Communication 268 - Storied Encounters

This course approaches stories and storytelling through critical communication and performance studies. Stories and storytelling are sites of encounter: between speaker and listener, social/structural and personal, language and place. To consider ?what stories do? means simultaneously engaging in practices of listening, analysis, and response. The stories we will look at include contemporary non-fiction authors who lend their perspectives to pressing cultural issues and social in/justice. From the study of stories, participants will generate stories grounded in their own experiences with opportunities to share them.

COMM maj w/ 1 100 lvl course All others by permission of instructor. This course was formerly numbered as 297SE. If you have already taken 297SE, you cannot take this course.