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May 11, 2024
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2022-2023 Academic Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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COMM 310 - PodcastingCredits: 3
The goal of this course is to teach the skills of long-form audio communication and digital storytelling, and the techniques of nonfiction storytelling used in the creation of podcasts. This course will prepare students to tell complex stories using strong character-driven narrative. The goal of the course will be for students to work in groups to create a pilot season of their own podcast totaling no less than 4 episodes. The final project will be a pitch, where students create a proposal to be sent to media organizations and podcast studios detailing what their show is, what makes it different, their number of downloads, and audience demographics. We will run the class as a lab, with lecture, guest speakers, and team meetings. We’ll have pitch meetings, where teams have to present their audio stories to the class and explain the strategic plan and script for each of their four episodes. More broadly, we’ll stay up to date on the changing landscape of audio storytelling – the impact of podcasts on legacy media like NPR, emerging for-profit business models, and responses to shifting audience demographics – with readings and criticism.
Lecture/Lab: Weekly: lectures & 1-hour lab
Course/Lab Fee: Yes
Grade Mode: Normal (A-F,I,W)
Schedule Type: Lecture/Lab
College Code: CAS
Click here for the Schedule of Classes.
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