Course Details

Course offered Autumn 2024

HONORS 345 A: Narratives of Self and Society (C)

HONORS 345 A: Narratives of Self and Society (C)

SLN 16452 (View UW registration info »)

Nicole Peters (English)
Email: petersnc@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 23 students

5 seats reserved for incoming freshmen

This class will look at storytelling and ways of knowing through personal essays and memoirs, tracing how nonfiction genres offer unique spaces to consider epistemologies of the self while simultaneously speaking to shared human experiences. We will discuss how various narratives use the self as a starting point to integrate/extrapolate into the social as a way to process, understand, and engage with the world.
Amidst reading a diverse range of personal narratives (written, visual, spoken), students will write weekly reflections that unpack their experiences of consuming and engaging these texts, while also developing their abilities to tell their own stories across a range of genres and mediums.