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2014-2015 University Catalog

ENGH 415 - Folk Arts and Folk Artists

Credits: 3 (NR)
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.

Equivalent to ENGL 481 (2010-2011 Catalog)

Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.

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