A busy and a lively year full of academic and scientific activities whose features were vivid at the faculty of mass media – University of Baghdad devoted to the scientific approach of the educational and pedagogical process in order to exchange many new scientific ideas that would transform the reality of higher education during this year and in line with the instructions of the university’s presidency and the ministry of higher education and scientific research. The faculty of mass media witnessed a voluntary work which included cleaning and maintenance of television studio made by the students of the department of journalism accompanied by the dean of the college, Dr. Hashim Hassan who stated that this event came as a result of the instructions of the ministry in this regard.
In conjunction with this voluntary campaign, the 2nd national forum of semiotics in collaboration with the lingual Iraqis Association was held under the slogan (the semiotic curriculum and prospects for application) within the overall strategy of the college to expand the study of this important science in contemporary research that is marked with modernity and keep up with the tremendous evolution in technology, logic and linguistics. Many literary and cultural personalities participated in this forum such as Prof. Dr. Akil Mahdi, Prof. Dr. Majid al-Mashth and Assistant Prof. Rajaa al-Bhaishin. This forum was launched with a speech delivered by the chairman Prof. Dr. Hashim Hasan al-Tamimi explained that the college is eager to hold such a cultural forum to shed light on semiotics as an old and a modern science at the same time according to Faisal al-Ahmar in his lexicon of semiotic where it is old science in its experiments and modern in its proposals and diversity where the Arabs and Iranians cared for over two thousand years. Semiotics is a tool, a methodology and a philosophy and any attempt to segment it is distorting. The forum included several axes such as image, news, text, and press (approaching semiotics), formats of linguistic markup, semiology of literature and language, semiology of color in the Iraqi press and the semiology of text in Iraq. The college of mass media has sponsored many voluntary campaigns like blood donation, cleaning up parks and colleges and develop utilities, etc. Also it witnessed a lot of scientific seminars, conferences and symposiums. University website team and University channel office accompanied the proceedings of this event and documented it with a number of photos and video scenes.
University Activities
–Joint research and scientific cooperation between Center for Women’s Studies at University of Baghdad and Fatimid Center, Najaf
–Lecture on water pollution at the faculty of education (Ibn al-Haytham)
–Educational and psychological research center organizes a symposium on the performance of the leading personality
–Faculty of medicine holds its annual scientific conference
–Center for revival of Arab and scientific heritage holds a seminar on the phenomenon of terrorism
–University of Sheffield supports the faculty of medicine scientifically and practically
–Ceremony for signing of the book of Iraqi architecture encyclopedia at the college of engineering
–Faculty of engineering honors a number of its professors
–Faculty of agriculture launches a campaign for voluntary work
–Professors and students of the faculty of medicine visit the inured fighters of our security forces and popular crowd
–A lecture on the violence against women and its health effects by the college of nursing
–Faculty of science hosts the ceremony of UNICEF on the occasion of its foundation
–Women’s Studies Center at the University of Baghdad recalls world day against violence against women
–Researchers from the faculty of engineering get a patent
–The American Ambassador visits the general secretariat of the central library
–Instructor from the college of mass media gives a lecture on the image of the great prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the American media
–Market research center participates in a workshop to combat counterfeiting and forgery
–Football team of University of Baghdad gains the Iraqi universities championship
–Faculty of medicine embraces a charity market in support of the popular crowd martyrs
–Development and continuing education center holds a course through video lectures
