Actantial Model Course
Master the actantial model to decode and design powerful stories. Learn clear role mapping, close reading, and practical plotting tools tailored for humanities professionals who need sharper narrative analysis and stronger, more focused story ideas. This course equips you with skills to identify key actants like subject, object, sender, receiver, helpers, and opponents, turning analysis into concise narrative explanations ready for submission.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This practical Actantial Model Course teaches you to identify subject, object, sender, receiver, helpers, and opponents, then craft clear 2–3 paragraph narrative explanations. You'll practise close reading, manage ambiguous roles, create visual and bullet-point models, link structure to theme, and develop original story ideas with concise, organised, submission-ready writing.
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Develop skills
- Map actantial roles: Quickly assign subject, object, helper, and opponent.
- Analyse short stories: Use actantial grids to expose theme and ideology fast.
- Design story ideas: Build tight plots with balanced helpers, opponents, and stakes.
- Handle ambiguity: Resolve shifting roles and unreliable narrators with confidence.
- Turn theory into writing: Convert actantial models into clear scenes and outlines.
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