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DCE- 04: Writing for Media: Radio and Television

By Dr. Rajesh Kumar; Dr. Anamika Shukla   |   Indira Gandhi National Open University
Learners enrolled: 867
It is divided into two parts. Writing for Radio and Writing for Television. This updated course incorporates latest developments in the electronic media and is basically an introduction to the field of scriptwriting for those media.
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Not Applicable
Language for course content : English
Duration : 16 weeks
Category :
  • Language
Credit Points : 4
Level : Diploma
Start Date : 01 Sep 2022
End Date :
Exam Date :

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Course layout

DCE-04: Writing for Media: Radio and Television

Week

e-Content/PDFs

Week–1

Unit-1: Radio and its potential: An Introduction

Week–2

Unit-2: Types of Programmes: A Summary

Week–3

Unit-3: Essential Production techniques: Adapting for radio

Week–4

Unit-4: Radio talk and Profile

Week–5

Unit-5: Radio Documentary

Week–6

Unit-6: Radio Interviews and Discussions

Week–7

Unit-7: Radio Plays

Week–8

Unit-8: Writing for Children: Radio

Week–9

Unit-9: Television and its potential: An Introduction

Week–10

Unit-10:Types of Programmes: A Summary

Week–11

Unit-11:Essential production Techniques: Adapting for TV

Week–12

Unity-12: Plays and Serials

Week–13

Unit-13: TV Ads

Week–14

Unit-14: TV and Video Magazines

Week–15

Unit-15: Television Documentary

Week–16

Unit-16: Writing for Television: Children

Instructor bio

Dr. Rajesh Kumar; Dr. Anamika Shukla

Indira Gandhi National Open University
Rajesh Kumar, PhD., an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, has taught for almost two decades in a college in University of Delhi, New Delhi before joining the faculty of English, SOH, IGNOU. He has a PhD in English Literature on “Dalit Writings and Aboriginal Writings: Convergences & Divergences” and an MPhil in English Literature on “The dialectics of Australian Aboriginal Identity in Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies” from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of UGC Research Award (2016-18) during which he worked on a project on “Santali Dance-Songs of Jharkhand: Contextualizing Art & Culture’. He has also been an Associate (2018-20) at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla. He has authored four books: Santal Folk-Dance Songs: Contextualizing Art &Culture; Dalits Vs Aboriginal Australians: Convergences& Divergences; Of Dalit and Australian Aboriginal Writings & Culture; Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies: Reading Identity, Aboriginality and Belongingness; and  edited one Volume: Literaria: An International Journal of New Literature across the World, special issue on Literatures of Margin, Bahri Publications: New Delhi.vol.2, no.1, Jan-Jun 2012. ISSN:2229-4600. He has published many scholarly articles in national and international journals on various subjects and issues relating to literatures of margin and presented several papers in national and International Conferences. His areas of interest include Culture Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Literary Criticism, Dalit Literature, Australian Literature, Literatures of margin/ Marginality, Sociology of Dalit discourse, Dalit Autobiographies, Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Performing Arts & Culture, Dance Studies, Folklore Studies and Tribal Folk Literature of India. He is also currently working on developing a Diploma Online Course in Digital Humanities (DH).

Dr. Anamika has done MA in English Literature, she specializes in Indian English Literature and is a Ph.D. in American Literature, pursued research at American Studies Research Centre, (ASRC) Hyderabad. She is a resource person to the UGC – Human Resource Development Centre at various states and central universities. She has contributed as a resource person at National Resource Center, SavitriBai Phule University, Pune for the SWAYAM platform.

She has been an expert member in the Discipline of English for the committee constituted by UGC for the selection of candidates under the Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme, Research Award Scheme and Emeritus Fellowship Scheme of the UGC.

She has also been on the list of experts for preparing Self Learning Material of MP Bhoj Open University, Bhopal M.P.

She is member Board of Studies of various universities namely, Dr. B.R Ambedkar National Law University, Rai, Sonepat Haryana and Department of Higher Studies and Foreign Languages, Chhatrapati Sahu Maharaj University, Kanpur.

Her areas of interest are ICT interventions in the Humanities, Teaching English as a Second Language, Studies in Culture and Literary Heritage and Interdisciplinary Studies, She is  presently working on Indian knowledge systems and English Communication Skills .

She has published books on Saul Bellow, Pedagogy & Teaching of English Language. She has to her credit articles and research papers published in National / International Journals. She appears on the editorial board of journals. She is also a research guide and has successfully supervised PhDs under her guidance.


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