Community Storytelling across Cultures: Individuals, Communities and their Voices (GL/SP/COMS 4608)

Course Code: GL/SP/COMS 4608

Course Date: July 14, 2026 to July 23, 2026

Course Instructor: Alejandro Zamora

Course Description

As part of the Summer Abroad Program in Costa Rica, this course explores the power of language, stories, and storytelling as tools for identity- and community-building across cultures. Students conduct narrative field work in the region and actively engage—often across languages–in storytelling through situated workshops and projects employing different formats and media. Combining theory, practice, and immersive activities in different places, natural environments, and communities, students gain first-hand experience in the act of telling/writing as an act of (self) knowledge production and its potential for building archives of memory, articulating communities, and fostering empathy. The course will be taught in English, but students majoring in Spanish will have to complete their assignments in Spanish to receive major credits.

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The course ran from 27 May – 05 Jun, 2025. The instructor was Dr. Alejandro Zamora from Glendon College.

This course ran from May 21 to 30, 2024 and was taught by Glendon College professor, Dr. Maria Constanza Guzman.

The course ran from May 1 to 10, 2023. The instructor was Dr. Alejandro Zamora from Glendon College.

The course ran from May 2 to 11, 2022. The instructor was Dr. Alejandro Zamora from Glendon College.

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