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Apr 23, 2024
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MSC-553 Story Psychology: Changing Minds through Narrative4 semester credits
This course addresses the importance of storytelling in Western civilization, culminating in narrative formats used in text, television, film, digital media, and social media. Study the psychology behind how stories originate, evolve, and impact individuals and our media culture. Explore a broad range of narratives and narrative styles and their relationships with personal and social development. Instruction emphasizes conventions of mythology and storytelling as well as literary and cultural issues, the role of media and modes of transmission, and the relationships between narratives and social change. The class will apply established narrative theory in novel ways to better understand modern media, and will include the creation of an original independent digital narrative.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
- Demonstrate a markedly increased awareness and understanding of the role stories play in shaping individual and societal cognition and action, as well as in shaping the student’s own day-to-day experiences.
- Understand story structure and key elements of stories and be capable of applying this understanding across a variety of media and modes of communication, in analyzing stories, advising content creators, and in creating affecting and engaging stories.
- Have applied course knowledge in class discussions, analyses of relevant media, and through creating a purposeful individual.
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