As part of Amrita Values Programme (AVP), included in the curriculum, and the SEED (Student Empowerment for Environmental Development) organic initiative, harvest festival was celebrated on January 17, 2017.
A one-day interactive session on Animation Film Making was conducted for the Visual Media students of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi campus, on January 4, 2017.
Mr. Muralidhar Reddy, Resident Editor–The Hindu, New Delhi, addressed and interacted with the students of B. Sc. Visual Media and Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on November 19, 2016.
A workshop on ‘Broadcast Media in India – Program Production and Management’ was organized by the department of Visual Communication of School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 26, 2016. Dr. Niranjan Vanalli, Professor, Writer and Freelance Journalist, Registrar, Music University, Mysore, was the resource person of the session.
On 27th October, 2016, a one-day national workshop on ‘IPv6 on IoT’ was conducted by Mr. Baldev Krishnamurthy, Founder and Managing Director, A2B2 IT Services Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru.
On 26th October 2016, Mr. Gopalakrishnan, a Chartered Accountant from Mysore, gave a technical talk on Goods and Services Tax (GST) at the Department of Management and Commerce, School of Arts and Sciences, Mysyuru.
A workshop on ‘Advertising – Creativity, Media and Business’ was organized for students of B. Sc. (VM) (Semester III and V) of the by the department of Visual Communication, School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus, on October 22, 2016.
On 7th October, 2016, a talk on IoT was conducted by Dr. Veena M. N., Associate Professor, PES College of Engineering, Mandya. During the session, she had observed the IoT (Internet of Things) to be the physical world itself which had become a type of information system.
On 6th October, 2016, a workshop on Cloud Computing was held by Mr. Pratik Pai, Director, Product and Research, LogicHive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
On 11th August 2016, Dr. S. Usha, Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT University, Vellore, conducted a seminar on ‘Intellectual Property Rights in Today’s Digital Economy’, at the Dept. of Management and Commerce for students of B. Com, BBM & M.Com.