An official from the university said that Delhi School of Journalism (DSJ) plans to start small courses for working professionals from the upcoming academic year. The newly-established school is running its second batch for a five-year integrated course in Masters in Journalism and also had among its objective to start courses for the working professionals and students.
"Since we are a new college and have just started our second batch, things are bound to take some time. But we are planning to start the short-term courses by 2020 latest, and if we can, we will start the courses from 2019," Manasvini Yogi, Officer-on-Special-Duty for DSJ, told IANS.
Among the courses, the school is mulling over the idea of starting a course in digital journalism for the professionals and may conduct classes in the weekend for the same.
"We will have to see about all that. Too early to talk about the kind of courses we will start. But a course in digital journalism will be there and since these would be for working journalists, the classes may be held on weekends," Yogi said.
The school started functioning in 2017 with a batch of 120 students and now there are 218 students across two batches in the school.