Along with MA and BA (Extra-Departmental) courses a PhD programme has been introduced. The Department has already become a meeting ground for the best film scholars in the country. With a special arrangement for visiting faculty, it has been possible to maintain a steady stream of distinguished visitors, from both home and abroad.

The new MA and BA (Extra-Departmental) curriculum, introduced in 2013, incorporates the recent developments in the field and reflects the experience that we have gained in the past years. The primary aim is to produce a critical mind in the student to engage film and media actively in life, rather than be passive recipients of images. The courses are meant to produce critics and scholars, planners and advisers, teachers and journalists, and also practitioners of film ready to make use of critical knowledge. The curriculum is designed to familiarize students with both the rudiments of film form and the most advanced theories of film practice. It is historically inclusive and theoretically intensive in nature.

Though cinema constitutes a broad space in the curriculum, there are also courses on Media Studies and Communication Studies. Contemporary theoretical and historical research in media forms such as newspaper, radio and television and the Internet will be discussed with due importance in these courses. At the same time, the students will be encouraged through projects and fieldwork to develop their own critical perspectives on recent developments in media practices. The Indian context is studied with special emphasis in most of the papers, often in connection with other non-western cases such as Japan, the Latin American countries, China and Iran.

From getting to know the aesthetic aspects of film and the current intellectual debates on culture and society to acquiring skills of writing creatively on culture and media and gaining hands-on experience in audiovisual production, the student in the Department will have an exciting journey ahead.