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Comm 3520| Spring 2022 Episodes
Comm 3520 explores radio journalism and exposes students to news writing, reporting, covering a beat, interviewing sources and producing news for broadcast. These episodes are a collection of students’ final projects covering topics such as Covid, Utah history, environmental politics, and the fight against anti-Asian sentiment. Click Here to Listen
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Transforming the Virtual Classroom: Faculty feature with Natalie Stillman-Webb
More than a decade ago, Natalie Stillman-Webb, writing and rhetoric studies professor/lecturer at the University of Utah, was paying for her children’s tennis lessons when the front desk attendant said he recognized her name from an online class he had taken the previous semester. After asking the young man’s name, she remembered an excellent paper he had written and commented on it. However, he was confused. He knew he had seen her name before but did not realize that the robot he thought ran his online class was a living, breathing member of the university faculty.
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Jeffrey McCarthy: The Climate Crisis and the Threat to Democracy
Reactionary politics and climate change are connected. At the dawn of 2023 that connection may seem obscure, but ongoing droughts, mega-storms and displaced people will aggravate America’s existing political tensions.