76-736 The Story of My Life: The Art of Personal Narrative

9–12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

We read newspapers for reports about what is happening in our world. But we also read fictionnovels and storiesthat tell us about our world, and alternative worlds. In this course well read classic American fiction such as Rip van Winkle and by Rebecca Harding Davis, Melville, and Faulkner, as well as more contemporary fiction by Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, and others, and consider about what they say about their culture and society. This course is based on the InsideOut Prison Exchange Program, and will be taught at SCI Somerset, a nearby prison. For more information about InsideOut, see httpswww.insideoutcenter.orgprospectivestudents.html The course will include both outside students from CMU, as well as inside students at SCI Somerset. The course focuses on active participation and discussion between students. The Somerset class runs from 230510 on Friday afternoons. CMU students will travel together by bus, leaving our campus at 1230 sharp and return by around 715 pm. To enroll, students in the course will submit a brief application and interview with faculty. The course is part of an exciting new initiative by CMU to bring education into Americas prisons.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027

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