PROGRAMME STRUCTURE----------------------------> TOTAL CREDITS 100

SEMESTER 1: IMAGE AND ENVIRONMENT CREDITS: 21

Core 1: History of Art Credits: 2
This course talks about modern movements in the history of art through artists’ works and styles in the context of ideas and conceptual representations. A panoramic view represents world art from early twentieth century highlighting social changes and their visualizations, expressed in public or private art projects and images. The course includes an arts curation workshop to explore the shifting relationships between society and artists, leading students toward an understanding of the role of artists in the society and international media.

Core 2: Art, Design and Environment Credits: 2
This course provides an opportunity to examine the inter-relationships between the social and cultural and built environment and seeks to examine the nature of social change against the backdrop of discourses on development, politics of identity and globalization. This module would provoke students to reflect on the intersections between the socio-cultural landscape and art and design practice, both traditional and modern.

Core 3: Form and Space 1: Theatre Workshop Credits: 2
An exploration of form and space and their interrelationships is offered through this workshop in theatre. Students will be introduced to basic theories and approaches in theatre as well as basic skills related to dramatic visualization, scripting, acting and stage design.

Core 4: Semiotics and Communication Credits: 2
This course introduces the basic theories and concepts in semiotics and subsequently builds a sustained focus on visual semiotics, cultural semiotics, media semiotics etc. The course equips students with critical thinking and analytical abilities to assess and appreciate the world of visual arts, media, and other forms of communication that surround us today.

Elective 1: Photography / Drawing – Painting Credits: 2
Drawing and photography are the basic skills for those involved in the arts, design and communication. Students would be required choose one of the two skill trainings on offer to sharpen observation and representation, to learn analytical skills through the critique of paintings and photographs and to develop critical appreciation of images and meaning.

STUDIO: IMAGE AND ENVIRONMENT Credits: 10
All the core and elective inputs of the semester are geared towards helping students to work independently in the Studio component of the semester where they would develop a concept in keeping with the semester’s theme and transform it into full fledged creative expression. In the Semester 1 studio, ‘environment’ could be interpreted in a variety of ways – social, cultural, physical or in any other way and the ‘image’ could be visual, audio, haptic or any combination of these or others depending on the students’ approach. Students would be free to choose a medium of expression based on their liking as well as on its appropriateness to the idea they have chosen to focus on.

Ways of Seeing and Saying
Ways of Seeing and Saying will be a series of lectures by eminent scholars from diverse professions and backgrounds who would be invited to present a view or idea or comment on a topic of their choice to illuminate their unique approach to viewing the world around them.

SEMESTER 2: IMAGE IN MOTION CREDITS: 22

Core 1: Aesthetics Credits: 2
Aesthetics refers to the philosophical notion of beauty – in nature, in art and indeed in all aspects of the world around us. This course introduces the student to ways of critically reflecting on ways of seeing, perceiving, appreciating and critiquing the world and, in the process, understanding the role of cultural factors and individual interpretations. T sessions will focus both on Indian aesthetic theories, such as the concept of rasa, as well as western understandings of aesthetics.

Core 2: Art of India Credits: 2
To understand the world art scene, in continuation of the earlier dialogue,, Art of India will introduce students to the rich history and aesthetics of temple art, sculptures, and paintings and talk about the styles representing different eras in the history of India. Moving from the past the course will cover art of post-independence India as well as the contemporary art scene to understand journey of form ( image ) throughout history and its motion in time.

Core 3: Form and Space 2: Dance Workshop Credits: 2
In continuation of Form and Space 1 in the earlier semester, an exploration of form and space and their interrelationships is offered through this workshop in dance. Students will explore the formal expressiveness of the body through gesture, posture and movement as well as the body’s relationship to space and time in the medium of dance.

Elective 1: Film Making Workshop / Animation Workshop Credits: 3
In this Elective a choice is offered to students who could opt for either a film making workshop or an animation workshop depending on their interest. The film making workshop is an introduction to the art and craft of film making and will take the student through the process from scriptwriting, preparing storyboards to the actual production of a short film including exposure to cinematography and editing.
The Animation Workshop will introduce students to basic skills in animation including various kinds of animation software. In addition, students will learn how to write scripts, develop characters and actually execute a short animation film during the course of the workshop.

Elective 2: Advertising Film Production / Television Film Credits: 3
This elective offers exposure to two commercial domains of art-design production – advertising and television film production through workshops conducted by practitioners in both fields.

STUDIO: IMAGE IN MOTION Credits: 10
All the core and elective inputs of the semester are geared towards helping students to work independently in the Studio component of the semester where they would develop a concept in keeping with the semester’s theme and transform it into full fledged creative expression. In the Semester 2 studio, the ‘image’ would be explored in its relation to time and motion. As earlier, these could be interpreted depending on the students’ approach. Students would be free to choose a medium of expression based on their liking as well as on its appropriateness to the idea they have chosen to focus on.

Ways of Seeing and Saying
Ways of Seeing and Saying will be a series of lectures by eminent scholars from diverse professions and backgrounds who would be invited to present a view or idea or comment on a topic of their choice to illuminate their unique approach to viewing the world around them.

BETWEEN SEMESTERS 1 & 2
INTERNSHIP Credits: 9

SEMESTER 3: VIRTUAL WORLDS CREDITS: 23

Core 1: Being Digital Credits: 2
What are the challenges of being in a digital world? How are human interactions and relationships transformed by new technologies? How do technologies, human societies and globalization intersect? These are the questions that will be under scrutiny in this course.

Core 2: Medium and Meaning Credits: 2
This module investigates the debates around the creation of meaning and in particular looks at the role of the medium in the process. The course will draw upon communication theories, media sociology and the behavioural sciences in its explorations.

Elective 1: Interdisciplinary Studies Credits: 3
The historical need for professional specialization is being complemented with a need for multi dimensional and unified approaches as a response to the grave and urgent problems that society faces. The young professional needs to have experience of such dialogic work processes.

Elective 2: Thoughts and Thinkers Credits: 3
This course will introduce modern philosophies and commentaries on the nature of beauty. It aims to sensitize students towards life by integrating different views and developing a critical ability to analyse and appreciate concepts of beauty.

Elective 3: Travel Credits: 3
A journey is a means not only to explore the outside world but to search one’s own self too. This elective will facilitate outward and inward journeys enabling students to interact with life in various situations and to learn from live experiences.

STUDIO: VIRTUAL WORLDS Credits: 10
All the core and elective inputs of the semester are geared towards helping students to work independently in the Studio component of the semester where they would develop a concept in keeping with the semester’s theme and transform it into full fledged creative expression. In the Semester 3 studio, students are invited to explore the challenges posed by digital technologies and raise questions about web mediated relationships, networks and exchanges in a globalised world. As earlier, these could be interpreted depending on the students’ approach. Students would be free to choose a medium of expression or combinations of media based on their liking as well as on its appropriateness to the idea they have chosen to focus on.

Ways of Seeing and Saying
Ways of Seeing and Saying will be a series of lectures by eminent scholars from diverse professions and backgrounds who would be invited to present a view or idea or comment on a topic of their choice to illuminate their unique approach to viewing the world around them.

SEMESTER 4: FINAL DISSERTATION / PROJECT CREDITS: 25

Ways of Seeing and Saying Credits: 2
In the last semester students would be required to write a reflective essay based on the ideas discussed in the preceding 3 semesters as part of Ways of Seeing and Saying lectures by eminent scholars from diverse professions and backgrounds.

FINAL DISSERTATION / PROJECT
Students would spend the final semester

PEDAGOGY
Modes of Teaching
The core subjects and electives paper will be taught through a combination of lectures, field visits, workshops, seminars, supervised reading and self study. Students would be expected to write essays, prepare digital presentations and take examinations as part of their evaluations depending on the nature of the course and the decision of the individual teachers of courses.

Mentoring
Mentoring is central to the Studio component of the semester. The Masters programme aims to develop critical and analytical thinking beyond skill development in different media. Hence a process of individual mentoring is chalked out for each student. Student in groups or individually will be guided by faculty members as per his/her requirement into an inquiry leading towards nuances of the chosen subject. An important part of the mentoring process is ensuring that students’ interact with the outside world and constantly relate their work in the Studio with societal issues and concerns. In the phase when students make their creations in their selected medium mentoring would also include providing appropriate infrastructure help and imparting required skills and knowledge. Whenever the need arises, an outside expert will be consulted and invited for an interaction with students.