Education


The BRAMS Institute is committed to achieving robust educational objectives alongside its core research activities. The brams.edu.ge branch offers short- and long-term courses across a range of disciplines, drawing on American and British textbooks as well as original BRAMS publications.

On successful completion of a course, participants are invited to sit a test comprising closed and/or open questions. Candidates who achieve more that 51% of the total marks will receive a personalised certificate.

Courses offered:

Foreign languages

  • English language and culture
  • Elementary Georgian
  • Georgian for beginners
  • Georgian language and culture
  • Russian for beginners
  • Russian language and culture
  • Elementary Italian
  • Italian for beginners
  • Elementary turkish

Journalism and mass communication

  • Basics of journalism
  • Gathering and developing the news
  • History of world journalism
  • Multimedia communication
  • The modern western media
  • The problematic scope of journalism
  • Theory of publicistic genres
  • Debates and interviewing
  • Communication theory
  • News literacy for digital citizens
  • Citizen journalism
  • Magazine journalism
  • Creative writing
  • Blogging 101
  • Vlogging 101
  • Photo journalism
  • Video editing

Political communication

  • The media and political image
  • The print media and the image of political figures
  • The media and authoritarian regimes
  • Modern political communication
  • Memes in the viral age
  • Politics and public relations
  • Moral foundations of politics

Media studies

  • Media law and deontology
  • Media ethics
  • Ethical decision-making
  • The composition of a media text
  • The architectonics of a journalistic text
  • The structure of hypertext
  • Writing and editing for media
  • Content strategy
  • Introduction to web journalism
  • Transmedia storytelling
  • Bloggers and the blogosphere
  • Internet media
  • Media management
  • Mobile journalism (MoJo)
  • Creative photography for beginners

Computer science

  • Agile and scrum
  • Python
  • The structure of information networks
  • Networking and wireless
  • Introduction to database systems
  • Privacy in the digital age
  • Introduction to the theory of computing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer security
  • Advanced system security
  • Operating systems
  • Application development
  • Cloud computing
  • Computer architecture
  • Data storage
  • Analytics and data management
  • IT service management
  • Project management
  • Leadership and management
  • Unified communications
  • Computer graphics and vision
  • Software engineering
  • Programming languages
  • Educational technology
  • Essential digital skills

World culture

  • Introduction to cultural heritage
  • Culture of a country of your choice
  • Introduction to opera
  • Classical composers
  • World music
  • Masterpieces of world literature
  • Film
  • Mythology
  • African studies
  • Asian studies
  • European studies
  • Georgian wine
  • Ancient Georgian literature
  • General Ccurse in Georgian literature
  • Protocol and etiquette
  • Crochet and knitting
  • Introduction to Georgian cuisine

History

  • History of cinematography
  • Historical interpretation of film and images
  • History of a country of your choice

To enrol, please complete the online registration form.