HUMT 1850 - Storytelling Across Cultures

5 credit hours
As part of your Jesuit education, you’ll be exposed to many strategies for confronting our most important human issues-though problem-solving isn’t limited to logic alone. In complement to other kinds of analytic skills that you may be developing among your college courses, this class will help you delve into creative written expression as a means of understanding, reimagining, and responding to worldly challenges, whether for the purpose of work, personal fulfillment, or social advocacy. Along the way, we will consider the rich array of storytelling characteristics across its many cultural contexts-near and far. Along the way, we will study the artistic decisions that authors make, and we’ll begin our own work as socially-engaged writers. Class time will include explorations of genre and craft, open conversations about sample texts, writing exercises, and discussion of student work. Most importantly, you will be able to begin investigating you own motivations for writing-personal and public-and your connections to communities large and small.