affiliated courses

COMS 4501: Digital Media Production

Our primary COMS collaboration, and the course out of which The Place of Sound was born. Since 2020, students of Digital Media Production have built portfolio websites and produced original audio work that often features on the show. This course page links to a large archive of student portfolio websites, from which content of the show was selected.

COMS 5102: Sound Studies

A graduate seminar introducing students to key debates and theoretical approaches in the field of sound studies. Students developed audio papers that put course-based frameworks and theories into conversation with their own research projects. Thus far, two of these projects have been featured in an episode of The Place of Sound.

COMS 5218: Sound, Space, and the City

A special topics graduate seminar where students developed research-driven projects on listening and urban space. Several pieces developed during this semester aired on The Place of Sound. Visit the course page to explore the projects and brief notes on method, context, and the collaborating partners for the semester.