Courses
Study and Practice Narrative Across Media and Genres
Every year, the Stanford Storytelling Project offers courses that help us understand how we can use stories to create personal growth and social change. All of our courses explore both story craft and process and help students develop creative confidence. Most of our courses fulfill undergraduate requirements, such as WAY-CE (Creative Expression), WAY-AII (Aesthetic and Interpretative Inquiry), or WAY-WR2 (Writing 2). Use our menu on the left to explore previous courses and check out this year's offering below.
Autumn 2025
Holistic College Student Development: Theory and Practices
This course explores and develops practices to support holistic, college student development. We will examine classic cognitive theories of intellectual and ethical development, moral development and reasoning, psychosocial development, and racial, ethnic, and religious identity development.
Fall 2025, Monday 1:30 - 4:20pm, 3 units
Instructors: anthony antonio, Jonah Willihnganz
Designing for Care: Building a Story Pharmacy
In this class, students will design and build a Story Pharmacy - a public, curated collection of stories that can help people meet specific challenges - from loneliness and self-doubt to anxiety and heartbreak. They will learn foundational principles of narrative medicine and design thinking and skills such as interviewing for story, data-documentation, and experience design. By application.
Fall 2025, Tuesday 12:00-1:20pm, 1 unit.
Instructors: Jonah Willihnganz, Megan Calfas, Deepak Ramola, Mariel Rosic
Oral Documentary Workshop
This workshop will lead students through the process of turning interviews, archival tape, and other recorded material into an accomplished audio documentary suited for public radio and major podcasts.
Fall 2025, Friday 10:30-11:20am, 1 unit.
Instructors: Jonah Willihnganz, Megan Calfas.
Spring 2026
Love: Art, Science, and Practice
Designed as a chance to take a deep dive into the nature of love, the course looks at its history, how science and art help us understand it, and how wisdom traditions help us practice it.
Spring 2026, Thursdays 12:00 - 2:50pm
Instructor: Jonah Willihnganz, Fulfills: WR2, WAYS-CE