JOURN 125 - Podcasting Laboratory

Credits: 5
This hands-on course instructs students on how to take an idea for a podcast and make it a reality. Interviewing techniques and strategies for gaining an audience are emphasized. Students learn about developing narratives and how different styles of podcasts are produced while working hands-on with equipment and software. Instruction in podcast promotion, distribution and monetization is also featured.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Understand different styles of podcasts.
Apply best practices in creating professional sounding audio.
Understand and properly use professional audio recording equipment and editing techniques.
Develop scriptwriting, interview, and content-creation skills for podcasts.
Identify storytelling techniques and develop a narrative.
Recognize the principles of distribution, promotion and monetization of podcasts.

Program Outcomes
Apply relevant criteria and standards when evaluating information in terms of how it will interest and inform their audience.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.