Learning Outcomes:
• Apply knowledge on the 'rules' of storytelling to support one’s own writing practice. .
• Gain knowledge of select stories from literature and oral tradition and an understanding of how a story relates to its audience.
• Articulate the universality in codes and structures between historical and contemporary stories.
• Engage with how people tell stories in order to understand the story’s function in understanding persuasion and communication in culture and society.
Indicative Module Content:
• The interdisciplinary approach to this module will allow the student to engage with the overarching concept of storytelling with a core focus on folklore perspectives.
Students will apply methods and principles of the story such as plot, hero and motifs through a structural lens as opposed to a literary approach.
• The material presented will appeal to students interested in effective communication, both oral and written. Storytelling is a key transferable skill of the arts & humanities, and also one of the core skills for the corporate and wider working world.
• It is essential to make connections between the arts and humanities and the wider world, and the theme of storytelling draws on an established base of interdisciplinary research within the College.
• Knowledge of how stories ‘work’ will contribute to our students achieving a greater level of employability.