CCM318

Intergenerational Communication is interactions between individuals from different age cohorts or age groups. Factors including age stereotypes, societal expectations, and individual backgrounds and habits can influence intergenerational communication in diverse cultural contexts. This course uses storytelling to connect students with older adults in Salem and area communities and within students' families and networks. The course is community-engaged learning and teaching. The course engages students in communicating with older adults based on mutual understanding, respect, support, and growth. Students and older adults will coauthor and co-create life stories through attentive conversations, engaged listening, writing, and creativity. With participants' permission, the class will contribute the life stories to a digital archive, publishing the stories in a chosen media genre, such as short stories, illustrations, and audio narratives, in digital storytelling.

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