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Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication (GSJC) is a privately-owned higher education institution in Kristiansand, Southern Norway, with approximately 200 students and a staff consisting of 30 lecturers, researchers and administrators. It is owned by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission (NLM), which is an independent mission organization within the Norwegian Lutheran Church (state church). 65% of educational running expences are covered by the Norwegian government. The remaining 35% and other costs are covered by student fees, donations and other incomes.

The vision of the school
The vision of GSJC is to educate journalists and other communicators on a Christian basis with the view to:

• promote truth, unity and understanding in a fragmented world
• protect individuals and make them morally responsible
• establish commonness between people and peoples
• promote freedom of expression and human rights

Bachelor Programmes
GSJC has three bachelor programmes:

• Journalism (Print/Web or Broadcasting)
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Communication and World View

Journalism
Journalism Studies comprises the largest department with approximately 120 students. When the programme was fully accredited by the Norwegian higher education authority in 1997, GSJC became the fifth Journalism Programme in the country. With the restructuring of the Norwegian higher education system in 2002, GSJC was awarded a three-year bachelor's degree in Journalism. The degree consists of two years of specialized Journalism Studies (120 credits), and one year of in-depth study in related or other areas (60 credits). This third year can be taken at GSJC or at any other university college.

Cross-Cultural Communication
The Cross-Cultural Communication Programme will be expanding into a three years bachelor's programme this fall semester (2008). Globalisation has changed the world. People are brought closer to each other at the same time as social and cultural differences are made more evident. Studies in Cross Cultural Communication contribute to understanding  these processes.

Communication and World View
The Communication and World View Bachelor's Programme was accredited in September 2007. This programme focuses on the relevance and credibility of the Christian faith in an increasingly secular and pluralistic context, and equips Christian communicators on various arenas for their tasks. GSJC operates Damaris Norway Inc. as a related activity to this academic field.

GSJC is planning to establish a Master's Degree in Global Journalism from the fall of 2009. The school is also planning a Master's Degree in Communication and World View.

Students do not have to be professing Christians.

The Extension and Consultancy Department
Included in the school is also the Extension and Consultancy Department, which does world-wide consultancy in areas of journalism and communication.
GSJC's staff represent a solid competence in professional media work and international relations. The school has an extensive network of international partners, including Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, the United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Cardiff University in Wales, Universidad San Francisco Xhavier, Sucre, Bolivia, Århus University in Denmark and Fredskorpset, Norway. The largest projects at present are the entrepreneurship of a School and Centre of Journalism and Communication at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad), and a similar project at Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication (KIJAC), Kosovo.
GSJC has also been providing academic staff to a masters degree of communication at Universidad San Fransisco Xavier in Sucre, Boliva. 
In addition GSJC has been engaged in an exchange program supported by Fredskorpset (FK) in cooperation with Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and the organizations for women working in the media in Tanzania (TAMWA) and Ethiopia (EMWA).

Facilities
The school is part of the Gimlekollen Media Centre, which also contains the media production company Sanden Media, and the radio ministry Norea Mediemisjon. The centre also has a cafeteria.
GSJC is situated in very pleasant woodland on a hill some four kilometers from the city centre of Kristiansand. The school comprises a complex of modern buildings with teaching areas and classrooms, seminar rooms, technical rooms for hands-on craft skills learning, a library, office accommodation for faculty and administration staff, together with leisure areas both inside and out. The auditorium is fully equipped with multi media facilities for 200 persons.
The technical facilities at the school include a computer network for handling news stories and newspaper layout, and discrecorders, camcorders and workstations for the assembly of radio and tv news packages.

Contact information

Postal address:
Mediehøgskolen
Servicebox 410
NO-4604 Kristiansand
Norway

Visitor's address:
Bergtorasvei 74
Kristiansand

Phone:
+47 38 14 50 00

Fax:
+47 38 14 50 40

General e-mail:
postmediehogskolenno

Please find staff's e-mail addresses here.