Pump Up the Volume: Collaboration and Cultural Impact Through Podcasting

3 units

When you're walking to class or catching a shuttle, what's playing in your earbuds? Music, perhaps. Or maybe you're listening to one of the more than 800,000 podcasts available to stream at any given moment. From tracking the rise and fall of Theranos' founder Elizabeth Holmes to unapologetic musings about life from recovering addict and actor Dax Shepard, podcasts have never been more primed to take our ears, our minds, and our hearts by storm. In this course, students will examine this phenomenon and its value in our global-minded culture and put into practice the storytelling skills we will observe from a collection of podcasts by creating our own podcast episode. Together, we will find out what happens when you fuse creative impulse with rigorous research and let it loose on the airwaves.