-sets to gain a headstart in the media industry. The programme provides strong theoretical foundations and hands-on practical training in
News reporting
News editing
Journalistic and creative writing
Newspaper and magazine design
Television news production
Basics of radio production
Mobile journalism
Online journalism
Advertising and Public Relations
Photojournalism

The Under-Graduate programme, Bachelor of Vocation (B. Voc), is integrated with the National Skills Qualification Framework to align higher education with skill development to make young graduates more employable for a growing job market through placement and entrepreneurship; and thus generate employable media practitioners. B . Voc courses with their thrust on skills and hands-on training are different from conventional education which focuses only on theory and are thus more viable options for aspiring graduates. Our college was one of the privileged few to be selected by the UGC to start the prestigious B. Voc Course. We accordingly started B. Voc. Visual Communication and Performing Arts. The response and results are outstanding. Graduates are able to get into industry, or begin their own entrepreneurial endeavors smoothly.
Visual Communication is the major paper taught through six semesters. Students, having gone through visual communication will be able
• To ideate, visualize, and execute meaning and aesthetically appealing graphic designs
• To handle professional camera and do professional photographic projects
• To plan and design sound for various media productions
• To script, shoot, edit and produce films and advertisements.
Performing arts (Theatre and Dance) is a minor paper through three years. is Having gone through Performing Arts education and training, students will be able
• To plan and stage plays theatre with all its elements like, writing, direction, stage management, light, sound, acting, makeup, costumes etc. • To choreograph and execute dance shows.
The programme handholds every student to do projects, and help them to get into industry, or begin their own entrepreneurial endeavors.
• Every student is part of graphic design, photography, advertisement, and film projects during their 6 semesters of undergraduate programme; which builds their skills and confidence.
• The Students stage a full fledged Theatrical performance (The Debut) in the III year of B voc.
• Skill component is handled by Industry experts.
• Major skills taught are assessed and certified by the Sector Skill Council of India.
• Students have internships and campus placement opportunities.
The course seeks to cultivate a streamlined creative process with training into skills and software needed to practice at industry level, like-

• Graphic Designing
• Photography
• Sound Design
• Scripting
• Cinematography
• Film direction
• Filmmaking
• Advertisement

The course also has Performing Arts (Theatre and Dance), enabling students to write and stage plays; and choreograph and perform dance.

We welcome all kinds of students with their varied experiences to learn with us. It would be far too naive to believe that each fresh student or batch that gets admitted have an aptitude similar to the previous batch. Thus we begin with the students. Provide platforms to test their strengths and help incubate ideas, build bridges of contacts and goodwill between academia and industry, and offer different platforms that equip the students not only to find a living, but also to be prepared to thrive through all the seasons and challenges of life. Here are some amazing distinct highlights of studying media at Jyoti Nivas College.

The availability of equipment and media infrastructure is the backbone of effective training in media. Keeping in mind the fast-changing nature of media technology, the Centre is equipped with independent audio, video, news, and performing art studios, and editing labs with software.

We have annual media job-fair where varied companies come to the campus to recruit students for internships, jobs, and also to give guidance on higher studies in India and abroad.

Students take their learning beyond classrooms by voluntarily forming into peer-learning and specialized-learning clubs, called, Avant Garde Circles. We have faculty mentored Avant Garde Circles for writing, film, radio, design & photography and performing arts. They share ideas, work together at projects, invite experts to address, and thus take their learning to the next level.

Media students make their presence and contribution to the campus with their regular publication of campus newspaper, online television news bulletin, and radio programmes. Students begin to real-time media practitioners even as they are on campus.

It is sad to see young people, who aspire to be media practitioners, are not able to get to it because they lack facilities & equipments, contacts & network, and support & needed consultancy. We understand that Media field is very competitive and costly; because of which amazing talents and great aspirations go down the drain.
To address the challenge, Jyoti Nivas College has a Media Incubation Centre (MIC); which would serve as an incubation space cum launchpad for aspiring graduating students to build up acumen to gradually get into good media jobs or be entrepreneurs. The students are provided with space to work, and equipments to use so that they can take up their own freelance work, and eventually, when feel confident enough, launch out on their own.
It would be perhaps the first media incubation Centre by a college; and definitely, the first by a women’s college and focusing on the empowerment of women.

Every media student pursues internship at media firms of their interest and passion. At these places of internship students put to use what they have learned and practiced in college, bridge gaps in learning, and test their strengths and weakness; and thus pave the way to their future career.