Storytelling
Course (flyer)
(August 22— October 17,
2008)
After completing this course, students will be able to describe
different genres of oral traditions and the roles they serve in cultures
worldwide. These oral traditions come from cultures with written and
unwritten languages. Students will be able to describe the process
and product in the transmission of oral traditions. They will be able
to use various field methods for collecting oral traditions and will
have practice in crafting stories.
"When Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo
people inNorthern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted.Unfortunately,
nobody had told the Dowayo." (from the cover of The
Innocent Anthropologist: Notes
from a Mud Hut by NigeI Barley.
1983).
RATIONALE
- Storytelling is a universal
activity. The greatest stories ever told were
about the ministry of Jesus. These stories have been told orally
in thousands of languages and are based
on the written records in the Bible. This course
promotes an oral approach.
- Storytelling
is a form of oral communication. It is represented in songs,
drama and dance, and is told by bards (poet-singers), oral historians
and grass-roots storytellers. This course investigates each of these
contributions to storytelling.
- Story
telling is a natural precursor
to literacy and translation. It enables the hearer and the
teller to render the story by means of their own mental picture of
what happened. This course enables students to focus on the value
of storytelling in a language project.
- Storytelling is a
skill used in all occupations. It includes management,
medicine, missiology and other disciplines. This course broadens
the scope of storytelling and models the power and attractiveness
of storytelling.
For more information contact:
GIAL (Telephone (972) 708-7340)
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, Texas 75236
OR
Dr. Karl Franklin (email: karl_franklin@sil.org)
SIL International (Telephone (972) 708-7400
x2373)
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, Texas 75236
