NAS 239 - Indigenous Oral Traditions

3 Credits

Students in this course study a variety of traditional oral genres in Indigenous cultures, including myths, supernatural and historical legends, animal tales, personal anecdotes, jokes and humorous tales, and bawdy stories. The course focuses on how cultural information and shared values are encoded into and created through narrative structures, and how aspects of performance are a dialogue between performer and audience.
Course Fee.
General Education Discipline: Humanities or Human & Cultural Diversity