What makes for a powerful story? Why are we, as human beings, drawn to stories? Discover the answers with this two-course set. In The Power of Storytelling with Ari Shapiro, join the award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered for a look at what goes into creative an unforgettable story—and how you can tell such stories yourself. And in Storytelling and the Human Condition, examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our implicit desire to understand our lives and our place in the world.
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In The Power of Storytelling with Ari Shapiro, the award-winning host of NPR’s All Things Considered reveals the storytelling secrets he’s learned during his career, from finding a good story and choosing the right characters to conducting interviews and even delivering a story effectively out loud. These 12 lessons are a toolkit for storytellers at all levels of experience.
In the 12 lectures of Storytelling and the Human Condition, you will examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our drive to understand who we are and what our place is in the world around us. You will go on a globe-spanning, time-jumping, media-traversing tour of the human narrative tradition. Your guide is author, journalist, and storyteller Alexandra Hudson, founder of Civic Renaissance, a community for lifelong learners, which she invites you to join at Civic-Renaissance.com. She will illuminate how stories shape our lives throughout history and across cultures in ways that—much like human nature itself—are a complicated mix of the “good,” the “bad,” and everything in between.
Professor David Roochnik is your host and moderator for Western civilization’s greatest debate. What is reality? What are ethics, justice, and happiness? How shall we best live our lives? More than 2,000 years later, the issues the ancient Greeks pondered continue to challenge, fascinate, and instruct us.
What makes you different from other people? And what makes you—sometimes—the same? Designed as a fascinating, accessible scientific inquiry, the 24 lectures of Why You Are Who You Are: Investigations into Human Personality, will have you thinking about your personality in a way that leaves you enriched and better informed about what makes you, you.
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