This course explores the rhetorical and literary dimensions of storytelling, asking how migration narratives shape personal identity, cultural memory, and public discourse. Drawing from a diverse selection of world literature, we will examine how writers and artists across cultures and genres use storytelling to navigate borders—geographical, political, and personal—and to make sense of the self in relation to larger global contexts.
Students will develop their writing through a variety of genres—including literary and visual analysis, personal narratives, autoethnographic essays, and multimodal remix projects—each beginning from lived experience and expanding toward broader social, cultural, and political questions. Through collaboration with Writing Center tutors, students will engage in guided conferences and peer feedback sessions to support revision and reflection.
This is a Writing Center-supported seminar, meaning that students will receive individualized support from the instructor and will work closely with experienced Writing Center tutors assigned to the course.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze how storytelling functions as a tool for constructing and communicating identity across borders.
- Recognize and reflect on the relationship between narrative form and meaning in a range of global texts.
- Apply concepts from world literature to their own writing practice.
- Craft compelling personal narratives that connect individual experience to larger cultural and political contexts.
- Engage in revision as a deliberate and creative part of the writing process.
- Develop and refine storytelling techniques to narrate their own lives with clarity, purpose, and voice.
Course Readings
- Exit West – Mohsin Hamid (2017)
- Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders – Shahram Khosravi (2010)
- Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler (2018)
- Any other supplemental readings are posted on Moodle.
Students will develop their writing through a variety of genres—including literary and visual analysis, personal narratives, autoethnographic essays, and multimodal remix projects—each beginning from lived experience and expanding toward broader social, cultural, and political questions. Through collaboration with Writing Center tutors, students will engage in guided conferences and peer feedback sessions to support revision and reflection.
This is a Writing Center-supported seminar, meaning that students will receive individualized support from the instructor and will work closely with experienced Writing Center tutors assigned to the course.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze how storytelling functions as a tool for constructing and communicating identity across borders.
- Recognize and reflect on the relationship between narrative form and meaning in a range of global texts.
- Apply concepts from world literature to their own writing practice.
- Craft compelling personal narratives that connect individual experience to larger cultural and political contexts.
- Engage in revision as a deliberate and creative part of the writing process.
- Develop and refine storytelling techniques to narrate their own lives with clarity, purpose, and voice.
Course Readings
- Exit West – Mohsin Hamid (2017)
- Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders – Shahram Khosravi (2010)
- Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees – Olivier Kugler (2018)
- Any other supplemental readings are posted on Moodle.
- Учитель: Eman Al-Drous