Storytelling: Radio/Podcasts (MDIA-0166)

Spring 2024 · MDIA 0166 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Studio-seminar explores Audio Storytelling: an interdisciplinary field between podcasting, radio, literature, music, theater, poetry, journalism, activism, politics, cinema, and contemporary art. Learn to tell stories through sound and words. Focus on narrative structures, audio recording and editing techniques, sound design, collective listening sessions, seminar discussions. Map the different histories and genres of narrative sound formats, including works by pioneering figures and contemporary practitioners. The wave of interest in podcasts has revived storytelling forms. Explore this as-yet undefined hybrid territory in all its possibilities. No experience in sound necessary. Introductory course open to all levels. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: MDIA-0166, MDIA 0166, MDIA0166, MDIA-166, MDIA 166, MDIA166

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