THE AFRICAN STORYTELLER

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the diversity of the African continent and its storytelling traditions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine the ways African storytellers represent human experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret global processes (social, cultural, political, economic, historical, etc.) through the lens of African storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify, examine, and illustrate knowledge of various storytelling techniques, in both the oral and written storytelling traditions of Africa. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Consider various cultural, social, and historical questions relevant to African storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Practice identifying, examining and interpreting the relationship between literary and cultural, social, and historical discourses. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Craft, support, and articulate arguments about cultural, social, and historical processes. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the diversity of the African continent and its storytelling traditions. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine the ways African storytellers represent human experiences. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interpret global processes (social, cultural, political, economic, historical, etc.) through the lens of African storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify, examine, and illustrate knowledge of various storytelling techniques, in both the oral and written storytelling traditions of Africa. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Consider various cultural, social, and historical questions relevant to African storytelling. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Practice identifying, examining and interpreting the relationship between literary and cultural, social, and historical discourses. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Craft, support, and articulate arguments about cultural, social, and historical processes. Audience: Undergraduate