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Course Credit:  3

In The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison writes, “Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.” The best kind of nonfiction is an act of empathy—for both the writer and the reader. By examining all the tools of nonfiction storytelling—character, voice, scene, structure—this course aims to unravel these empathic concerns.