31 Podcasts (IUPUI)

The following assignment was created by Emily Beckman, Professor of Medical Humanities and Health Studies at IUPUI.

Description:

I’m teaching synchronous live zoom courses this semester, so I’m conducting class much like I would in a classroom. However, I’ve created two new assignments that I hope will encourage student engagement and participation while online. First, students will identify a piece of artwork, music or poetry that represents the experience of addiction. Students will then share these materials with the class and facilitate a discussion before working together on a series of blogposts that will be published on the new MHHS website. This is a new project and we won’t get into it until the second half of the semester, so I don’t really have any materials to share at this point.

For final projects, students will produce a podcast about the literary representation of addiction.

This is an upper-level seminar that is reading and writing intensive. I’m hoping the collaborative nature of these new assignments will work well in the online setting and will encourage the students’ familiarity with the reading material, and their ability to recognize its relevance and articulate that to others through more innovative forms of communication/media.