The Delhi College of Arts & Commerce was the pioneer college to introduce a three year honours programme in July-August 1989. In the modern world, press and media are important organs of a democratic and free society. Journalism is meant to establish and open communication of information and material available for the benefit of society. The accelerated face of media growth and development has enhanced the need for qualified professionals in the country.
The syllabus of the course is designed to equip the students with an intellectual and inter-disciplinary approach essential for the profession. The course aims to strike a balance between the theoretical approach to the field and close interaction with emitnent journalists to enable them to create a foyer in the market of contention.
The curriculum emphasized not only the skills of news writing, reporting and editing but also provides a broad view of the contemporary national and international scenario as well. The learning process also includes festivals, seminars, workshops and conferences on media issues and events to acclimatize the students with the recent trends and dynamics
.Another unique facet is the “Rhapsody” a quarterly magazine an initiative of the students. Apart from this, students publish a series of in-house tabloids “The DCAC Express”, “The DCAC Times” which are an annual amalgamation of current affairs and campus issues.It is our objective at DCAC to churn out students with an ambition to create a niche for themselves.
To achieve this goal we have the support of the faculty and distinguished experts from the media industry.The Alumni of this college are rising stars in the media world.
Placement
Delhi College of Arts & Commerce has a well established Job Placement Cell which has been functioning for the last three years. It is headed by Dr.Neeru Kapoor, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Commerce. Due to the consistent and diligent efforts of the Principal, Convenor, Non-teaching Staff and the Student volunteers, the job placement cell of DCAC is one of the best in the South Campus.
Various National and Multi-National Companies such as Google, Ernst & Young, Barclays, Capital-IQ, Evalue Serve, Genpact, IBM, ICICI Prudential, Bharti Axa Life Insurance, Max New York Life Insurance,Kingfisher Airlines and Flour Daniel have been visiting the campus regularily.
Last year the placement cell could successfully place around 100 students in all these company’s. The average pay-package last year was Rs.2.5 lakhs+ incentives.
Despite the overall recession at the national and the international levels and the decreasing job opportunities, this year we have managed to successfully place around 60 students belonging to different streams of the college in various companies such as Google, Ernst & Young, Barclays Shared Services, Genpact, IBM etc.
Some of the very good companies which have been coming to our campus regularly in the past did not turn up this year because of their resource crunch. It was a great set back to us. But we hope next year will bring more job opportunities for our students. Our efforts to provide them with the best are going on.
