Long overdue! Mass Communication is too complex a course to study. Specialization becomes a problem for graduates. This is why mass communication certificate holders are called 'jack of all trade, master of none', because you can't really say which field they're good at.
Nice move by the NYC and professors. At least those who want to study journalism and Media studies will be taught proficiency in writing and reporting from the onset. And those who intend becoming screen writers and actors will be grounded well in act of theatre from the onset. Rather than studying everything and becoming non-proficient in a given expertise.

But then these 7 new degrees are courses in mass communication, studying it separately will only make the curriculum content empty. Just saying.

Also they forgot to add photojournalism as one of the 7 degrees.

Valerie47:
But then these 7 new degrees are courses in mass communication, studying it separately will only make the curriculum content empty. Just saying.

I said this rather the moderator removed my comment

too many irrelevant course.producing uproductive graduates

anochuko01:
business admin
marketing
banking

add urs

Banking & finance is one course that should be phased out, any gradate can be a banker, even if you study religion.

Richdad50:
I once said that I will never allow anyone I know to study 'Mass Communication' as a Degree. A roudy degree. They have the highest number of unemployable graduates in Nigeria.
Nothing pisses a recruiter than seeing a Mass Communication Degree on a Resume. Believe me. A recruiter once told me in confidence that he had preferred a Public Administrator to a Mass Communicator. No offence.

#Richdad

I use to think you're smart but damn, anyway nothing surprises me in this forum anymore.

The problem with most of you all is ignorance.

See prove bellow!!

No need.

All the courses can still be taken as compulsory or elective courses.

BSc Mass Communication is it!

Every one is now a journalist social media allowed it

Thank God it's not my course

MichaelPoem002:
Every one is now a journalist social media allowed it


Thank God it's not my course

Same way I pity people that studied Banking and finance, accounting, anyone can be a banker and an accountant, just write Ican, I can't waste 4 years in school studying accounting when I can write Ican an become a chattered accountant.

adecz:


It was a similar idle, motley group of
so-called dons & eggheads that gathered
some time back & decided to remove

1) History
2) Geography

from secondary school's curriculum.

Their mates in other parts of the world are
busy with research & discoveries, they are
here, dreaming up meaningless schemes, just
to collect sitting allowance.

Who send them sef?

Nonsense & ingredients!!!

where Dem for remove Geography?

REALITY remains THERE IS NO FCKING JOB!!!!

Richdad50:
I once said that I will never allow anyone I know to study 'Mass Communication' as a Degree. A roudy degree. They have the highest number of unemployable graduates in Nigeria.
Nothing pisses a recruiter than seeing a Mass Communication Degree on a Resume. Believe me. A recruiter once told me in confidence that he had preferred a Public Administrator to a Mass Communicator. No offence.

#Richdad

That was how one of my cousin shunned our advice to study law and went to chase Masscom degree despite our warnings. Till today, I have not and will not contribute one Kobo to her studies.

Good development....


Engineering nextttttt.....

Valerie47:
Banking & finance is one course that should be phased out, any gradate can be a banker, even if you study religion.

ignorance at its peak. Who told you banking and finance graduate only works in a bank?Now let me educate you. As a banking and finance graduate you can work any where you desire-oil coys,financial institutions, hospitals etc. It's better sometimes not to talk when you know not what to say than spewing poo in order to get notice

Valerie47:
Same way I pity people that studied Banking and finance, accounting, anyone can be a banker and an accountant, just write Ican, I can't waste 4 years in school studying accounting when I can write Ican an become a chattered accountant.

My friend Banking and finance and accounting graduate are one of the most useful courses that'd still trend in next 100 years. As a business organization, you can't do without having an accounting/finance dept except you want your business to wind off

Psychology should be split too.. I can't be doing psychobiology today and be doing organisational psychology tomorrow

Accounting and Economics are better, banking & Finance should be scrapped and replaced with Financial management.

kristlike:

My friend Banking and finance and accounting graduate are one of the most useful courses that'd still trend in next 100 years. As a business organization, you can't do without having an accounting/finance dept except you want your business to wind off

11Anonymous:
Where will they work?

my farm.

anochuko01:
business admin
marketing
banking

add urs

Business administration should not be on this list

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Valerie47:
Same way I pity people that studied Banking and finance, accounting, anyone can be a banker and an accountant, just write Ican, I can't waste 4 years in school studying accounting when I can write Ican an become a chattered accountant.

what course did you study and which uni?

About time. It's taken too long for NUC to do the needful. A degree in Mass Communication is a money pit of sorts.
Well-done, NUC

GLeesMODEL:
Mass Communication Degree To Be Phased Out In Nigeria As Professors Submit New Curricula To NUC

If you have a degree in Mass Communication, or you are currently studying to get this degree, or you have friends who have something to do with this degree in Nigeria, then you should be interested in this story. It seems the era of having Mass Communication as a degree in Nigeria is nearing an end.

Professors, professionals and practitioners of communication in Nigeria have presented new communication curricula to National Universities Commission (NUC).

A document containing new curricula for communication studies in Nigerian universities, which seeks to unbundle mass communication and create seven degree awarding departments to be domiciled under a School/College of Communication in its place, was formally presented to the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, in Abuja on Tuesday, 5th February 2019.

Proponents of the new curricula who have been working on it for the past two years and who were present to advocate for its acceptance and adoption included professors and senior lecturers from the departments of mass communication/communication studies of numerous universities spread across the six geo-political zones of the country; regulatory agencies such as the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and Nigerian Press Council (NPC); professional bodies such as the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) and Radio, Television and Theartre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU); practitioners such as the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), print media journalists and the Director of Public Relations of the Nigerian Navy; and international development agencies such as UNESCO, UNICEF and the MacArthur Foundation.


The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Fund (TETFUND), Prof. Suleiman Elias Bogoro was also personally present to support the NUC Executive Secretary and to present a goodwill message at the ceremony.

The seven independent degree-awarding departments which the curricula seek to establish in place of mass communication are: Journalism & Media Studies, Public Relations, Advertising, Broadcasting, Film & Multimedia Studies, Development Communication Studies, and Information & Media Studies. Those who formally presented the curricula on behalf of the communication professors, professionals and practitioners were Professors Umaru Pate (Convener), Idowu Sobowale, Ralph Akinfeleye and Tonnie Iredia.


Receiving the document, the Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Rasheed said a review of the mass communication curriculum was long overdue and promised to expedite action in the process of finalizing and adopting the curricula.

Prof. Eserinune McCarty Mojaye of the Department of Mass Communication, Kwara State University was among the notable dignitaries at the ceremony who also included Professors Palph Akinfeleye, Idowu Sobowale, Umaru Pate, Tonnie Iredia, Stella Okunna, Nnanyelugo Okoro, Sunny Udeze, Muyiwa Popoola, Godwin Oboh, Mr. Kingsley Osadolor and a host of others.


(from left to right) are: Professors Muyiwa Popoola of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo; Sunny Udeze of Enugu State University of Technology, Enugu; Nnanyelugo Okoro of University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Idowu Sobowale of McPherson University, Seriki-Sotayo, Ajebo; Stella Okunna of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Ralph Akinfeleye of University of Lagos, Yaba, Lagos; Godwin Oboh of Benson Idahosa University, Benin City; Umaru Pate of Bayero University, Kano; and Eserinune McCarty Mojaye of Kwara State University, Malete.



http://massmediang.com/mass-communication-degree-to-be-phased-out-in-nigeria-as-professors-submit-new-curricula-to-nuc/

Masscom and Banking ...horrible courses

Masscom and Banking ...horrible courses ,time to go

At least, that Victorian era degree is going.

Almost every other girl with OND, HND or a degree is in Mass Com.

Another one is Linguistics. Hardly any recent Linguistics graduate I have met has been able to explain what linguistics actually means. Never mind knowing Socio-lingustics, Neurolingustics or structural linguistics, etc. None could boast of a decent knowledge of a second modern language like French, Spanish etc. Most had no idea what philology is even about.

And I only have people who studied linguistics decades ago (when studying actually imparted knowledge) in the extended family. I gleaned those those parts of Linguistics mentioned above from them growing up. And asking them about Linguistics as a curious child.