Module: Podcasting

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Podcasting
Module Code	JRR1011 (ITS: CM262)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	Communications
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	10

Description

To equip students to research and critique the field of radio podcasting, and to make their own podcast episode

Learning Outcomes

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2. Research and analyse the podcasting radio landscape
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7. Identify what makes engaging chat and narrative podcast series
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12. Learn how to review and critique artistic work
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17. Refresh skills in recording, voicing and editing for radio
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22. Write accurate, fluent and engaging scripts
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27. Identify topical stories and original news angles for specific radio audiences
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32. Operate portable audio equipment to record interviews and location sound to a professional standard
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37. Find and approach people in the news, obtain their consent, conduct interviews with due sensitivity in different circumstances, and record interviews
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42. Use digital software to edit and mix recorded narration, interviews and location sound to a professional standard
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47. Demonstrate mature judgement in applying legal and ethical standards
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*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Lecture	12	Weekly lectures
Laboratory	12	Practical workshops
Assignment Completion	60	Editorial and technical assignments
Independent Study	102	Regular critical listening
Independent Study	64	Required reading (including internet resources)
Total Workload: 250

Section Breakdown
CRN	10862	Part of Term	Semester 1
Coursework	100%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	40PASS	Pass Both Elements	N
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Colleen Murrell	Module Teacher	Alice O'Sullivan, Declan Fahy

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Assignment	Script, record and edit a 5-minute radio review that examines three podcast episodes or programmes.	40%	Week 7
Assignment	Research, record and edit either a story-based narrative podcast (10 minutes) or a chat-show format podcast (15 minutes).	60%	Sem 1 End

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution by Martin Spinelli
Book that analyses the evolving media landscape of podcasting

Indicative Reading List

Books:

Martin Spinelli,Lance Dann: 2019, Podcasting, Bloomsbury Academic, 280, 9781501328695
Dario Llinares,Neil Fox,Richard Berry: 2018, Podcasting, Palgrave Macmillan, 316, 9783319900551

Articles:

Siobhan McHugh: 2016, Researching the Podcast Audio Storytelling Genre, The Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 14(1), 17, https://dx.doi.org/10.1386/rajo.14.1.65_1, 511572
2019: Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism, Nieman Storyboard, https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/subjectivity-hugs-and-craft-podcasting-as-extreme-narrative-journalism/,

Other Resources

None

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