Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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HC 3100 - Analyzing and Constructing Personal Narratives
This course introduces students to a variety of narrative theories and methodological approaches drawn from multiple academic disciplines, including psychology, rhetoric, anthropology, and literature. Students apply these theories in their analyses of personal essays, memoirs, autobiographies, and other examples of personal writing, as well as the construction of their own personal narratives.
Requisites: Student in the OHIO Honors program
Credit Hours: 1
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to articulate connections between texts and specific narrative theories.
- Students will be able to identify contextual distinctions across texts in terms of audience, authorial identity and experience, socio-cultural influences, and other factors.
- Students will be able to explain how personal narratives operate in different genres or formats.
- Students will be able to produce personal narratives that effectively address specific audiences and intended outcomes.
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