Call Number | 00646 |
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Day & Time Location |
MW 8:40am-9:55am 113 MILSTEIN CEN |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Pass/Fail |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructor | Kristin Carter |
Type | SEMINAR |
Course Description | This interdisciplinary course explores the problem of representing American experience, one’s own or someone else’s, in the context of a nation-state’s fraught history of self-fashioning. What motivates a person to tell his or her life story, or to investigate someone else’s, and how are these stories bound by both authors and readers to narratives of citizenship, belonging, and/or exclusion? What motivates a writer to share what she shares, and what motivates an audience to demand what it demands from her? What claims about the exemplary or excessive qualities of the life story are made, or are emulated, by the life story’s readers? In addition to critical consideration of biography and memoir in traditional media, your work in this class will include examinations of the fake memoir and the digital overshare; you will also be invited to curate a branded footprint of your own, using tools of new media.
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Web Site | Vergil |
Department | First-Year Seminar Program @Barnard |
Enrollment | 16 students (16 max) as of 3:06PM Saturday, April 27, 2024 |
Subject | First-Year Seminar |
Number | BC1722 |
Section | 001 |
Division | Barnard College |
Campus | Barnard College |
Note | Barnard 1st Year Students Only |
Section key | 20233FYSB1722X001 |