Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

JOUR 2230 - Podcasting Survey


This course provides a comprehensive review of the podcasting industry’s past and present with a focus on audio journalism. Course topics include the platform’s emergence and development, tenets and purposes of journalistic podcasts and consumer behavior and industry trends.

Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the professional ethical principles inherent to journalistic podcast production, which include truth, accuracy and diversity of ideas.
  • Students will be able to think critically and independently about the platform’s past and present, and consider its future use.
  • Students will be able to conduct research and evaluate information by methods such as statistical analysis of market trends.
  • Students will be able to describe current tools and technologies appropriate for podcasting in all its digital applications.


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