Kennesaw State’s University College created a new podcast meant to tell stories about the different classes that can be taken in UC as an advising and support initiative.
The first episode of University College Podcast Network aired last week and gave information about KSU’s freshman seminar courses. The freshman seminar is a class that is special to KSU, according to the podcast.
Brandon Apter, UC social media and marketing specialist and the host of the podcast, said he sees the potential of a class that will help incoming freshman with how to take notes, study for a test or how to be successful in college, which is why the first episode is centered around the course.
Apter gave an example of a freshman going to UGA right out of high school. He talked about the struggles a freshman would have in an overwhelmingly large environment without the right guidance, and also showed how that would not happen at KSU with the freshman seminar class in place.
However, Apter said that, with all of the focus on the first podcast about the freshman course, it is easy to think that the podcast’s target audience is freshmen. Apter said this is not the case and the new podcast is meant for all students at KSU, no matter the age difference.
“Podcasts are not unique to a college campus, but no one else was starting one for the betterment of the students, so I stepped in and made it happen,” Apter said.
Apter plans on coming out with a new episode every two to three weeks for the first four issues but said he plans to later make it a biweekly podcast.
When asked where the podcast would be in six months to a year away, his response was, “that’s just the goal. I want to be able to communicate with the students and faculty for that long of a period.”
There are multiple departments in the UC, including the Department of University College Advising Services, Department of Leadership and Integrative Studies, Orientation and Transition Programs, Department of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality and the Department of First-Year and Transition Studies.
UCPN can currently be streamed on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher and Soundcloud. Apter said the name of the podcast is subject to change.
To subscribe as well as apply to be on the podcast, you can go to www.uc.kennesaw.edu/podcast.php or email Apter himself at bapter@kennesaw.edu.
