B.Sc Media Studies Hons at School of Communication, XIM University, Bhubaneswar Offline Course

The School of Communications at XIM University offers a four-year full-time BSc (Hons) in the Media Studies (Major in Media Studies and Minor in Liberal Arts) program with a total of 171 credits over eight semesters, to qualify for the award of the bachelor’s degree with honours. The curriculum comprises of 1. Major Courses (Domain-specific courses), 2. Minor Courses (Which are allied (to the domain) in nature), 3. Multidisciplinary Courses (Which provide the opportunity for the student to study a few much-unexplored domains), 4. Ability Enhancement Courses, 5. Skill Enhancement Courses, and 6. Value Addition Courses along with mandatory 7. Summer Internship Programme (At the end of the second year) with NPTEL SWAYAM MOOC as optional courses along with regular courses of a similar nature in Semester V & Semester VI.

As per the National Education Policy (NEP) of India 2020, learners will be able to choose their learning programs and there will be no hard separations between ‘arts’ and ‘sciences’, between ‘curricular’ and ‘extracurricular’ activities, between ‘vocational’ and ‘academic streams’, etc. The School of Communications in line with the NEP framework offers an undergraduate program of 4-year duration, with multiple entry and exit points and re-entry options with appropriate certifications such as follows:

• A certificate after completing 1 year (first two semesters) of study,
• A diploma after 2 years (first four semesters) of study,
• A bachelor’s degree after a 3-year (first six semesters) of study,
• A bachelor’s degree with honours after a 4-year (with eight semesters) of study with research or without research.