PUBPOL 646 | Strategic Storytelling: Narratives for Development

Semester: Spring 2025
Meeting Times: TuThu 1:25-2:40 PM
Modes of Inquiry: Cross-Cultural Inquiry (CCI)
Ethical Inquiry (EI)
Areas of Knowledge: Arts Literature and Performances (ALP)
Social Sciences (SS)
Course Description:

With a broad array of storytelling mediums, we ask how ‘sticky’ stories told about poverty or development strategically can add to our ability properly to understand poverty and to conduct appropriate development policies more effectively. What are the benefits and limitations of considering public policy problems by entering through the arts of storytelling and of storylistening? How do stories help readers/listeners become alive to ethical and cultural considerations previously unseen or unheard? How might these stories enable storytellers to tell stories on their own terms, opening up new and critically important terrains for public policy? Soft power strategy. Guest practitioners.