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Advanced Audio: Podcasting (JOUR90024)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 |
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This subject is designed to augment the skills learned in Audio Journalism and extend them into longform podcasts. In this hands-on subject, students will work together to create a class podcast. Through this experience, they will learn how to develop content ideas, how to plan podcast series, how to structure an episode of a podcast, and how to brand and promote their work. They will listen to longform podcasts to understand best practice and the ethics of this newly emerging genre, as well as gaining an understanding of the role that podcasts are playing in our media environment. They will also learn to create longform audio work.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Demonstrate hands-on experience creating longform audio packages
- Structure, plan and produce a podcast series
- Understand the history of podcasting, the podcast environment, and different types of this genre of longform audio
- Brand and promote a podcast series.
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Work collaboratively in a team
- Demonstrate development and practical application of planning skills
- Effectively use new media technologies
- Demonstrate skills in marketing and branding media products.
Last updated: 8 November 2024