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B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication Features and Writing for Social Justice Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the TY BAMMC Journalism syllabus under the CBCS scheme, revision R-2019-20. The University has not published an NEP 2020 syllabus for the third year of this degree, and still examines Semesters V and VI on this one, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.

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Major elective · Semester 5 · TY BAMMC Journalism · 4 credits · 100 marks

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Syllabus for Features and Writing For Social Justice

Major elective · Semester 5 · TY BAMMC Journalism · 4 credits · 100 marks

Module I: About features

  • What makes feature writing different Deconstructing a feature News Feature Human Interest Stories, Profiles Developmental stories, opinion pieces, in-depth features as tools of social justice

Module II: How to pen a feature

  • Finding fresh ideas, developing a story idea On and off field research Building observation and listening skills Structuring the story Use of anecdotes, Illustrations, Interviewing

Module III: Becoming the voice of the urban poor ( Mumbai): letters to editors, blogs

  • Prone to disasters : floods etc Poor health specially mental health Lack of facilities and obstacles to education Night schools Unemployment and exploitation

Module IV: Mumbai based features/ letter to the editor/ post/opinion piece on

  • Plight of Rag pickers Construction workers The homeless Slum rehabilitation projects Condition of Mumbai Jails/ Courts

Module V: Mumbai based features/ letter to the editor/ post/opinion piece on

  • City issues of hygiene and pollution Water crisis Crime and safety Corruption issues faced by the common man Challenges faced by senior citizens and the physically/ mentally challenged

REFERENCES

  • 1 Feature Writing: Meera Raghvendra Rao, 2012
  • 2 Communication and Development: The Challenges of Twenty First Century- V.S. Gupte, 2000.
  • 3 On Writing Well (30th anniversary edition), William Zinsser, Harper Paperbacks, 2006.
  • 4 Poverty and deprivation among the Katkari by Rohit Mutatkar, Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 52, Issue no. 13.01 April, 2017
  • 5 Legal status and deprivation in urban slums over two decades by Laura B Nolan, David E Bloom and Subbaramaniyam. Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 53, Issue No 15, 14 April, 2018.
  • 6 Delhi’s Slum Dwellers, deprivation, Preferences and Political Engagement among Urban poor by Abhijit Banerjee, Rohini Pande and Michael Walton, International Growth Centre, October 2012.
  • 19 The Free Voice on Democracy, Culture and Nation by Ravish Kumar.
  • 20 Everyone Loves a Good Drought by P. Sainath.
  • 21 Looking Away by Harsh Mandar.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication under NEP 2020. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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This subject is cut from the University circular for its year. Open a document here if you want the whole thing rather than a single subject.

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