ENGW 080 - College Writing: Narrative Beginners

In this course we will learn various ways to create and refine our own life stories. This course is an exploration of autobiographical writings and life narratives as ways to (de)(re)form identity. We’ll be considering how the stories we tell and write about ourselves work to form our “selves.” How is the self being written connected to, created by, the self writing? What goes into this complicated interpretive act, particularly considering how “selves” exist in/are shaped by issues of gender, race, age, ethnicity, nationality, class, and culture? How significant are autobiographical accountings to the people telling and the people listening/reading? What work do they do in our lives?

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Credits: 1