Podcasting

Podcasting is one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing formats in the contemporary media environment. In this course, students get hands-on experience producing their own podcast, learning the process of developing one from forming an idea, strategic planning, and information gathering to recording, editing, and delivery. Along the way, we’ll learn about the contours of the podcasting industry, listen to exemplary podcasts across genres, and talk to expert podcasters about their work.

2023

Selected Projects

In this four-week spring term course, students created their own podcasts in groups of three – from idea to pitch to production, including interviewing, writing, recording and editing. Students produced two episodes of their podcast, along with a strategic plan outlining how their podcast would reach an audience and be financially and logistically sustainable.

Two Truths and a Lie History,” presenting three historical stories for guests to determine which are true and which is fabricated: