The document provides an overview of narrative theory and how it can be applied to analyze media texts. It discusses various narrative theorists like Propp, Barthes, Todorov, Levi-Strauss, and postmodern approaches. Key concepts from each theorist are outlined such as narrative codes, character archetypes, equilibrium-disequilibrium-resolution structure, and binary oppositions. Students are instructed to apply these narrative theories to analyze their coursework products and evaluate how useful each perspective is.