The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA) has introduced two new courses among its seven PG Diploma courses in Art, Culture and related subjects.
The institution has decided to introduce five short-term certificate courses in art, culture and related subjects. Basic aim of these courses is to create arts and culture with all its dimension and information technology to design and develop content exploration systems to intensify culture learning and visualisation. It employees modern digital tools, techniques, and methodologies to achieve the intended purposes. This initiative attempts to make our ancient knowledge and achievements accessible on a multimedia platform, thus enabling communication between the ancient and modern knowledge.
The seven courses, which will commence from August 1, are introduced to attract people towards Indian art with an endeavour to nurture trained manpower in the related fields.
Apart from subjects like Cultural Informatics, Preventive Conservation, Buddhist Studies, Digital Library and Data Management, Manuscriptology and Palaeography, The two new additions to PG Diploma courses are in Cultural Management and South-East (Agneya) Asian Studies.
For the courses, interested candidates can apply before July 8.
