MCCCD Program Description

Major: 6254N Catalog Year: 2024-2025 Effective Term: 2020 Fall Last Admit Term: 9999 Award: AC Total Credits: 6 CIP Code: 05.0209	Primary College: South Mountain Community College Initiating College: South Mountain Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: Shared Program Availability: EM SM Field of Interest: Culture and Society Instructional Council: Storytelling (05) GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: Upon completion of this program, students may pursue a career as 27-3043.05 Poets, Lyricists, and Creative Writers 27-2099.00 Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other

Description: The Academic Certificate (AC) in Traditional and Fact-Based Storytelling is designed to provide students with an understanding of universal themes and basic practices, which are the foundation for storytelling. The program provides interactive storytelling training, which will enhance the skills of persons in areas such as education, the performing arts, community advocacy, workforce and business entrepreneurship, mental health, the ministry, and interpretive settings such as museums and parks. This program will also aid students interested in enhancing interpersonal relations skills and in using stories in family and community settings.

Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate the skills of oral storytelling to construct and deliver stories. (HIS/STO279, STO295) 2. Develop cultural awareness and a sense of community through oral storytelling. (HIS/STO279, STO295) 3. Employ the ethical protocols and practices of storytelling as they pertain to awareness of self and others. (HIS/STO279, STO295) 4. Utilize digital media to produce, present, promote, and preserve the stories and voices of storytellers. (HIS/STO279, STO295) 5. Maintain a repertoire of stories that reflect the individual`s storytelling style and that can be adapted for a variety of situations or purposes. (HIS/STO279, STO295)

Program Notes
This program is not eligible for Title IV Federal Financial Aid. Students must earn a grade of C or better in all courses within the program. This program replaces: AC/6217N Interdisciplinary Storytelling

Admission Criteria
None.

Required Courses

HIS/STO279 Creating and Telling Fact-Based Historical Stories 3
STO295 Traditional Storytelling Around the World 3

Credits: 6

Restricted Electives
	Credits: 0

General Electives
	Credits:

+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites.
++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected.

MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: February 25, 2020

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.