Autobiography is the meeting place of memory and language. In this unit students consider how they might shape their experiences into stories. Students may write memoir, journals or the autobiographical essay in order to encode explorations of their own experiences in a form that connects with a wider readership. During workshops students consider the specific problems of autobiography including methods of structuring an account of the self in a manner that another person might find interesting, the ethics of disclosure, the status of objective truth and the writer's willingness and capacity to represent what we might think of as unembellished truth. Students are also required to read... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: any Level 2 English unit