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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Storytelling for Social Change
University of Michigan
Learners watched video interviews with storytelling experts, viewed performances, and wrote their own story for social change. They learned how stories told from diverse perspectives contribute to understanding new perspectives about pertinent world issues. Also they learned how effective storytelling can be their tool for promoting social change.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Anita Gonzalez
Chair of Dance and Professor of Theater & Drama
University of Michigan
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss how professionals use stories to elicit social change.
- Introduce multiple perspectives into stories for social impact.
- Learn how to identify an audience, communicate a message, and develop a strong protagonist to deliver your message.
- Identify how empathy and belief systems affect storytellers and audience members.
- Use visual elements to enhance a storytelling project.
Syllabus
- Developing skills for using stories to deliver messages that affect audiences and drive change.
- Discussion of how building empathy and developing characters can offer multiple perspectives on complex problems.
- Explore how connecting with an audience through story can create new awareness and influence attitudinal shifts around a particular cause.
- View performances and interviews with storytelling experts to demonstrate how story crafting can develop empathy and deliver impact.
Issued on 17th September 2022
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