The Power of Podcasting

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This course focuses on the power of the heard word, of audio storytelling. In this course, we will listen to the best podcasts available, and study them to find out what makes them so effective. We'll try to understand why we care so much about the people in the stories that are told, and then we will attempt to do our own audio storytelling. By the end of the semester, we will have created our very own multi-episode podcast that aims to do the same things that "This American Life," "Radio Lab," "Serial," and others do: hook listeners. Previously ENGL 2382.