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VandyVox showcases the best of student-produced audio at Vanderbilt University. Each episode features student work from a curricular or co-curricular project, including audio documentaries, radio dramas, spoken word essays, and ongoing podcasts. VandyVox is a production of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching and Vanderbilt Student Media. To find show notes and past episodes, visit vandyvox.com.
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VandyVox Episode 1-Hagar Rising by Sarah Saxton Strassberg
28/01/2019 Duração: 16minThis episode of VandyVox features a short audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising.” Sarah Saxton was a student in a fall 2018 anthropology course taught by Sophie Bjork-James on the politics of reproductive health in the United States. The final assignment in Sophie’s course asked students to research a contemporary reproductive health issue and produce a piece of video or audio that explores that issue. Sarah Saxton chose to look at gene editing, an emerging set of biotechnologies that have the potential to allow parents to pick and choose physical features of their children. Sarah Saxton used what she learned about gene editing and its potential effects on society to write and produce a piece of science fiction in audio form exploring the dangers of taking gene editing too far.For those interested in using audio assignments in their teaching, what follows is a little background on the assignment that led to “Hagar Rising”…Sophie Bjork-James, Sarah Saxton's profes
