Degree awarded: BA (Hons) Television Production
Duration: 4 Years
Academic department: Department of Media Studies
Contact Address Riphah Institute of Media Studies
The Riphah International University
274-Peshawar Road, (Old Supreme Court Building) Rawalpindi Pakistan.
Contact email: contact@riphah.edu.pk
Contact telephone: Tel: (92-51) 5565981-6 UAN: 111-510-511 Fax: (92-51) 5567527
Admission queries: admission@riphah.edu.pk
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Riphah Institute of Media Studies is the newest institute of Riphah International University, Rawalpindi, recently established in the traditional Old Supreme Court Building, with an aim to fill in the gaps in the field of media education and research in the region. Ever since the inception of Pakistan till today, there have been very few institutions offering qualifications in the field of Media till today. Professionals in the field of Media are hard to find and most people working in the current media industry of Pakistan have either learnt their skills on job or through limited professional training during the course of their work. Professionals with formal education in the arena of media and TV production are very hard to find. Keeping in view the dynamic growth in the Media industry around the world, the professions have become far more challenging and the only one way forward is by competing on professional ground which may not be possible unless one has the knowledge, abilities and skills to perform the various media functions. Staring form undergraduate programs in early 2007, the university plans to provide conducive environment for research and development in the field of Media Studies thereby offering awards of M. Phil and PhDs in the near future.

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School of Media, Art & Design

At the School of Media, Art & Design, we aim to produce world-class practitioners for the creative industries. In order to achieve this, we provide students with world-class facilities, innovative courses and committed teaching by professional practitioners and established experts. In fact, our teaching has been rated as ‘excellent’ by the Quality Assurance Agency. Our courses are designed to bring out your full creative potential and the School provides a dynamic environment in which tomorrow’s filmmakers, journalists, artists and designers work alongside one another. We provide a choice of courses across all levels from Foundations Degrees to PhDs. The School has recently benefited from a major investment into the modernizing and expansion of its facilities, including a £5.5m Media Arts Centre opened in 2004. The Centre offers a television studio, a white space studio, a performance studio, two electronic newsrooms and a radio station, along with 10 digital video suites, numerous multimedia computer suites, and creative writing labs with additional studios for animation and design work. We offer a diverse range of undergraduate courses which will allow you to develop your ideas in a cosmopolitan and friendly environment. We have established links with art and design companies to allow good opportunities for work placements. Our graduates have gone on to find real success as TV and radio presenters, filmmakers, graphic designers, interior designers, video producers, photographers, freelance artists, script writers, art editors, gallery and museum curators and art critics.

The School runs a range of exciting and challenging postgraduate courses which allow you to pursue your creativity and extend your skills and knowledge at an advanced level. The MA program provides you with the opportunity to sharpen your expertise and give you an edge in the competitive job market or to establish a field of study for further research and progression to PhD study. The Institute supports a wide range of research degrees and major research projects. We encourage applications and research proposals in practice projects as well as theoretical and historical research across the media, art and design disciplines.
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Research

The University is committed to providing opportunities and widening participation with vocationally focused curricula relevant to a national and international audience. This focus involves three interlocking activities; teaching, research and knowledge transfer. '5fThe University has gained national recognition for its achievements in widening participation and teaching. It is gaining increasing regional and national recognition for the quality of its research and its knowledge transfer work with small and medium–sized companies.

Research Institute for Media, Art and Design

The Institute exists to support research initiatives in media art and design within the University. With a mature research base in media, and highly active exhibition culture in art and design, the Institute welcomes applications for Masters by Research and PhDs. The Institute hosts the and has research specializes in new media; publishing; cross-media integration; political communication, journalism; sport and the media; community radio. The Institute supports a range of collaborative practice-led research groups in, new media, art and community, and media education. The Institute has a AHRC funded research project (2005-2008) in Crossmedia co-operation in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. The project will examine early attempts at co-operation between media companies and publishers in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in the sale of broadcast rights, film options and in the timing and release of book, film and radio tie-ins.

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