Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

ENGL 280 - MUSEUMS AND CULTURE

Long Title: MATERIAL CULTURE: OBJECTS CAGED AND FREE RANGE
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://www.english.rice.edu