Electric Storyteller
Our students bring fresh ideas to bear on everything from age-old questions of meaning to late-breaking news. In the College of Arts and Sciences, you’ll learn to express your thoughts clearly and effectively.
Description of the video:
[Rhythmic clapping.]
[Energetic rock music plays.]
[Voices shout: "Hey!"]
>> Koji Chavez: "We live in a world where you're surrounded by other people."
>> Michael McGerr: "You learn how to tell a story."
[Printer noise.]
>> Michael McGerr: "That may not seem like much, but stories are what drive the world. Stories are what drive our interest in the world."
[Voices shout: "Hey!"]
>> Koji Chavez: "That's how we communicate; that's how we generate ideas; that's how we get jobs; that's how we get promoted. That's how we do everything in life is through our interactions with other people."
[Voices shout: "Hey!" Music ends.]
[Kitchen timer sounds.]
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