Life in the Campus – Events & Activities
The campus offers a stimulating one-year Post Graduate Diploma Programme aimed at providing well-rounded education and honing of skills for a challenging job in the field of mass media and communication.
Besides the classroom lessons, a variety of special lectures, lecture-demonstrations, hands-on-the job experiments, institutional visits, seminars, online interactions and webinars are organized for the students throughout the academic year. All the courses are taught by the in-house faculty, supplemented by sessions by experts from Delhi headquarters, the industry and academia.
Seminars and Workshops: Seminars and Workshops on various themes and topical media issues are organized from time to time. Leading media houses and eminent practitioners are invited to deliberate and discuss issues of importance. Job-oriented training workshops are also conducted by eminent experts from various fields including movie/video editing, cinematography/videography, Television Production, Radio Production, Page-making, Page Layout, DTP, Digital Fact-checking, Online Journalism, and Data Journalism during the semesters. The workshops are led by academicians as well as professionals and industry experts.
Students’ Lab Journals: As part of the training, the students prepare reports, editand design for newspapers and magazines. The students designed and published number of Lab Journals in English as well as Marathi viz; Spectrum in English and Ekmat and Darpan in Marathi.
Scholar in Campus: Amravati Campus has been successfully conducting the Scholar in Campusinteraction with students, every year. Renowned personalities and celebrities who have made a mark in their respective field are invited to the campus and students are given an opportunity to interact with and interview them. Noted journalist Jaideep Hardikar, environmentalists Dr. Kishor Rithe and Dr. Nishikant Kale,Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar thinker Dr. Waman Gawai, noted social worker Shankarbaba Papalkar,columnist and author Jaideep Hardikar, Shailesh Kasbe and Amey Poreddiwar from Adfactors, to name a few, graced the campus during the current academic session.
Celebrations in the Campus: Amravati campus enthusiastically celebrates all major events like Independence Day, Republic Day, Hindi Diwas, Swachh Bharat Pakhwada, International Yoga Day, World Environment Day, National Youth Day, International Women’s Day, Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti, National Press Day, Marathi Patrakar Din, etc. in the campus. Besides, festive occasions such as Dussehra, Diwali and Holi are also celebrated in the campus.
Glorious Moments
Awards:
1. Students of Amravati Campus Sanket Gawhale, Pragati Bahurupi and Avanti Bhoyar won the award for the film on ‘The School of Nature’ at IIMC Film Festival 2022 for National short film making Competition on Spirit of India on 06 May 2022. The film was produced under the mentorship of Mr. Vinay Sonule, Assistant Professor, Amravati Campus.
2. Rupali Bhange won the first prize in the state-level essay competition organized by Akhil Bhartiya Shree Sant Namdeo Maharaj Sahitya Parishad on March 6, 2022.
3. Ajay Bhujbal and Shrikant Dhodhare stood second and third respectively in the state-level elocution competition organized by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Adhyasan Kendra and Takshashila Mahavidyalaya, Amravati on 12 April, 2022.
4. Vaibhav Mane won the first prize in the elocution contest organized by Institute of Management Studies, Warud on 13 April, 2022.
Appreciations:
1. The Institute has won the appreciation and a trophy from Forest Department of Amravati for producing their annual number Melvyaghra in 2019.
2. IIMC, Amravati was the third among all IIMC units in the country in 2019-2020
Special events/ Programmes
1. Celebration of Ambedkar Jayanti at Regional Centre on 12 April 2022
2. Organized special lecture of Principal Dr. V. T. Ingole on Ambadevi Rock Shelters at Green Circle on April 18,2022
3. Organized Broadcast Training Programme at Citi News Channel’s Studio from 25/04/2022 to 27/05/2022
4. Organized Training of Broadcast Journalism from 23/05/2022 to 03/06/2022
5. IIMC Alumni Association’s Connections-2022 held on 27 May 2022)
6. Special programme to visit Oxygen Park, Amravati on 01 June 2022
7. Celebration of World Environment Day on 05 June 2022
8. Swachhata Abhiyan at Regional Centre, Amravati
Social Media
The Institute makes good use of various social media platforms to promote its all-significant activities and also the announcements regarding admissions and other relevant matters.
Placements and Internship: The Amravati campus strives hard for the placement and internship of its students. The former students of Marathi Journalism who are working in diverse national and regional news organizationsprovides a greater support inplacement and internship. The Institute has developed a very good rapport with local and regional media houses and AD/PR houses. It is a matter of pride for IIMC that Amravati Campus students have been placed in electronic media and print media like BBC Marathi, ETV Bharat, TV 9, News Nation, daily Sakal, Daily Lokmat, etc. The placement percentage is more than 85% since the commencement of the programme in 2017.
Towards the end of the academic session, the Amravati campus organizes a placement/internship drive, thereby facilitating an interaction between the industry and students. However, it is not obligatory on the part of IIMC to provide placements to all the candidates.
As a part of the training programme, it is mandatory for all the candidates to complete a four-week internship in any media organization of their choice immediately after the final semester examination. The students must arrange the internship as per their choice, for which the institute extends all assistance by means of authorization/request letter etc. The Diploma Certificates are issued only after completing the Internship for the prescribed duration in a reputed media organization and producing a valid certificate in this regard.
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