MLD-356M: Public Narrative: Conflict, Collaboration, and Coherence

Semester: Fall Mod2

Credit: 0.5

Syllabus: Click here for syllabus

Faculty: Marshall Ganz

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 10/20
Meet Day T/Th 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM STARR
Review

Description

In this module we draw on literary, religious, philosophical, psychological, sociological, and political sources to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of public narrative.  What about narrative conflict? Can we “negotiate” narratives — value-based identities — as we do “interests?” Under what conditions can narrative dissonance be constructive, creative, and generative and under what conditions can it be destructive, narrowing, anddivisive? How do we manage the multiple overlapping narratives in which we play a part? Building on an understanding of how to tell their own public narrative, students will explore these and other questions in this dynamic new way of looking at collaboration and conflict — among individuals, communities, and nations. Prerequisite: Students must have taken MLD-355M.

Also offered by the Divinity School as HDS-2894.