Dear English Majors and Minors, Media Studies is offering 2 new classes in the fall: Podcasting and Writing Across Media. Both classes are online. These courses may be of particular interest to those students looking to promote their work through online platforms. While they don't count toward the English major, you might find them to be a fun supplement to learning about literature and writing. If you're interested in enrolling in these courses, please email the professor and include your CUNYFirst ID. Emails are listed by their names. MEDST 281-02 Intermediate Studies in Media, Podcasting (Course Code 46202) Synchronous, Mondays 9:10AM Professor Josh Chapdelaine jchapdelaine93@gmail.com? Students will learn how to conduct original podcast research, produce original content ranging from individual shows to mini-series, and podcast production. MEDST 281-04 Intermediate Studies in Media, Writing Across Media (Course Code 57897) Asynchronous Professor Douglas Rushkoff Douglas.Rushkoff@qc.cuny.edu This course will offer students the opportunity to develop writing skills across a wide variety of traditional and new media, from newspaper Op Eds and TV commercials to social media campaigns and screenplays. In doing so, we will not only learn and hone the techniques required for mastery of particular media and platforms, but we will also study the changing nature of rhetoric and narrative in different media environments. Note: You will learn to write from a NY Times bestselling author, columnist for CNN, Medium, Daily Beast, writer of PBS documentaries, and two new fictional TV series.... Meet Your Professor -- Douglas Rushkoff Named one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of 20 books including Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human - which is also a weekly podcast. He made the TV documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Generation Like, and appears regularly on shows from All Things Considered to Stephen Colbert. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Sincerely, The English Department http://english.qc.cuny.edu/ Klapper 607 718-997-4600 [like_us_on_facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/QCENGL>