Visual Communication Department- Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women

In this age of communication revolution, Visual Communication has emerged as one of the fastest growing field of professional education. The aim of the course is to equip the students to see things with the eye of a visual communicator. It makes them understand the language of the visuals and communicate in various media formats like hand based imagery, computerized imagery, still and moving imagery.

Visual Communication is a media literacy course that endeavour to sensitize the students with all the nuances of the media and entertainment industry. The broad area of Visual communication covers an array of multi disciplinary subjects. A combination of papers grounded in theory and practical helps the students acquire necessary professional training. The course transforms the student into one of the best media professionals and its its applications are found in innumerable interrelated professions.

Students can find employment as Multimedia Designer/Developer, Web Developer and Web Production Specialist, Web Graphics Artist, Animators, Visualizers, Cartoonists, Photographers, Film makers, Copywriters, Video Editor, Director, Scriptwriter, Interactive Content Specialist, Event Managers and many more areas after the compltion of the course.

The Visual Communication department at the Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women aims to empower the girl students through media education and help them realize their potential in what essentially once upon a time had beeb a mens profession.

High quality teaching faculty, friendly teaching environment, first hand industry exposure ensures smooth conduct of the Visual Communication course at the Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women.

A well equipped multimedia studio, latest still digital cameras and video cameras, state of the art shooting floor, editing and sound recording studio, power point Lecture heater, large number of books and periodicals at the colleges library are some of the special features of the Visual Communication department.

The department organizes planned visits to various media houses to build relationship with the professional world and prepare them for future employment. The experts from the field of media and entertainment industry visit the department regularly to share their knowledge with the students.

The college prepares students for the challenges of their career and facilitate job placement through campus interviews. Most of its students find placement at the film and television production units, television channels, multimedia studios, advertising agencies, newspapers, magazines, and other media and entertainment outlets.

Shri Swetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Education society (Regd.) founded in the year 1937 has been rendering yeomen service to the community by nurturing learning experience to enable students to realize their inherent potential and to mould them into competent, self-reliant and socially responsible citizens. In the seven decades of its presence, the Society has been responsible for successfully establishing several educational institutions like Mohan mull Chordia Jain Industrial Training centre, Shri Agurchand Man mull Jain College, Shri Tarachand Galada Jain Vidyalaya, Shri Mangichand Bhandari Jain Higher secondary School, Shri Amoluckchand Galada Jain Higher Secondary school and Sri Badalchand Sayarchand Chordia Jain Vidyalaya.

Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women is yet another feather in the cap of Sri S.S. Jain Educational society. 

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 This report is prepared by Syed Ali Mujtaba PhD, Senior Faculty, Visual Communication department, Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women, Chennai.