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Course Syllabi
Review of Radio Studies Teaching
This is an article published in The Radio Journal in 2004, written by Eryl Price-Davies of Thames Valley University. It surveys the teaching of radio studies in universities in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the US. Download article.
Audio Production Workshop – Prof. Michael Huntsberger
This class provides a brief introduction to the principles, tools, and techniques of digital audio recording, editing and production. Through lectures, demonstrations, and hand-on experiences in the lab and the field, students will gain an understanding of the nature of sound, basic microphone usage, digital audio recording equipment and techniques, digital sound editing using Audacity software, writing, narration, and production techniques used in news and audio documentaries. Download the course syllabus.
Radio in Culture and Society – Prof. Michael J. Keith
Electronic media have had a profound impact on our world. Indeed, broadcasting has shaped attitudes and perceptions in almost every area of human experience and endeavor. Because of the power and pervasiveness of the radio medium, it is important that we understand and fully appreciate the way in which it has operated and conducted itself concerning the fair and just treatment of all social groups at a time when cultural diversity and multiculturalism are issues of great importance to us. Likewise it is important to learn how these groups have employed the medium to address their special concerns and agendas. Therefore, this course will seek to examine and analyze the role of broadcast radio in non-mainstream segments (minority, counterculture, extremist, and alternative-lifestyle clusters) of the population. Since the inception of the first electronic mass medium, participation in it has been primarily limited to members of the nation’s ruling majority, namely Anglo males. In the last quarter century, so-called “outerculture” or “fringe” groups have asserted their rights to a fair and equal access to the airwaves as a means for mollifying, if not reversing, the negative perceptions and stereotypes that have prevented them from fully benefiting from citizenship in the world’s preeminent democracy. Download course syllabus.
Sound Histories: Graduate Seminar in Media History and Historiography - Prof. Michele Hilmes
This seminar focuses on “Sound Histories” in two senses. First, we will concentrate on the theory and practice of media historiography, through readings and an introduction to archival research, as a way to think about what history is and how it can be practiced in a “sound” manner – and what that implies. Second, we will center our historical readings on “sound histories:” historical work that focuses on the emerging field of “sound studies,” or the study of aural culture in the US. This includes aspects of music history, radio history, aural aesthetics, sound technologies, and the listening practices they produce. Questions to which we will address ourselves include: what challenges does aural culture present to historians? How might we define “sound studies” as a field, and what are its parameters? Can we discern the beginnings of “sound theory” emerging from the readings in this class, or if not, from what theoretical bases do these histories proceed? How can we position histories of sound culture within the visual emphasis predominant in media studies? Download course syllabus.
Radio in American Culture – Prof. Tona Hangen
This course provides an in-depth study of the history and culture of radio broadcasting in America. We will cover the development of the technology of broadcasting, the radio industry, the network system, and discuss the content and cultural impact of a wide variety of radio genres from 1920 to the present, including news, talk radio, drama, comedy, soap opera, advertising, religious programming, documentary, Top-40 music, and more. This course will help you place radio in the context of cultural studies, media studies, and history of communication. Students will gain an understanding of radio’s role in the American past and present as an institution, as a business practice, and as a major force in American popular culture. Download course syllabus.
Radio, Rzecords, and Popular Music - Prof. Eric Rothenbuhler
This is a course about the interaction of communication technologies and media industries in the evolution of American popular music, from the 1920s to today. Examines musical aesthetics, style, and expression in relation to the record and radio industries, their growing audiences, and some major issues of changing social order, including race, class, sex, regionalism, urbanism, and migration. Dowload the course syllabus.
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