<p style="text-align: justify;">Asia Centre’s Media &amp; Communications Workshop  is designed to give students an introduction to<img class="wp-image-3086 alignright" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Professional-skills.png" alt="professional-skills" width="363" height="205" /> the Asian media landscape and the opportunity to undertake a project that allows for innovation and practical application of their knowledge and skills. Students will be mentored in conceptualising and carrying out their media projects by the Asia Centre. In particular students will be acquainted with how media policy and practices in Asia  are affected by socio-economic factors, cultural context, style of governance and technology. As part of the internship students will be expected to engage in practical media tasks to develop their professional skills including writing, reporting, incorporating digital media elements and disseminating information to media outlets.</p>
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<b>Course Objectives</b>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provide students with an appreciation of the Asian media landscape</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Review case studies to develop a contextual appreciation of key laws, governance frameworks, socio-economic and cultural contexts that impact media policy and practices.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop students critical thinking, research and interviewing skills.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Equip students with skills to execute and present a multimedia report incorporating written, digital and social media elements.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enable student to hone and apply their professional skills through practical assignments.</span></li>
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<img class="alignright wp-image-3088" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/15146880_10157669480405307_331213641_o-600x450.jpg" alt="15146880_10157669480405307_331213641_o" width="311" height="233" /> <img class="wp-image-3089 alignleft" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/14500703_10210243375978781_116785850124513616_o-600x444.jpg" alt="14500703_10210243375978781_116785850124513616_o" width="318" height="235" /> <img class="wp-image-3090 aligncenter" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/14352502_1286411821378043_4165059938118413393_o-600x336.jpg" alt="14352502_1286411821378043_4165059938118413393_o" width="446" height="250" />

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<b>Learning Outcomes</b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of this course students will be able to:</span>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understand key developments and issues facing the Asian media landscape</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understand media policy and practices in their historical, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts in selected countries</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think critically and attain competency in conducting research and interviews</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Acquire practical experience in executing and presenting a multimedia research project.</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve media related professional skills and competencies</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Programme Structure</b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This workshop will be be structured to include learning  and practical components. Students will attend and participate in a mixture of activities for experiential learning. The practical component will take the form of producing multimedia report on a project topic of their choice. This will be complemented by visits to media companies, opportunities to interact and network with leading journalists and foreign correspondents, freedom of expression advocates, as well as students and instructors in media and communications programmes in selected Bangkok based universities.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3094 aligncenter" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Programme-Week-1--600x251.jpg" alt="programme-week-1" width="600" height="251" /> <img class="size-medium wp-image-3095 aligncenter" src="http://asiacentre.co.th/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Programme-Week-2-600x245.jpg" alt="programme-week-2" width="600" height="245" /></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Media Project timeslots are for students to work on developing their multimedia project (in groups or individually), conducting research and producing the final output. Students will work under the guidance of an Asia Centre supervisor.</span>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Workshop Fees - </strong>USD$450</p>
The course fees cover instruction &amp; materials. Students are expected to bear their own costs for flights, accommodation, meals, local travel and entrance fees to special events.

To register, please drop us an email at contact@asiacentre.co.th

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