Radio, Journalism & Anthropology with Vertamae Grosvenor is a course detaling various aspects of journalism, reporting & storytelling for media such Radio and audio based reporting. Dr. Grosvenor is a veteran of Radio Journalism with years of experience as a National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent. She was the host of NPR's award-winning documentary series "Horizons" for many years. She is also an author, actress, and expert in culinary journalism having hosted several culinary journalism television shows.

About The Instructor
Dr. Vertamae Grosvenor is a poet, actress, culinary anthropologist, writer, and a correspondent on NPR's Cultural Desk. She was the host of NPR's award-winning documentary series Horizons from 1988 until 1995, when the program was discontinued. Prior to becoming its host, she was a frequent contributor to the program, producing such memorable documentaries as 1983's Slave Voices: Things Past Telling; and Daufuskie: Never Enough Too Soon, which earned her a Robert F. Kennedy Award and an Ohio State Award. Among Grosvenor's other awards are a duPont-Columbia Award and an Ohio State Award, both awarded in 1990, for AIDS and Black America: Breaking the Silence, a series which aired on NPR's newsmagazines. In 1992, she was honored with a National Association of Black Journalists Award for an All Things Considered segment, South Africa and the African-American Experience. She is author of Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, an autobiographical cookbook; and of Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap.