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KNIT
and its Academic Centres train more than 10,000 students
and teachers annually, nationwide. These workshops help
build better career and human relationship skills, through
a close study of literature.
Now, the Katha National Institute of Translation offers
you special packages that you can franchise for your college/
school. This will enable you to excite your students into
peer learning and mentoring activities, as well as into
taking control over their own learning.
When you opt for the Katha Club at your college/school,
it gives you the facility to offer a range of exciting
activities for registered participants to choose from
- either formally organized courses that lead to a Katha
certificate or fun activities each month - in your own
college/school!
COLLEGE
PROGRAMME
OPTION I: Katha Certificate Courses that you can choose
from for your college.
THE WRITERS WORKSHOP helps students to review,
evaluate, and hone their writing skills. For people who
have at least a story written and ready to discuss, the
workshop helps participants develop creativity and an
ability to share ideas and insights, and to appreciate
other points of view.
Learning to play the role of a moderator: It is the responsibility
of a lead moderator to ensure that the atmosphere of the
workshop is conducive to constructive, insightful discussions
- useful skills for those on decision-making career paths.
THE TRANSLATORS WORKSHOP. Hands-on training
in the art and craft of translation through peer group
interactions, with special inputs from Katha editors.
An exciting, fast-growing field for people with bilingual
skills. Learn how you can enjoy what actually pays! Translations
done under this programme will be considered for possible
publication by Katha.
FICTION APPRECIATION. Students learn to look
closely at texts and to enjoy narratives. Analytical and
reflective skills that enhance creativity in negotiations,
inter-personal relationships, problem solving. Builds
language skills for multi-cultural, multi-lingual situations.
An added bonus - the ability to culturelink, the urgent
need in a globalized economy.
FICTION EDITING. A hands-on course that introduces
students to the challenge of designing, typesetting, font
management ... and more! Certificate holders can opt,
later, for a one-year part time diploma course in the
form of an internship at the Katha office. Just for a
select few!
TEACHING TRANSLATION. For students planning
careers in academia - Pedagogy of teaching. Finding and
creating the resources and tools needed to help break
the culture of silence; exploring creative teaching techniques.
TRANSLATION & THE MEDIA. For students who
see themselves in advertising or television, radio, films.
Introductions to topics ranging from dubbing and sub-titling
to creative use of language.
21 MANAGEMENT. India: The Real & the Imagined.
A 30-hour certificate course. Challenging all the way!
OPTION
II: Through this extension you can offer leadership
building activities to students, helping them create programmes
to their liking, using Katha models. A packet of exciting
activities - e Quizzes, Debates e Contests e Role play
e Reviewing e Meet-the-Author sessions
PLUS!
KATHA KHOJ! 15-day discovery trips for Club
members. Taste the food, enjoy the dance, music and culture
feast of the region, revel in the unique architecture,
the people.
2000 offering: Katha in Kerala
INTERNETTING. The pleasures of exploring the
Net. One free workshop for Katha Club members.
DURATION
OF THE COURSE. Katha Club activities will be held
only when college is in session. Each certificate course
will last 30 hours, spread over seven monthly meetings,
unless students want to organize it otherwise. Katha is
open to suggestions and innovative ideas!
Activities on an intercollegiate level can be organized
by Katha for participating colleges.
FOR undergraduate and graduate students.
KATHA PROVIDES
a.
Training for moderators. Plan of action for sessions.
b· An introductory workshop for students &
teachers.
c· Selected resource materials. Additional information
from the Net. Start-up kits with information
on setting up the Club, reading lists, do-it-yourself
modules to launch peer group discussions.
Contacts in publishing houses.
d· Sufficient funding to bridge expenses.
e· A list of resource people for the various courses.
f· Certificate of excellence and of participation
on completion of any of the certificate courses given
above.
Come join the Katha movement! For
more details,
Please contact us at - Tel: 6868193, 6521752 Fax: 651
4373.
Email: katha@vsnl.com
Started
in 1988 and formally registered as a society on September
8, 1989, Katha has striven to establish a code of excellence
in all that it does. Katha's main objective is to enhance
the pleasures of reading for children and adults, for
experienced readers and those who are just beginning to
read.
A nonprofit organization, Katha works with equal dedication
and commitment through well-defined programmes at the
two ends of the literacy-literature spectrum - in the
areas of literacy, children's and women's education and
empowerment at one end, and in language, literature, culture
and translation at the other. In brief:
1. KALPAVRIKSHAM, the Centre for Sustainable
Learning
2. The Katha School of Entrepreneurship
3. Shakti Khazana
4. Kalpana, NFE Teachers Resource Centre
5. KATHA VILASAM, the Story & Translation
Research & Resource Centre
6. Katha Books
7. Kathakar, the Centre for Children's Literature
8. Katha Academic Publishing Programme
9. Katha Barani, the Translation Resource
Centre
10. KADAL, the Katha Adivasi & Dalit Literatures Resource
Centre.
11. KANCHI, The Katha School of Translation and Innovative
Education
12. Katha Academic Centres in various Indian universities
13. The Faculty Development Programme
14. Sishya - Workshops for students
15. Management through Fictions - Workshop
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