Contemporary Development Communication

This course is about creating experience for change. It aims to enable the students to understand the processes and approaches to contemporary development communication. Students will learn to perform situation analysis and problem tree analysis to address the development issues. Learners will acquire the skills to design and implement development communication strategies combining participatory methods with communication processes, media and digital tools best suited for a specific situation relevant to current times. The course is designed in three sections: Digital Instructional Media Design: Storyboarding, Concepts and Approaches to Development Communication and Communication Strategies for Development. In the first section, the course participants will start seeing and exploring various methods of digital storytelling - and applying it to the work. Learners will use storyboard tools, concepts and frameworks for giving a voice to their story. Learners will develop a reflective learning journal using a storyboard tool. In the second section, students will understand various approaches to development communication and reflect on development awareness campaigns to explore the best communication practices. In the third section, they will learn problem tree analysis and P- process. This course will help the learners evolve from the role of an 'information provider', through 'motivator' and 'catalyst of change', to 'Change Agent'.