Course Description

International and Comparative Studies 260F/G Cultural Difference, Cultural Similarity: A Case-Study of Humour

This course explores the usage and understanding of humour across cultures, assessing differences and similarities. It informs and sensitises students to how people in other places or times locate their experience through the filter of humour. Texts, primarily literary, but also graphic and audiovisual, will be explored.

Prerequisite: International and Comparative Studies 020E or permission of the Instructor.

3 hours, half course

(Huron)

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