Teaching Methods
Teaching Methods
Innovative and Challenging Pedagogy
The Faculty of Mass Communication and Fine Arts is dedicated to making the teaching process and environment varied and learner-centred in the delivery of the learning objectives of each course.
Most of the courses are taught by a combination of lectures, flipped classroom seminars, tutorials and practice-based courses that use technical equipment and technician support in the Multimedia Production Center and Digital Media Lab.
The aim of the lectures is providing students with overview and pointers of a topic and more important is enabling them to capture a way of thinking about the delivered subject. Course Instructors are highly encouraged to use a range of audio-visuals to aid the process of meeting the learning objectives.
As part of teaching strategy, the Faculty expects students to use the material of flipped classroom before attending a lecture. Flipped classroom is a recorded lecture that is uploaded online before the lecture takes place in the lecture room. Students are expected to listen to the flipped lecture and think through it as a preparatory stage to be discussed in the lecture in the following day.
The purpose of the seminars is to encourage students to get involved in critical dialogue with the content that is covered by the lectures or flipped learning sessions. This is a great academic support to get students of different competencies to get engaged into discussing those challenging points addressed in a previous lecture. In this way, students will become more confident in handling the framework of the delivered topic.
Workshops are part of a method that encourages students to participate in intensive discussion and activity on a particular subject or project. The form of delivery may vary from one topic to another; however, a common thread in the workshops is providing students with an opportunity to utilize collaboratively their skills in a context of professional application and teamwork.
Students of the Faculty of MCFA are expected to get involved in project work in the second and third year of their study. The projects are credit bearing and are essential for students to become competent in utilizing their capacities in a professional teamwork environment. APR 497, APR 499, JDM 497, JDM 499, RTV 497, RTV 499, COM 497 and COM 499 are typical courses that involve project work as well as instances of group work. These, and other courses of study such as JDM 490 or RTV 490, allow you as a student to work independently or as work in a group to develop your ideas with informed and researched framework.