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School of Modern Media, UPES Dehradun

New-Age Gender & Media Curriculum Design and Instruction

SDG

SECTOR

SERVICES

  • Curriculum & Pedagogy Design
  • Higher Ed Teaching

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Undergraduate Students

PLATFORM

  • Offline & Virtual Classes
  • Workshops
An illustration of the icon for the gender spectrum forming glasses through which two eyes peek out—representing Newsworthy.Studio's Gender & Media Curriculum for UPES Dehradun.

UPES Dehradun’s School of Modern Media engaged Newsworthy.Studio to help shape the future of the media ecosystem. The task at hand: designing a semester-long curriculum for undergraduate students on how the media covers—and should cover–gender and its intersection with other axes of life, such as caste, class, identity and religion. Our Gender and Media curriculum included sessions on Gender 101, Family, Labour, Work, Culture, Law, Politics and Violence.

The Challenge

Prep undergraduate students to use the gender lens at India’s only digital-first new media school

The Outcome

Curriculum & pedagogy design and instruction of a Gender and Media module

An image of an old woman sitting on a charpai - highlighting gender upclose for UPES
An image showcasing a large group of Indian women sitting - highlighting gender upclose for UPES
An image showcasing a large group of women protesting for their rights- highlighting gender upclose for UPES

Transforming Media Education

Through canonical and contemporary reading material, interactive sessions, workshops and graded assignments, the curriculum brought together gender frameworks in an effective hands-on way with tons of new media examples, learnings and insights. Veteran journalist and founder of Newsworthy.Studio Anubha Bhonsle took on the role of Associate Professor of Media Practice at UPES to teach the Gender and Media curriculum. The course has been running for four years now. 

Explore our Work

An image of a person in a pink saree and a flowers in her black hair looking away from the camera with the road in the background, used as a representative image for a series on gender-based violence

PARI

Shifting the narrative around sexual and gender-based violence

Reportage.

BBC World Service

Reckoning with the Reality of Female Infanticide in India

Impact Films & Documentaries.

Image from the cover page of Population Foundation of India's 2023-24 report showing a group of students in a classroom, raising hands.

Population Foundation of India

Promoting informed discourse on changing population dynamics

Annual, ESG & Research Reports.