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Wee Kim Wee
School of Communication and Information
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637718
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The Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information building was built in 1996, and is a $22.6 million facility with 7,025 sq m of floor space. The four-storey SCI building curves around an airy central courtyard where students socialise, snack and study. Spread over the four stories are a courtyard amphitheatre, lecture hall, tutorial rooms, electronic production suites and the school's new Asian Resource Communication Centre (ACRC).
Hands-on training, and keeping abreast of changes are vital in the communications industry. Therefore, our facilities have to be state-of-the-art so that our students maintain their competitive edge.
Computer Laboratories
Our School maintains three computer labs for instruction in writing, reporting, editing, design, promotional communication and multimedia productions.
All our labs have web browser software and fast Internet connections through NTU's Centre for IT Services, plus a variety of software titles for word-processing, desktop publishing in both English and Chinese, and web design. When the labs are not in use for classes, students have free access to computers to check their email, surf the Internet or finish class assignments.
We have dedicated labs for different needs. Our photojournalism students enjoy both a traditional lab and a computer lab for digital imaging. Communication Research students have access to both a research lab and a computer-assisted telephone interview system (CATI) for conducting public opinion and marketing/consumer research. Multimedia production is also possible with an advanced lab equipped with powerful workstations, CD-ROM recorders and software for audio, video, graphic editing and multimedia authoring.
The Information Studies Labs are equipped with state-of-the-art computing facilities and resources to support teaching and research. The laboratories have two training rooms, a seminar room, and over 60 Pentium PCs that are local area networked to Windows NT servers, a CD-ROM server and printer servers.
Electronic Media Studio
Our sophisticated media studios are good training grounds for our students to enter the broadcast and electronic media industry in Singapore and beyond.
We have an audio production suite, two radio production and presentation suites, two television production studios and directing galleries. The audio production studio is equipped with a multi-channel mixer and sound equipment offering recording and playback formats for mastering and editing. We have the latest technology in digital sound recording, editing and manipulation in our post-production suite.
Our television production studios and directing galleries are available for courses and student projects. Both are outfitted for scene-and-set dramatic productions and broadcast-journalism instruction. The larger of the galleries has a digital video-effects editor and the smaller is equipped with the latest in "cold" lighting technology. Besides studio cameras, students have access to field-production units for on-location productions or for connecting to a network for a location telecast.
AMIC Headquarters
The Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) is also housed within the SCI building. AMIC is a non-profit organisation, and seeks to elevate the standards of mass communication teaching, training, research and practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
It works with UNESCO to promote information dissemination, conducts seminars and training programmes for media practitioners and government policy-makers, and publishes books, journals and communication research reports.
The School and AMIC collaborate in presenting conferences and seminars and publishing the Asian Journal of Communication, the Asian Communication Handbook and Media Asia.. |
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