Cooperative education internship assignments provide experience related to each student's academic interests. For more information on potential assignment, visit Career Development Services in 315 Calvin Hall. Our capacity to create pictures of what our lives should be and how we are involved in others' lives comes down to telling stories. This seminar presents a philosophy of storytelling and provides experience in both telling and listening to stories.
Students consider the role of storytelling as acts of interpretation.
They explore why stories are told to explain why something happened one way instead of another, and learn to recognize how telling stories is the practice of unraveling the connections and directions of human action. The course is taught by Thunder-McGuire. This course focuses on a variety of issues concerning the nature of personal and cultural identity within our pluralistic society. A central line of inquiry is consideration of which aspects of identity are constant and which are culturally constructed. The course is broadly interdisciplinary in scope, involving guest faculty from across the University.