Jah Kente International Media Arts curriculum comprises of disciplines in media, art, and design. It gives youths a solid foundation to become competent communication professionals and engaged local and global citizens. The program develops youths’ abilities to engage in critical reflection and analysis of communication from multiple perspectives. They learn about transformative and ethical approaches to communication, and explore multifaceted topics that include race, gender, and the interpersonal, intercultural, and organizational contexts of human communication. The media’s institutional, cultural, and economic effects on society are also examined, as well as the role they can play in promoting social change and creating a more inclusive society.
Trainees will:
- Assess how human communication and media institutions shape key aspects of social life, including interpersonal relationships, gender relations, and culture.
- Apply various communication theories in the analysis of texts, relationships, messages, and social settings.
- Design communication strategies that meet ethical and professional standards in multiple contexts.
- Demonstrate communication practices that pursue social justice and bring about social change.
- Demonstrate communication practices that pursue social justice and bring about social change.
- Create visual representations that communicate, challenge, and express their own and others’ ideas.
- Develop their perceptual and conceptual understandings, critical thinking and reasoning, and practical skills through exploring the world, which facilitates their own and other cultures, and their responsibilities as global citizens.
Please download the detailed curriculum outline:
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