ENGL 315 - Genre Studies: Life Writing

3 Credit(s)

It seems as though everyone has a life story to tell—from memoirs and social media to biopics and reality television, people feel compelled to tell the stories of their lives, and readers and audiences feel compelled to consume them. In this course, students study and analyze the artistic and cultural phenomenon of life writing with a focus on narrative technique. Texts are drawn from biography, autobiography, memoir, graphic narrative (“autography”), and film.
Satisfies a 300-level English elective for majors and minors or a humanities general education requirement for non-majors.