NAS
422
Native American Humor: Laughter as Medicine
2 cr.
(2-0-0)
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: Junior standing, or instructor permission.
- Bulletin Year: 2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
Through films, poems, lyrics, plays, political cartoons, memoirs, short stories, and emerging media, this course examines why humor is considered medicine and serves as a vital component of cultural expression to Indigenous peoples of North America. Native American humor naturally plays around a number of other important topics which you will re-encounter: topics such as images, logos, and stereotypes, along with opinions about gender and its roles, contemporary popular culture, and traditional oral narratives.