SLIS 5441 - Advanced Storytelling

3 hours

Personal storytelling performance development: psycho-social development; voice and vocal dynamics; movement and gesture; facial expression, posture and performance dress; characterization; dialect and linguistic factors; musical effects; nonverbal behaviors. Training for public storytelling performances in libraries, schools, and community information settings. Advanced program planning, including development, implementation and evaluation of an individual or group storytelling concert. Advanced study of current trends and research in storytelling.

Prerequisite(s): SLIS 5440.