ENG 4615 Fall 2023 Browdy

This course offers a theoretical and practical approach to the digital world of podcasting. Students will use rhetorical theory and concepts to think critically about podcasts as a growing genre of user-generated content, a personal/political/social digital platform, a source of news and entertainment, marketing/branding, etc. Students will then use this theorization of podcasts to inform their development, workshopping, and publishing of their own podcast. At the conclusion of this course, students will have had opportunities to do the following: 1) think critically about podcasts as a rhetorical genre, 2) consider their own ethics, perspectives, and positions of power as consumers and producers of podcasts, and 3) develop, write, record, edit, and publish their own podcast.