EVALUATIVE REPORT DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 1. Name of the department: JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 2. Year of Establishment: 2003 3. Names of Programmes/ Courses offered: (UG, PG, MPhil, PhD, Integrated Masters, Integrated PhD etc. 4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/ units involved 5. Annual/ semester/ choice based credit system (programme wise) UG (B.A. HONOURS) Under Graduate: Annual System as per University of Calcutta norms 6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments COURSE FACULTY PARTICIPATION AS 7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions etc. 8. Details of courses/ programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons 9. Number of Teaching Sanctioned posts sanctioned and Professor filled Associate Professor Filled Assistant Professor 460
CWTT 3 3 PTT 1 1 Guest Teacher 1 1 10 Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./ D.Litt./ Ph.D./ M. Phil. etc.) Name Qualifi cation Designation Specialization No. of Years of Exp. No. of PhD Students Maulisri MA CWTT (Govt. Mass Comm. 14YRS Chattopadhyay Approved) Advertising Editing Nabanita MA CWTT Media Law and 4 YRS Bhattacharjee Ethics P.R Abhishek Das MA CWTT Radio and TV Media Management 4YRS Shikhi Chatterjee MA PTT (Govt. Approved) National and International affairs 10YRS Sraboni Roy Maity (UPTO 2014) Sri. Sumanta Bandopadhyay MA CWTT International affairs and media management 10YRS MA Guest Film Studies 8YRS Teacher Smt. Eashika Chakraborty Smt. Priyanjali Neogi MA MA Guest Teacher Guest Teacher Public Relations 6YRS - 3YRS Sri Kabi Bakshi MA Guest Teacher - 10YRS 11. List of senior visiting Visiting Faculty Institute faculty 12 Percentage of lectures delivered by temporary faculty 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) 1 st Yr: Practical- 14.8% 2 nd Yr: Practical 22.2% 3 rd Yr: Theory- 1.11%; Practical- 16.66% Session UG 2011-12 25:1 461
14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled 15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc,/Ph.D./ MPhil/PG 16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received: 17 Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. 18. Research Centre/ facility recognized by the GLI 2012-13 30:1 2013-14 35:1 2014-15 41:1 POST SANCTIONED FILLED Laboratory Assistant Laboratory Attendant P.G- 5 2 2 1 1 University 19. Publications: a) Publication per faculty b) Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (bl. national /b2.international) by faculty and students c) Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) d) Monographs e) Chapter in Books f) Books Edited g) Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers h) Citation Index i) SNIP j) SJR k) Impact factor l) h-index 462
FACULTY a b1 b2 c d e f g h i j k l Srabani Roy Maity 6 4 2 (upto 2014) Sumanta Bandopadhyay 2 1 1 PUBLICATION LIST : IN ANNEXURE I 20. Areas of consultancy and income generated: 21. Faculty as members in a) National Committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards. a)national Committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Board 22. Student projects a) Percentage of students who have done inhouse projects including inter departmental/ programme For 2 nd and 3 rd year students it is 100% who do in--house project. The 1 st year students also do the class project on editing and other related subjects. For example, they have done projects on Types of headlines published in newspapers. b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/ Industry/ other agencies 10 to 15% of the students do internship in different newspaper houses, ad agencies and P.R. agencies and audio-visual channels, production houses. some of the cases are cited below: 1)Somdip Roy: Photography in Ajker Sampurna 2) Neil Ray: Event management at MTV India 3)Sreetama Mukherjee: Public relations at Ardmore events and P.R 4)adri Sarkar: The Statesman 5)Ranaroop Nag: Production Assistant Amazing Race Canada. 463
23. Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students: Awards received by students in ANNEXURE II 24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the department: 1. Prof. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, Former Head of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Ph.D committee. Member, Journalism and Mass Communication. University of Calcutta. 2. Mr. Abir Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department, S.A. Jaipuria College, Board of studies chairman UG council, University of Calcutta. 25. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops organized & the source of funding a) National: The department organised one workshop on REPORTING NEWS ITEMS jointly with Department of Communicative English on 13 th November, 2009. The Speaker was Mr. Saumen Dutta, Principal Correspondent of Hindustan Times. The Department organised a promotional programme of Bengali Film SAADA KALO AABCHA on 21 st November on 21 st 2013 with the Director Ringo, Cast Members and Producer in the Department. The Department organised an academic seminar on CORPORATE COMMUNICATION: FUTURE AND PROSPECT jointly with Communicative English Department on 6 th October, 2010. Seminar on Scope of Higher Studies in Mass Communication and Media on 12.9.2014, organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Communicative English and English Two-day anchoring workshop in collaboration with Autograph Institute, Kolkata organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Date: 27.01.2015 & 28.01.2015 b) International: NIL 464
26. Student profile programme/ course wise: Name of the Programme: B.A. with JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (Honours) (UG) Year Applicatn Selected Enrolled Year Pass No. 1 st Rcvd M F % Class 2015-16 2310 61 21 40 2015-16 98.41 4 2104-15 2018 102 49 53 2104-15 100 4 2013-14 1562 74 32 42 2013-14 100 0 2012-13 1354 88 37 51 2012-13 93.55 2 NB: Admission Record of 1 st Year and Pass percentage of outgoing 3 rd Year 27. Diversity of Students Name of the Course: : B.A. with JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (Honours) (UG) Year % of Students from the same state % of students from other States % of students from abroad B.A. Ist Year 93% 7% X (HONS.),2015 B.A. Ist Year 89.80% 8.16% 2.04% (HONS.),2014 B.A. Ist Year X (HONS.),2013 B.A. Ist Year (HONS.),2012 0.88% 28 How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. Data not available 29. Student progression: Student Progression Against % enrolled UG to PG 69.38% (2013-2014) PG to M.Phil Data not available PG to Ph.D Data not available Employed Data not available Campus Selection Data not available Other than campus recruitment Data not available Entrepreneurship/Self Employment Data not available 30. Details of Infrastructural facilities Library: Books in Central Library: 21 465
Books in Reading Library: 46 Books in Seminar Library: 143 Journals : Two 1) Asian Journal of Communication Published by Routledge ISSN NO: 0129-2986 2) Vidura- A journal of Press Institute of India ISSN NO: 0042-5303 (b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Available. Details of the computer facility are given below: CONFIGURATION NUMBER Desktop : Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.8 GHz processor, 1GB RAM 5 DDR2 667RPM, HDD 250GB Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.8 GHz processor, 1GB RAM 5 DDR2 SDRPM, HDD 250GB SATA Desktop: Intel i3 2 nd Generation, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, 5 Windows 8 Original Desktop: Intel Core i3 3.4 GHz processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500 GB 10 SATA HDD Laptop : Intel i3 2 nd Generation, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, 1 Windows 8 Original Printer: Colour Laserjet HPPro M252DW 1 (c) Class rooms with ICT facility: The Department uses a laptop and a LCD projector with tripod.some movie CDs and Documentary CDs are shown regularly to the 3 rd year students of the department as FILM is part of their curriculum. (d) Laboratories: 1 A.C lab Sl. No. Product Year 1 Switch 8 Port-1 2011 LAN Cable- 1 Connector-4 2 Motherboard-1 2012 RAM 4GB -1 DVD Writter-1 Antivirus-1 Wireless Card-1 3 Desktop Computer-5 UPS-5 2012 466
4 SPLIT A.C.-2 5 Handycam Camera -3 2013 Tripod -3 6 Laptop-1 2013 7 LCD Projector-1 2013 Tripod screen -1 8 UPS- 1 2015 9 BIOS Battery UPS, Keyboard, Mouse, 500GB Hard disk, 2015 15.4 LED Monitor 31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies Avijit Das: Oasis Scholarship Subhendu Pathak : Merit Cum means Scholarship Indrani Mukherjee: Merit Cum means Scholarship and Kanyashree 32. Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) with external experts: The department organised one workshop on REPORTING NEWS ITEMS jointly with Department of Communicative English on 13 th November, 2009. The Speaker was Mr. Saumen Dutta, Principal Correspondent of Hindustan Times. The Department organised a promotional programme of Bengali Film SAADA KALO AABCHA on 21 st November on 21 st November, 2013 with the Director Ringo, Cast Members and Producer in the Department. The Department organised an academic seminar on CORPORATE COMMUNICATION: FUTURE AND PROSPECT jointly with Communicative English Department on 6 th October, 2010. Seminar on Scope of Higher Studies in Mass Communication and Media on 12.9.2014, organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Communicative English and English Speaker: Ranita Hirji, Dean of studies 467
Convergence Institute of Media, Bangalore Date:12.09.2014 33 Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: Two-day anchoring workshop in collaboration with Autograph Institute,Kolkata organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Date: 27.01.2015 & 28.01.2015 Audio Visual aids are taken to describe certain theories. Special remedial classes and tutorials are taken for the backward students. Tutorial classes for S.C. and S.T. students are taken. Written practical are taken care of specially. Anchoring practical are taken care of specially. Viva are taken care of specially. 34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities: NAME Smt. Sraboni Roy Maity Smt.Maulisri chattopadhyay Smt. Nabanita Bhattacharjee Sri.Sumanta Bandoapadhyay Smt. Shikhi Chatterjee Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities Internal Examiner and External examiner of CU (UG) Journalism and Mass Communication Seminars Attended: National :3 Paper Setter and Internal Examiner and External examiner of CU (UG) Journalism and Mass Communication Seminars Attended: National :5 International: 1 Internal Examiner and External examiner of CU (UG) Journalism and Mass Communication Seminars Attended: National :2, International: 4 Presentation:National:1 Workshop Attended: 1 Internal Examiner and External examiner of CU (UG) Journalism and Mass Communication Seminars Attended: 468
National :2 Workshop Attended: 1 Smt. Eashika Chakraborty Seminars Attended: National :2 Presentation: National: 3 Abhishek Das Seminars Attended: National :5 Presentation: National: 1; International: 1 Workshop attended : 2 35 SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans Strengths: Producing University toppers at regular level. Regular classes Completion of syllabus on time Good and healthy student teacher relationship. Unity among faculty and departmental staffs Weaknesses: Opportunities: Challenges: Future plans: No teacher in the substantive post Imbalance in student teacher ratio Lack of technical equipments (Camera, Computers) Lack of Smart class room Lack of proper studio set up Different social issues could be introspected through the topics of practical (Both dissertation and audio visual capsules) To make students critical media follower The department plans to publish a departmental peered reviewed Journal with ISBN/ISSN Registration The department also plans to conduct an exhibition of documentaries prepared by the students during their academic session. The Department further plans to conduct annual photography exhibition by the students. The department plans to give a practical industry based knowledge by experts working in the various fields of Journalism and Mass Communication. 469
ANNEXURE-I: DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION LIST OF PUBILICATION BY FACULTY: Smt. Sraboni Roy Maity Sl. Name of books/journals. Title ISSN/ISBN No. Year 1. PR Communication Age 2. Global Media Journal Indian Edition. 3. Indian Journal of Marketing. 4. CLIO An Interdisciplinary Journal of History. 5. Book: Child Exploitation: Exposing the Unseen. 6. VIDURA- A Journal of the Press Institute of India. 7. Book- Mass Media and Society in Post Globalization. 8. Communicator- Journal of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication Vol. XLIV No.1 Public Relation: Key to Social Responsibility. Exploring the possibilities of the use of Right to Information: A Case Study on Joint Forest Management. Pester Power: The Strategic Use of Child Model in Advertising. SNIP: 0.147, SJR: 0.147 Identity Assertion in the age of Modernization: A Case Study of a Bengal Puppet Group. Public Awareness and Human Rights: Perspective of Development Communication in West Bengal. Women Provide Lesson in Disaster Management. In Search of Identity of Folk Media in the Age of Globalization. Communicating Disaster: Participatory development in West Bengal 0972-0650 July 2010 2249-5835 December 2010 0973-8703 January 2012 0976-075XCLIO ISBN 978-81- 89630-69-0 Jan-Dec 2011 2012 0042-5303 Jan- March 2013 ISBN- 2013. 13:97893806 01984(Hbk) ISSN NO- 0588-8093 Jan.-Dec. 2013. 470
9. Book- Advances in Extension Education and Rural Development. Vol. 3. Role of Women In Disaster Management. ISBN-978-81- 7754-531-9. 2014 Sumanta Bandoapadhyay Publications 1. Paper Published in Book (ISBN) Book: The Diasporic Dilemma Exile, Alienation and Belonging Editor: Dr. Pardipta Mukhrejee and Dr. Sojal kumar Bhattacharya Publisher: Creative Books, New Delhi Year: 2015 2. Paper Published in Journal (ISBN) Journal: Volume III; 2013 3. Article Published in Newspaper i. Dainik Statesman: June 9,2013 ii. Dainik Statesman: April 26, 2015 4. Article Published in Magazines i. Atmaja: Year V, October 2011; Vadodara; Gujrat ii. Atmaja: Year VI, October 2012; Vadodara; Gujrat iii. Aparajito: Year 31; No.1-2; Jan-June 2012, Kolkata iv. Muktodhara: Autumn 2014; Year: I; Howrah 471
ANNEXURE II: Awards received by the students Name Award Session Arkajeet Banerjee Debate competition Xavullash 2015 & sanghoti (1 ST 2015 Prize) Gokhale Memorial Girls College, Inter-college Debate (1 ST Prize) 2015 Subhendu Pathak Indrani Mukherjee Writing selected in Competition Success Review topic named NITI AAYOG (Writing selected) National TV show (Qualified) The TelegraphYou Your Campus Buddy TOPIC: Marriage is an outdated institution (1 ST Prize) The TelegraphYou Your Campus Buddy TOPIC:Beauty Pagents Should be banned (1 ST Prize) 2014 2014 2014 2014 Sovan Chanda B.A part I (Hons.) 1 st class 1st 2014 Ayan Das B.A part I (Hons.) 1 st class fourth 2014 Sneha Matia B.A part II (Hons.) 1 st class 2nd 2014 Raktim Saha Ramkrishna Mission Photography Course (1 st Prize) 2014 Mohammad Affanul Haque Kalidoscope 2014 Lady Brabourne College (2nd Prize) 2014 Login Astitwa NSHM Kolkata,Quiz Competition 2014 (2nd Prize) UMANG The Bhawanipore education Society 2014 College India Quiz(2nd Prize) Samadrita Banerjee Quiz Contest Vivek Chetna Utsav (1 ST Prize) 2014 Priyanka Das Bollywood Group Dance (2nd Prize) 2014 Arghya Bardhan B.A part III (Hons.) 1 ST CLASS 1 ST 2012 Rimita Saha B.A part III (Hons.) 1 ST CLASS 2 nd 2012 Sneha Matia B.A part III (Hons.) 1 ST CLASS 1 ST 2015 Jiniya Chakraborty B.A part III (Hons.) 1 ST CLASS 3 rd 2015 Sarnab Chakraborty Kolkata District Youth Parliament Contest2015-2015 472
Sarnab Chakraborty, Arkajeet Banerjee, Damayanti Giri, Arghyadeep Dutta Sukrit Das & Priyankar Patra 16(organised by Govt. Of West Bengal) Kolkata District Youth Parliament Contest2015-16(organised by Govt. Of West Bengal) 1 st Prize in Loreto College Inter-College Documentary festival 2015 2016 ANNEXURE III: Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities Sraboni Roy Maity Public Awareness and Human Rights- Perspective of Participatory Communication in West Bengal.Dept. of Criminology and Police Administration JHAA College in Collaboration with Indian Society of Criminology.13 th -14 th December 2012. JHAA College Chennai. Communication and Culture - A study on Contemporary Santali Communication. Dept. of Mass Communication University of Burdwan in Collaboration with MAKAIS, under the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. 19-20 November 2014.Burdwan University. Participated in a UGC Sponsored Seminar titled Present Scenario and Future Prospects of Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology, Organized jointly by the Departments of Botany and Microbiology, Asutosh College and Bose Institute Kolkata, at Asutosh College on March 2011. Smt. Maulisri Chattopadhyay UGC Sponsored Seminar titled Present Scenario and Future Prospects of Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology, Organized jointly by the Departments of Botany and Microbiology, Asutosh College and Bose Institute Kolkata, at Asutosh College on 9 TH AND 10 TH March 2011 UGC Sponsored Seminar titled Ami Bichitrer Doot, Organized jointly by the Post Graduate Department of Bengali, Asutosh College and Passchimbanga Bangla Academy, at Asutosh College on 6 TH AND 7 TH September, 2011 International Seminar On Communication :Key To Extension, Organised By Department of Adult Continuing Education & Extension, Jadavpur University on 11.12.2012 UGC Sponsored Seminar on Vivekananda: The Nation Builder Organised By Asutosh College in 473
Collaboration With The Ramkrishna Mission Institute Of Culture On 4 th & 5th February,2013 Half-day Seminar organised by ALL BENGAL PRINCIPALS COUNCIL in collaboration with ILEAD on EMPOWERING HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY(ICT) on 7th June, 2014 One-day UGC-Lecture on Gender And Identity: Some Philosophical Reflections organised by the department of philosophy, Asutosh College on 20.03.2015 Abhishek Das PAPER PRESENTATION A Study on the information flow in the SAARC Region at 1 st International Conference of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Organised by University of Burdwan on Contemporary Media Scenario in South Asian Region. 2014. Resurgence of Bengali Cinema, striking balance between sensible and populist cinema- Srijit Mukhrejee s directorial venture at National Seminar on Cinema of India: Flashback of 100 Years and scripting for the future. Organised by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University. 2015 Seminar Participation One Day Awareness Generation Seminar-cum-Workshop on Security and Disaster Management. Organised by Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. 6 February, 2014. UGC-DEB Sponsored Two- Day National Seminar-cum-Workshop on Theories and Practices of ODL Methodology: A Close Look. Organised by Rabindra Bharati University, Directorate of Distance Education. 21-22 March 2014. UGC Sponsored One Day Workshop on Understanding Structure and Dimensions of Screen Writing: An Open and Distance Learning Initiative. Organised by Netaji Subhas Open University. 18th August 2014. Workshop on Panchyat and Rural Development: Recent Experiences in West Bengal Organised by Centre for Studies in Decentralization and Rural Reconstruction (CSDRR), Rabindra Bharati University. 17 January, 2015. UGC Sponsored Five Day Research Workshop, organised by Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. 9-13 March 2015. 474
UGC sponsored national workshop on Media Teaching organised by Vijaygarh Jyotish Roy College in December, 2015 Workshop on Social Surfing organized by Centre for Social Research and Facebook. 2016 Sri. Sumanta Bandoapadhyay A. Orientation Programme; 2011 Teaching Film Studies in West Bengal: An orientation Programme organised by: Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. B. Participation in Seminar National Level UGC sponsored Seminar on Contemporary Bengali Literature: in search of Folklore Elements Organised by Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar College for Women and Folklore Congress Association of India. (2011) International Seminar on Communication: Key of Extension Organised by Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension, Jadavpur University (2012) National Conference on Quantum Correlations: Foundation and Application Organised by: Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Indian Statistical Institute and Vidyasagar College for Women (2012) International Seminar on Diaspora and Cultural Exchange Organised by Department of English, History and Political Science, Vidyasagar College for Women(2013) International Seminar on Portrayal of Women In Media: Are They Stereotype? Organised by: Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension, Jadavpur University Paper Presentation in International Seminar (UGC) on Bengla Natak: Oitihya O Adhunikota Organised by: Department of Bengali, Rabindra Bharati University Participation in Workshop Workshop on Prospect and Content of Mass Communication Studies in the contemporary Lights Organised by: Department of Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension, Jadavpur University on 17.08.15 475
Shikhi Chatterjee 1) UGC Sponsored Seminar titled Present Scenario and Future Prospects of Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology, Organized jointly by the Departments of Botany and Microbiology, Asutosh College and Bose Institute Kolkata, at Asutosh College on 9 TH AND 10 TH March 2011 2) UGC sponsored seminar on Vivekananda: the nation builder organised by Asutosh College in collaboration with the Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture on 4 th & 5th February,2013 3) UGC sponsored national workshop on Media Teaching organised by Vijaygarh Jyotish Roy College in December, 2015 Publication Article DHONNOBAD TUKU JANANO DORKAR published on Bengal Times on 20.11.15 Eashika Chakraborty Paper presentation in national seminar a. Changing role of media in democracy (2011) b. Unconventional Science communication through literature(2012) c. Corporate communication a strategic approach (2015) Seminar attended in national seminar 1) UGC sponsored one-day national seminar organised by the department of Chemistry, Mahadevananda Mahavidyalaya, 2011 2) UGC sponsored one-day national seminar organised by the department of Bengali, 2013 476