What’s Your Story?

This course introduces students to the tools they need to discover and analyze the diverse lives of others, peers, and themselves to build a richer understanding of our past, including adversity-type events, and how it forms one’s individual narrative. Methods for students to gain analytical, comprehension, and communication (writing and oral) skills include: journal, prompts, and formal writing; use of technology tools for research, writing, collaboration and presentation; fiction and non-fiction text and media analysis; comparing and contrasting human experience stories; reflection activities; story mapping; gaining observation, reflection, and questioning skills.

Instructors: Alicia Wenzel and Cindy Ryan
Keywords: Self & Identity, Storytelling, Communication & Humanity
CRN: 20929

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Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Luckiamute Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

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