Research Seminar (395-0-22)

Topic

Podcasting the History of Science

Instructors

Shireen Hamza

Meeting Info

Harris Hall L05: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

Instructor: Shireen Hamza

This course will provide students with the opportunity to create a podcast on the history of science together. Taking a global approach to the history of science, each student will conduct original research on an object, text, or other source relevant to the theme of the podcast. Students will learn how to record, edit, and produce sound, while we ask: What counts as signal, and what counts as noise? We will take that question to the archive and the editing studio.

This course will be highly collaborative at every stage. While students will contribute independent research, writing, and production, we will collectively workshop everything.

Learning Objectives

1) Historical research methods, especially those relevant to the global history of science
2) Comfort with sound recording and editing
3) Experience with solo and collaborative writing for podcasts/radio
4) Introductory knowledge of sound studies, thinking about sound as a unique medium

Evaluation Method

In this course, we will produce a podcast series together. We will work collaboratively on the entire series, but one person will be ultimately responsible for each episode. I will suggest a few options, but we will collectively decide how to evaluate our work fairly as a class on day two.

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Distro Area

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Freshmen may not register for this course.