Focalization Course
Master the art of focalization to enhance literary analysis and teaching. This course equips humanities educators and scholars with tools to dissect narrative perspectives, detect unreliable narrators, and map point-of-view shifts, transforming detailed readings into compelling, evidence-based interpretations that sharpen insight into storytelling techniques.

4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course provides an in-depth introduction to narrative focalization, covering internal, external, and omniscient perspectives, free indirect discourse, and interior monologue. Participants will engage in close reading exercises, annotation techniques, and mapping of information access, while learning to identify unreliable narration cues, apply precise academic terminology, create comparative teaching activities, and develop structured lesson plans and teaching portfolios for effective text analysis.
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Develop skills
- Quickly identify and analyze focalization types including internal, external, and zero focalization.
- Spot unreliable narrators through linguistic signals, narrative gaps, and biased perspectives.
- Map dynamic shifts in narrative perspective to track knowledge and withheld information.
- Create engaging 60-minute lesson plans on focalization with practical prompts and activities.
- Utilize precise terminology and ethical citations in focalization-based research projects.
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