ULAB Welcomes to Campus AMIC Community Radio Participants.

The Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ) Department welcomed to its campus on March 6, 2010 the participants of the Singapore-based Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) workshops on community radio.  During the activity, ULAB Pro Vice Chancellor Imran Rahman re-iterated ULAB’s commitment to be a Training Partner of AMIC on community radio in Bangladesh. 

To demonstrate its capability as a Training Partner, Communications Director Juditha Ohlmacher showed the participants the various campus facilities – media laboratory, screening room, computer laboratory, library, canteen, classrooms and gallery.  MSJ Department Head Jude Genilo, meanwhile, introduced the faculty and explained the department’s academic programs.  Aside from an orientation video about ULAB, participants viewed two video productions (one music video and one documentary about radio) undertaken by ULAB students.

The AMIC workshops on community radio were conducted in Dhaka by Dr. Kalinga Seneviratne and Mr. Louie Tabing from March 1 to 6, 2010.  The workshops – Feature Writing, Radio Station Management and Participatory Radio Production Strategies – were participated by media practitioners and non-government organization workers throughout the country. Three ULAB faculty – Marium Akther, Imtiaz Ahmed Chowdhury and Razibul Hossain – were among the participants. 

In June 2010, AMIC is expected to complete the curriculum for teaching “Participatory Communication and Community Radio.”  ULAB will be one of the AMIC training partners to implement this 15-week curriculum in Bangladesh.