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2009-2010 University Catalog

ENGL 481 - Folk Arts and Folk Artists

Credits: 3
Examines the traditional arts of everyday life, such as festive foods, mementos and other objects of memory, textile arts, pottery, carving in wood and stone, roadside shrines, and more. Explores the folk aesthetics of group-based creativity through the lenses of biography, history, literature, and folklore studies. Considers traditional objects as narratives in material form. Examples drawn from multiple cultures as well as traditions in students’ own lives.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week
3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week
0