GWS 2400 - Women’s Folklore and Folklife

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020

Description: This course provides an exploration of folklore in everyday life, folk narrative, and other verbal genres, cultural forms, and manifestations of traditional expressive behaviors as they pertain to reinforcing and resisting gender norms and practices within diverse cultures. It offers a critical examination of how women creatively use folklore to affirm and subvert their roles within sexist, racist, classist, and heterosexist cultural systems.

Note: Credit will be granted for one prefix only: ANT or GWS.

General Studies: Arts and Humanities

Guaranteed Transfer: GT-AH1

Cross Listed Course(s): ANT 2400