Course Catalog - 2010-2011

     

ENGL 280 - MATERIAL CULTURE & MUSEUMS

Long Title: MATERIAL CULTURE AND MUSEUMS: RESEARCH AND WRITING ABOUT OBJECTS IN CONTEXT
Department: English
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Introduces strategies for research and writing about two categories of objects, "caged" and "free range." "Caged" objects are professionally managed in institutional collections or defined in literary works. "Free range" objects are in use by individuals in a community. Weekly interpretive sketches, three essays, three field trips to museum events.
Course URL: http:////english.rice.edu