Though Tribhuvan University (TU) and Purbanchal University (PU) started to offer education on Media Studies (journalism and mass communication) in Master's level in 2001, there still are rooms for improving these curricula. It is not that they have not been revised. TU had to revise the course to account for the semester system in 2014. PU also revised the curricula in 2013. The PU curricula are being revised. So this is the right time to discuss the ways to improve the curricula of these two universities.
Proposed papers
To address the change in the field of media and communication and to make students grounded in humanities and social science, I think five new papers should be introduced in the curricula.
The proposed first paper is "Disciplinary Debates". Any discipline has a history and scholars in the field have debates about the past, present and future of the discipline, and students should be aware of such debates. Often such debates take place in journals specific to the discipline. Communication studies is a discipline which is related to journalism studies, media studies and media education. However, the present syllabus does not contain any paper that includes such debates. Thus, while revising the course, such a paper can be included. Read Full Article by Harsha Man Maharjan on The Rising Nepal
