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VISION
To develop a centre to impart innovative
training in Visual Media, emphasizing alternative perspectives and aesthetic
presentation of local realities using global media strategies.
MISSION
To provide a broad spectrum of visual
media to enable students make meaningful career choices.
To train students towards better
understanding of media by sharpening their creativity.
To facilitate use of alternative media
to bring positive changes in society To bring the gap between the academia and
media industry.
Objectives:
To train students in meaningful use of
visual media
To explore for alternative perspectives
within visual media in a globalizing context.
To train students to understand the loss
of cultural identities in contemporary visual media and enable them to revive
those identities by responsibly using the visual media.
To sharpen the creative capacities in
students to function at various fields in visual media.
To introduce to students the various
genres and branches in the visual media so as to enable them to locate the
ultimate possibilities to creatively engage the visual media.
To help students to understand the
socio-political dimensions of visual media without diluting it with too much of
aesthetics.
To help students to understand the
meaningful relationships between art and craft and technology so as to enable
them to become globally recognized media professionals
History
The Department of Visual communication
blossomed from the academic year 2007, after a prolonged deep study on visual
media and its existence as an industry. This Department being the pioneer in
Madurai, is conscious in creating media professionals and creators not just
merely to be a part of the existing media, however to make a conscious effort
to bring about a vital change in the existing Media Scenario, the students are
enabled with the technological innovations along with strong literature
knowledge, which will comprehend them to have an Alternative Perspective,
enabling them to make aesthetic presentation of the reality using global
strategies.
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