COR 385 STORIES OF SELF, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES: ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN UNDERSTANDING
Stories have long been used to document and communicate understandings about the world. The oral tradition of storytelling, once commonplace, seems less relevant in contemporary society. This course will consider stories as narratives of experiences that, while constructed around both fictional or real events, reflect ontological understandings of ideas, phenomena or the self. Narratives offer different approaches to represent and interpret the world, including social, cultural, and epistemic domains. Interrogating narrative requires integrative thinking building from multi-disciplinary perspectives, each providing an approach to understanding the meaning of the narrative. Through dialogic activity around narrative, participants in the course will draw on diverse perspectives to enliven and enrich our disciplinary understandings as well as conceptual understandings of narratives. This course is writing intensive. Open to students in the third or fourth year of study.