news honors students take on podcasting and kamala harris october 26 2020 honors students take on podcasting and kamala harris tasha dubriwny challenged her comm honors students to create podcasts around current issues in womens rhetoric and electoral politics 'women's rhetoric: election 2020' is now live by hannah brennan associate professor tasha dubriwny phd faculty member tasha dubriwny challenged the honors students from her womens rhetoric class to create a podcast about vice presidential candidate kamala harris womens rhetoric: election 2020 will have nine episodes total one per honors student in the womens rhetoric class said dubriwny she added each episode is six to eight minutes and are posted weekly at politicalwomanpodbeancom in the run up to election day tuesday nov 3 instead of requiring an extra assignment or test for her honors students dubriwny said she intended the podcast to be fun and interactive with current issues about womens rhetoric and electoral politics one thing about the department of communication is that we have a great honors program said dubriwny our honors students get the opportunity to do something different and unique dubriwny said she is encouraging creative freedom to not constrain students but requires a written draft of the podcast script one week before recording remote learning has required students to record and edit individually she added the fun thing about podcasts is that podcasts are easy said dubriwny theyre easy to produce in a sense you can just have your phone some episodes include history of the vice presidency harriss biography political experience and background and speech analysis dubriwny said the goal is to catch the interest of college students and inform them about the vice presidential candidate said megan cherry an honors student in dubriwnys class my personal episode is called ‘shes not the first giving homage to other women in politics that have paved the way for her having this platform and space said cherry its also acknowledging that its incredible to have a woman of color as the running mate for a presidential candidate so its a really great step forward progressing toward equality christine koellner comm honors student recorded the third episode im speaking cherry added she has been interested in how the media portrays harris compared to her male counterparts she has noticed harris usually is asked about what she is wearing and her family when her peers are asked about policy i think its really cool shes giving younger generations of girls hope said christine koellner another comm honors student in america women are 51% majority so our time is coming we need to stand our ground koellners episode im speaking is based on the vice presidential debate where mike pence repeatedly interrupted harris koellners episode emphasizes four debate takeaways and cites online npr articles she said koellner said the debate inspired both her mom too my mom said ‘damn right we need to have young girls in america look up to her and think i can stand my ground too said koellner to start listening to womens rhetoric: election 2020 episode one why kamala harris click here dept news events in the department research comm honors student commhonorsstudent communication communication honors student communications department of communication election election day elections faculty hannah brennan hannahbrennan honorsstudents in the media in the news kamala harris kamalaharris multimedia new media podcasts politics social media tamu tamu comm tamu comm department tamu podcast tasha dubriwny tashadubriwny vice president women and gender studies women's rhetoric women'srhetoric womenandgenderstudies