Spring 2025 First-Year Seminar BC1760 section 002

Storytelling

STORYTELLING

Call Number 00313
Day & Time
Location
MW 4:10pm-5:25pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Michael Shelichach
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

Why do we tell stories? Why do we feel a need to relate the things that happen to us? Why do writers and artists make things up? In this section of First-Year Seminar, we will explore these questions as well as others connected to the fundamental practice of storytelling. We will read and discuss short stories, novels, and memoirs that reflect on or call into question the narrator’s reasons for telling the story. We will also consider essays by literary critics, psychologists, and scientists on the human impulse to narrate. Literary texts may include works by Henry James, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Shirley Jackson, Haruki Murakami, and Carmen Maria Machado. Critical and theoretical texts may include works by Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard
Enrollment 16 students (16 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Seminar
Number BC1760
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20251FYSB1760X002