ENGWRT 1360 - THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we'll explore the interview as an essential tool for nonfiction storytelling across forms. We'll consider approaches to interviewing practice from across subfields and genres or example, print journalism, memoir, oral history, radio, and documentary film, and consider how different techniques yield different materials suited to a range of purposes and stories. What makes a good question tick? How can you get through to a challenging or resistant subject? What habits of mind and body can help you transform an answer into an image or an opinion into a story? Through focused case studies and discussions, you'll learn from the craft of master interviewers across fields. And through hands-on exercises, you'll gain experience planning, conducting, and making meaning from real-world interviews in a range of styles and contexts. You'll come away with a toolkit of adaptable skills and techniques to continue your work in the world, wherever you choose to take it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0610 or ENGWRT 0710

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