The Art of Storytelling - EDU/HUM/STO 292
The Art of Storytelling is the foundational 3-credit course that offers humanities and cultural diversity awareness credit for students working on Associates and Bachelors degrees. We encourage students interested in the Academic Certificate in Storytelling to take this course first. The course starts by defining storytelling and the oral tradition. Students read and analyze folktales and prepare to tell one in class. The next unit is on myths, legends, and hero tales. This is followed by fact-based and personal stories. Students tell four stories in class and three outside of class.
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The Art of Storytelling will be offered during the Spring 2010 Semester
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Listen to what SMCC student Regina Tellez has to say: "It (the Faculty Concert) opened me up to a whole new thing. I didn't think people told stories like the ones I heard. But everyone spoke with such a presence that it made you listen to what they were saying. I like the fact that storytellers can tell stories about anything they want. They can tell you a story about something in their life or tell you about a whole world that doesn't really exist and take you out of reality for a moment. As I listened to the stories, I could picture the people and the obejcts that were being talked about. I didn't notice it at first but when I went back and thought about the storeis, I realized that I had actually created characters in my head. Storytelling is a great thing, it brings people togther and helps you learn more about who they are. Everyone has a story to tell, but storytellers have a way of telling storeis that make them unforgettable."