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23 August 2016 MA in Media and Communication Studies Initiative Volume 7, Issue 8BBengaluru: engaluru city is one Kashinath K,from the Centre of Photograph : Rachel Dsouza Publications,Christ University,of India’s favourable destinations has been actively involved in the Mr Kashinath fondly recalledfor students who wish to graduate development of the Hosur road the old days and added, “Mostfrom elite universities. Christ campus since its inception and of the University belonged to theUniversity has made a name for fondly remembers the days when Dharmaram College. I feel theitself in this regard by providing it was called ‘Christ College’. He greenery around campus plays avaried degrees across many said, “Initially, there was only one vital role in the development of thedisciplines. block which constituted the entire student’s psyche and refreshes andArun Teja, a student from the campus and the remainder of the rejuvenates their senses.”department of International area was filled with trees. In the He concluded by saying that heStudies,Christ University said, late 90’s, we started the practice of hoped the future generations would“I feel relaxed when I see the participating in the Lalbagh flower care for the green landscape andlush greenery around me, it is show which inspired the present understand, observe their intrinsiccomforting and relaxing.” It is Vice Chancellor, Fr. Thomas C beauty and also the balanced playeasy to conclude that the Hosur Mathew to develop the garden between the architecture and theroad campus is recognised as one around the campus. We used to ecosystem that supports holisticof India’s and Bengaluru’s elite stroll around the campus and education in the University.campuses and has also managed to discuss our ideas for developingbag several awards for nearly 30 the green cover.” -Subhajit Paul years now.

All About Research An Interview with ResearchersBengaluru: The technological the following gaps in one’s is the right way to go whileadvancement has opened the gate working on a research project.for budding researchers to explore research, work before jotting down It helps to avoid unnecessaryand come up with high quality deviations. Also, it is as importantresearch. The need to progress a research plan. to be flexible as being specific.is essential as research is what The research plan pattern shoulddrives the future of any country The most important and primary be from broad to specific areaand researchers play a vital role and again from specific to broadin bringing up this change.It is thing is to know the difference application area. The applicationimportant for a researcher to have area is where one attracts thethirst for knowledge. Also, any between research objective and funding organizations.professional, finds a way to stay Key elements like identifyingmotivated by working towards research questions. Research appropriate variables, formingtheir interests. hypothesis based on the same question is how one is going and figuring out the best possible Satisfaction is the evil when sampling technique constitute ait comes to research. When to fill the gap between already good research plan.selecting a research topic or while The above mentioned aspects areconducting a research there are an existing knowledge and natural credited to the discussion witharray of things a researcher needs Prof. Rajesh and Prof. Kannan. S,to keep in mind. phenomenon. Media Studies Department, ChristImportance of review of University.literature: It’s necessary to Methodology: The next thingidentify the gaps in already -Vidyashreeexisting literature and to address to axe is methodology as it is the foundation of any research work. Proper understanding of the methodology is appropriate for a research. Strong conceptual knowledge about the field of study is a must before starting a research. One needs to dig out as much information as one can to understand the area of study. Define your study: Specification

Drama Adds Spice to Life!!!Bengaluru: A duo representing director or a producer, Thespo can “Thespo is a youthThespo, a young theatre group help you find these personalitiesbased in Mumbai flew down to almost immediately. They will theatre movementBengaluru to give the students be able to put you in touch withof Christ University a detailed people who you could benefit from. which conductsorientation on their next edition Once you sign up with Thespo,Thespo 18 on 16 August 2016. they help talent find opportunities. youth national theatreThespo is a youth theatre movement Teena also a performance theatre festivals everywhich conducts youth national student of the University said:theatre festivals every December “It was helpful and fun. They December in Bombay”in Bombay..The students of the have now put forward a fewUniversity attended the orientation opportunities that we as aspiring They will make suggestions on howprogram for Thespo 18 which theatre persons would love to the team can improve on the effectwas conducted by Vivek Rao, the take up. I’m really inquisitive of their script for example like whatDirector of QTP Entertainment and want to know more.” Once kind of music they could have usedPvt Ltd and Vivek Madan who the students are selected, there instead of the one that they areis the Judge for the screening. will be a screening happening currently using etc.The festival is in the month of October 2016. crowd funded and happens everyVedashree, a performance theatre year. This is Thespo’s 18th edition.student of Christ University says: The plays are judged on the basis“I’m happy that I got a chance to of honesty, loyalty, potential of If you have a story or an idea ofattend the orientation by Thespo. It the story or the script and so on. a story, write it down and sendhelped us understand what they’re There are no restrictions while it in to Thespo after registeringafter and what they’re about.” performing the play. It can be in any t h r o u g h W W W. T H E S P O . O R G language. They can be as creative The scripts are screened onIf you are a playwright looking for as they like. All they look for in a the basis of honesty, loyaltya director or an actor looking for a play is genuine actors and passion. and potential of the story etc. -Rose Tomy

Literature- an artefact of languageBengaluru: ‘Srujana’ is a service programme where both the mentioned that society canlearning programme which students and the kids from rural progress at its fullest potentialis a part of the MA English areas could benefit. It was a win- only if each and every one of usLiterature Department. It began win situation for everyone.” acts on making the best version ofin the year 2011 and was quickly Currently tied up with CSA ourselves and not focus on others.incorporated into the syllabus. (Centre for Social Action), they Students who attend theSrujana aims to equip students conduct their classes every programme too are delightedfrom backward communities Saturday at L R Nagar, Bengaluru. to be a part of it. The headwith language skills to give them The response of the programme of the committee, Lis Sanya,an extra edge when they seek has been most impressive said, “During our initial class,for jobs. The intention behind and the changes can be seen we were told to expect 25-30this programme was never a clearly. The kids who are being students but when we arrivedcharitable one instead it was taught can speak perfectly good at the venue, there were only 6designed to serve the self interests communicable English and have students. Though disheartened,of the students so that they could a rich and deep understanding of we immediately modified ourbecome better educators in their prose and poetry. plans and with games and otherprofessional careers. fun activities, imparted that day’s She added, “Literature has always curriculum to the kids.”Shobana Mathews, a lecturer of been under suspicion and it is ourthe English Department said, “It goal as the English department The programme hopes to extendwas during a class discussion to alleviate the concerns of the beyond the bounds of theway back in 2011 that we decided people and teach language to university and plans to tie up withto formulate a service learning those who are in dire need of it. If an NGO in the coming days and you consider Literature to be an increase the extension beyond L artefact of language, then our aim R Nagar and hopefully teach a becomes very clear.” large number of students at the same time. Srujana follows the principles of the American Philosopher, -Pratap Pranay Bertrand Russell, wherein he

CAPS - Know yourselfBengaluru: The CAPS Assessment an insight into what might be the would be more suited for a studentWing (CAW), which is a part appropriate career path. pursuing their career in science orof Centre for Academic and the one who wants to become aProfessional Support, Christ The test was conducted in the scientist.University, conducted their latest classrooms and registrations were This was conducted under theventure ‘Testing Times’ on 17 and open to the entire University via guidance of the CAPS coordinator,18 August 2016, in the University. email. Students applied in huge Mr Sabu John,from the DepartmentA personality test was conducted numbers and the ones who did not of Psychology and was assistedfor the students who had get into the current slots had an by the student coordinator, Umaregistered for this programme. option of choosing from the dates Maheswari.This personality test helped one given in September. The team will conduct theme-to understand their characteristic based tests every month to help thetraits in detail, along various Christ University has many students understand themselvesdimensions and accordingly gave youngsters who are pursuing and their traits better. The different different vocations and courses. themes would include interest, Some of them may aptitude, intelligence and so on. still not be clear as There are volunteers from the to which career to Department of Psychology working choose and what for CAW who are also in charge of their future looks conducting and invigilating the like. The test will tests. definitely help the students get -Rose Tomy an insight. For example, a thinking personality testA Sound InterviewBengaluru: Christ University’s cameras to record whole video mac pros byCentre for Concept Design(CCD) is an audio recording sessions. For audio production, Apple which isstudio, equipped withprofessional softwares and tools we do have Pro tools HD with entirely lit up bydesigned to give the studentshands on experience. Here’s c24 control surface, similar to camera lightingwhat Mr Nishant Fernandes, aSound Engineer at the CCD had what’s been used in Hollywood with a DMX which goes alongto say about the Studio and itsequipments for audio production. None of with a lighting kit. That’s the listQ the other universities have this of equipment in the studio. What kind of instrumentsdo we use in the ccd, which Qfacility for their students, such What was your thoughtprovides students theopportunity to develop the high end equipments we alsoskills in audio production? have a broadcast setup, in caseNishant: three sony full hd there’s a newscast for media behind putting up a studio of students, they get the feeling such high monitoring? of working in a studio where in Basically the studio’s purpose you get the blue n green chroma is to enlarge the vision. It king shooting environment with is primarily for the media a tele prompter which is exactly department so that we can what is used in a news station have access to the industry’s for broadcasting. They work on equipment. It’s not enough work stations. We have three if they only learn the theory,

they also need to know how to Qand they are all more or less 10 What were the initialpractically use the technology. minutes long. It is 10 minutes ofWe have a team of specialiststo work with different courses great education and has so much challenges you faced whileto use technology to the best oftheir abilities, in order to provide visual content that the students coming up with the creation ofstudents an experience apartfrom the classroom environment. can’t miss it. The CCD is also CCD?We also have an online coursemodule known as ‘Mooc’, which used to produce promo videos for The equipment we had was notis accessible to everyone in theuniversity. The entire faculty in Qdifferent events in the college. up to the mark. We convincedthe University, which comes upto about a thousand lecturers, take the management to invest apart in workshops and are trained topresent a lesson or a course online As a teacher, what is your huge amount in the studio. Tothrough the same medium. Thesecourses are then later uploaded on vision of the growth of CCD in convince the management was oneMoodle, where the students canaccess them from anywhere and the college campus? challenge, but they were happylearn from where they are. As a part of the faculty teaching with the plan. The other issue wasQ So this kind of production music and Media, we have started academic diversity, a large numbermakes the CCD a special placefor the staff as well as the kind of Audio production wherein we look of people from various departmentseducation that the college looksforward to giving? forward to creating a professional wanted to make use of the studio.. Absolutely. Because we have a music album that is to be published To be able to cater to all studentsvariety of 1000 videos that are shotand edited from scratch by our internationally. Music production of all departments, was anotherown staff, which they are trained todo. There are 1000 videos online is one of our primary aims this big challenge. Because production year, having already produced 2 is not an hour or two’s job, It is a songs, and we hope that in a couple tedious process which involves of months we will be able to , preparation, post production, produce something internationally. editing and everything to be done This is just the beginning and we on time. Thus, time management want to see how far this will go is another challenge we face. with the students of the campus, Coupled with these issues we are a and just to note: What we mean by small team of three working here, production is, the students know with Fr. Benny Thomas who was how to produce their works, not responsible for the inception of that they come and perform and CCD. have it produced for them. They know how it’s done, and how to -Rachel Dsouza launch it for themselves.

The Labour of Youth Photograph : Rachel DsouzaBengaluru: The “National Level increase in the dropout rate at child rights and also proved to be schools. an indication of their intelligenceCapacity Building Workshop for and acute and astute awareness After the inaugural ceremony, of the problems that surroundedChild Rights Social Workers” was four plenary sessions were them. conducted; three plenary sessions Followed by the open houseconducted on 18 August 2016 at were conducted on day one of the session, the participants were workshop while the fourth plenary divided into three different groupsChrist University. session was conducted on the and each group was given a specific second day of the workshop. topic. Each group discussed amongThe inaugural address was Once the sessions concluded, an their group members together and Open House session enabled all came up with new models anddelivered by Mr R Ragavendra the participants to express their recommendations in relation to the opinions and thoughts in relation to topic given to them. This divisionJannu, Commissioner of Labour, child labour and child trafficking. of people enabled each group to The participants came up with have a different perspective on theGovernment of Karnataka. In his different ideas and suggestions issue and ensured that no two ideas which reflected their deep presented would be the same.speech he expounded the new commitment towards protection of Once each group had finished its discussion, each group member was‘Anti Child Labour Action Plan’ given the opportunity to present their ideas and recommendationswhich was under the process of with all the other participants of the program. The session wasbeing drafted by the Government moderated by Dr. Hemalatha, Department of Social Work, Christof Karnataka. University.The key note address was delivered -Sachin Athialyby Mr. Lukose Vallatharai,Independent Consultant, PublicPolicy where he highlighted twoimportant factors whichhave led to an

Flavours for the Palate high pressure environment of a The restaurant will be looked restaurant so that when they work after by the 3rd year students in an actual set up, they are not on Wednesday and they will be fazed by the demands of it.” The restaurant will be functioning in charge of F&B production, on two days of the week for now, F&B specialization, front office Wednesday and Friday. Wednesday management and the mechanics of will focus on gourmet European the bakery. Friday too will have the delights while Friday will take a look at the traditional regional cuisines of India. Radhakrishna added, “We aim to provide an entire panorama of flavours for the students and soon hope to be operational during theThe upcoming restaurant named, lunch hours for all six days of the same four departments functioning‘Palate’ is a brand new initiative week. As of now, we just want to but the 4th year students will beby the Department of Hotel focus on the quality of the food in charge of the operations onManagement. This is a one of and ensure that both the guests this day. The restaurant will opena kind restaurant in the college and the students who work at the its doors on the 24th of August,campus which will serve a restaurant have a nourishing and 2016 and bookings along with thevariety of cuisines and dishes that wholesome experience” choice of cuisine will have to benormally cannot be found in the made two days in advance.college canteens.Radhakrishna, the student -Pratap Pranaycoordinator of the restaurant, said,“This restaurant is the first of itskind in India and the objective is toteach the students about the processof managing a restaurant and givethem hand on training at the sametime. We want them to know theThe Team Faculty In-charge Pratap Pranay Suparna Naresh Rachel Dsouza Fr.Biju K Chacko Rose Tomy Sachin Athialy Subhajit Paul Vidyashree KumarFOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY