SRFTI set to start Master's course this session, UG from next year
The institute announced that the post-graduation courses would begin from this academic session and those taking admission this year would get an MFA (Master in Fine Arts) degree with specialization in 12 courses.
Modalities about the introduction of under-graduation courses are being finalized and it will take another year to start it.
The institute, which received the 'deemed university' status under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, is eligible to launch doctoral, research and innovative academic programmes. It will have to adhere to UGC norms, NEP 2020 guidelines, participate in NIRF rankings and integrate with Academic Bank of Credits.
Currently, SRFTI has two wings—cinema and the electronic and digital media (EDM). While the cinema wing courses follow conventional film academia, EDM focuses on TV, OTT and new media. The EDM wing offers the only course in India that caters to both classical television and emerging OTT platforms.
The postgraduate academic programmes in cinema has six specializations—producing for film & television, direction & screenplay writing, cinematography, sound recording & design and editing and animation cinema.
The specializations offered in the EDM wing are sound for EDM, direction and producing for EDM, writing for EDM, editing for EDM, cinematography for EDM and EDM management. "The next batch that takes admission in any of these streams will be awarded an MFA degree.
Earlier, students would get a diploma for these courses. We will complete all the formalities so that the MFA degree course can be launched this year itself for specialisation in all the 12 courses of the two wings," said Samiran Datta, SRFTI director.
The institute has been receiving queries about under-graduate courses and a tentative date for the launch. "There are many modalities to be followed... We need to streamline certain things. We are expecting to start undergraduate degree courses from the next academic year," Datta said.
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