INQ-110 | Finding Ourselves in Folktales

Full Title: Cultural Perspective: Finding Ourselves in Folktales

Topic Description:

Who are the “folk” in folktales? How are these “folk” constructed by their cultures? Can we, as modern people, relate to any of the issues facing these “folks” from long ago? How has culture constructed us? How has it impacted the decisions we make in our daily lives? As we read folktales from a variety of cultures and critical materials that help students engage the primary texts, we will use class discussion, writing assignments, and research projects to meet our course goals: 1) to use the knowledge of cultural perspective gained through analysis of select folktales to evaluate how our own lives are impacted by culture; 2) to assess how our cultural perspectives may impact our daily decision-making.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2009