Memoir and Media: Crafting Voice and Meaning

3-0-9 units. HASS-E · Undergraduate

Explores the memoir genre in different forms of media with particular attention paid to the narrative construction of memory and the storytelling techniques used to shape lived experience. Spanning diaries, personal notes, comics, plays, essays, documentary films, music, spoken word, and traditional written memoir, readings center on themes of heritage, identity, and family legacy. Students engage in a final project that begins as a written piece, then, through the revision process, becomes a new media form. Limited to 18.