Graduate Program

Program Description

Features of Masters Program

The Department of Printing and Publication Studies offers this one-year regular Master of Social Sciences (MSS) programme under the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Dhaka. The programme is the extended layer of the incumbent and future students of the department who are/or will to go through their Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) programme in Printing and Publication Studies. Mentionable, the 4-year BSS programme of the department has been commenced from the calendar year of 2018, and the students of the first batch is in the process of taking the MSS programme in the session of 2021-2022 after obtaining their undergraduate degree.

The programme is comprised of 2 (Two) semesters, and each semester is to span for six months. The credit for each course is 4 (Four), and the students altogether have to attain 32 credits. At their second semester, the students have to compulsorily take a Publishing project or alternatively to take Thesis on the basis of the students’ choice or the minimum grades they need to obtain in their first semester. All of them, however, have to sit for a Comprehensive and an Oral test too.

Salient Features of Masters Program (at a glance)

• 2 (Two) Semesters
• Total 32 Credits (16+16)
• Publishing Project

Or

• Thesis
• Comprehensive Examination (Written and Oral Test)

Field of Faculties

The department is quite strong with full strength of teaching staffs and has been running by highly qualified faculty members who are nationally and internationally acclaimed in diversified disciplines such as Mass Communication and Journalism, Publishing, Editing and Print Production, Language, Printing History, Graphic Design, etc. They have multifarious qualities and technical experiences and abilities to teach the students as per the demand and of the rapid changes of printing and publishing industry of the world.

Mission and Vision

The immediate target or mission of the programme is to provide of its first couple of academically-trained graduates (workforce) for the printing and publication industries of Bangladesh in the current decade of 2021, gradually replacing the traditional on-going system of recruiting 'On-the-Job-Trainees' (OJT)/workers to make the industries more compatible to stand generally by the side of the leading printing and publishing industries of the world, India and China in particular.

The ultimate goal or vision of the programme is to secure and sustain a top position at the order of the ladder of high-ranking and well-acclaimed disciplines of printing and publication in a shortest possible time to establish it really a Centre of Excellence especially in the sub-continent, and to make it a true institution for academic pursuit and research in printing and publication field. It has the other goal to draw a good attention from the potential learners as to make it as a very viable and well sustained market-oriented subject in the perspective of present world scenario.

The order of the courses of

MSS in Printing and Publication Studies

The students have to go through four (04) courses mentioned above in their first semester. The students will choose one course between PPS 507 and PPS 508 in their second semester. That means they have the choices to opt for research work or to have a hand-on scope to learn how to publish a book or magazine. But the selection of the course PPS 508 depends on the basis of merit and number of the students. The courses PPS 505, PPS 506 and PPS 509 are compulsory.

Note: The code of the courses 'PPS' stands for Printing and Publication Studies.