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The Power of Story in Cultivating Emotional Competence
Maria Hadjipolycarpou, Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies
In many Classics courses, emotional engagement plays a secondary role in literary text-based analysis. Instructors of literature shy away from engaging in emotional levels of understanding because teaching this way is sometimes at odds with traditional methods of scholarship. In Maria’s course, “Storytelling and Transformation: Narratives of Self from Homer to Arianna Huffington” (CLCV 120), students study epic and tragic works of classical Greek literature, as well as philosophical ideas of self and soul by modern writers and philosophers. Her students explore the journey of transmission and transformation through the medium of stories and storytelling, including what makes a story worthy and why stories have shaped human civilization from past to present. Through a series of hands-on activities that include digital tools for collaboration and close reading, students cultivate emotional literacy as well as empathy. One of their assignments is to write a pitch for The Moth and record a true story to perform in front of an audience.
Maria is passionate about the power of stories to foster emotional competence. “Storytellers are the greatest reformers, transformers, and transmitters of human civilization,” she says. “Students deserve not only to experience literature cognitively and intellectually, but to engage with these texts intuitively and emotionally.”
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We Want to Hear From You! Faculty Input Session - Wednesday, November 11
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How do I Replicate an Engaging Faculty Presentation Online?
I recently attended a College-level faculty event where the guest speaker, Michael Wesch, used some pretty amazing graphic effects for his Zoom presentation, and all while he interacted with them! I think this would help with engagement in my online lectures. Is it possible to do this for my course?
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