GWS 2400Women's Folklore and Folklife

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Prerequisite(s): ENG 1010 OR ENG 1009 OR ENG 1020 OR ENG 1021 Crosslisted: ANT 2400 Students explore folklore in everyday life (including folk narrative and other verbal genres as well as customs, material culture and other manifestations of traditional expressive behavior) as it pertains to reinforcing and resisting gender identity and norms within diverse folk groups. Students focus on the centrality and pervasiveness of creativity in the human experience, developing a contextual approach to understanding aesthetic expression. Students critically examine both how women and people of diverse gender expressions appear in folklore and use folklore. Note: Credit will be granted for one prefix only: ANT or GWS.