Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Minor in Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Students on Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023 requirements FOLKMIN

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Methods and Theories. One (1) course:
- FOLK-F 401
Electives.
- 300–399 Level Electives. One (1) course:
  - Any FOLK-E 300–399
  - Any FOLK-F 300–399
  - Any FOLK-X 300–399
- 300–499 Level Electives. One (1) additional course:
  - Any FOLK-E 300–399
  - Any FOLK-E 400–499
  - Any FOLK-F 300–399
  - Any FOLK-F 400–499 except FOLK-F 401
  - Any FOLK-X 300–399
  - Any FOLK-X 400–499
- Free Electives. Two (2) additional courses:
  - FOLK-E 112 Black Music of Two Worlds
  - FOLK-E 114 Music, Identity and Social Life: Performance and Community Action
  - FOLK-E 151 Global Pop Music
  - FOLK-E 250 Ethnomusicology and the Humanities
  - FOLK-E 251 Ethnomusicology and the Social Sciences
  - FOLK-E 290 Music and Violence
  - FOLK-E 295 Survey of Hip Hop
  - FOLK-E 297 Popular Music of Black America
  - FOLK-E 302 Music in African Life
  - FOLK-E 303 Zimbabwean Mbira Performance Ensemble
  - FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
  - FOLK-E 388 Motown
  - FOLK-E 394 Survey of African American Music
  - FOLK-E 407 Applied Ethnomusicology and Folklore: Media Productions
  - FOLK-E 496 African American Religious Music
  - FOLK-E 522 The Study of Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-E 523 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-E 525 Readings in Ethnography
  - FOLK-E 529 Musical Cultures as Systems of Meaning
  - FOLK-E 533 Applied Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-E 536 Applied Ethnomusicology and Folklore: Media Productions
  - FOLK-E 601 Chinese Film and Music
  - FOLK-E 607 Music in African Life
  - FOLK-E 608 Music in African Film
  - FOLK-E 609 Zimbabwean Mbira Performance Ensemble
  - FOLK-E 639 Music and Nationalism in Latin America
  - FOLK-E 688 Motown
  - FOLK-E 694 Issues in African American Music
  - FOLK-E 697 African-American Popular Music
  - FOLK-E 698 African American Religious Music
  - FOLK-E 699 Theoretical Perspectives in African American Music
  - FOLK-E 714 Paradigms of Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-E 720 Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human
  - FOLK-E 740 History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 101 Introduction to Folklore
  - FOLK-F 111 World Music and Culture
  - FOLK-F 121 World Arts and Cultures
  - FOLK-F 131 Folklore in the United States
  - FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
  - FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
  - FOLK-F 210 Myth, Legend, and Popular Science
  - FOLK-F 211 World Folk Music Traditions 1
  - FOLK-F 215 Folklore, Health, and Illness
  - FOLK-F 220 Introduction to American Folklore
  - FOLK-F 225 Forms of Commemoration
  - FOLK-F 230 Music in Social Movements
  - FOLK-F 235 Personal Narratives: A Course in Folklore and Literature
  - FOLK-F 240 Introduction to Jewish Folklore
  - FOLK-F 251 Folklore Methods and Theories
  - FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
  - FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
  - FOLK-F 255 Forms of Commemoration
  - FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
  - FOLK-F 275 Indigenous Worldviews
  - FOLK-F 290 Myth, Ritual, Symbol
  - FOLK-F 301 African Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 305 Asian Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 307 Middle Eastern Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 308 Middle Eastern and Arab Mythology
  - FOLK-F 310 American Urban and Ethnic Folklore
  - FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 314 Irish Folklore
  - FOLK-F 315 Latin American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
  - FOLK-F 320 Pacific Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 323 Middle Eastern Folklore
  - FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields
  - FOLK-F 341 Chicano Folklore
  - FOLK-F 345 African Folklore
  - FOLK-F 350 Folklore and Women
  - FOLK-F 351 North American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 352 Native American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 353 Native American Film and Video
  - FOLK-F 354 African American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 356 Chicano Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 357 American Jewish Popular Music
  - FOLK-F 358 Jewish Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 359 Exploring Jewish Identity Today
  - FOLK-F 360 Indiana Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 361 Traditional Arts Indiana: Documenting Indiana Traditions
  - FOLK-F 362 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Musich
  - FOLK-F 363 Women's Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 364 Children's Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 365 American Regional Cultures
  - FOLK-F 367 Folklore of the South
  - FOLK-F 368 Folklore and Science of Childhood
  - FOLK-F 369 Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts
  - FOLK-F 370 Memory, Art, and Aging: Life Stories and the Expressive Lives of Elders
  - FOLK-F 377 Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East
  - FOLK-F 386 Latin American Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 391 Indiana Folklife
  - FOLK-F 394 Afro-American Folklore
  - FOLK-F 398 Children's Folklore
  - FOLK-F 399 Readings for Honors
  - FOLK-F 401 Methods and Theories
  - FOLK-F 404 Topics in Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 405 Studying Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 406 Museum Practice in Folklore Studies
  - FOLK-F 410 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 420 Forms of Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 425 Folklore in Its Literary Relationships
  - FOLK-F 430 Folklore and Related Disciplines
  - FOLK-F 440 Folklife and Material Culture Studies
  - FOLK-F 450 Music in Religious Thought and Experience
  - FOLK-F 455 The Legend
  - FOLK-F 465 Ballads and Folksongs
  - FOLK-F 480 Transcription and Analysis of Traditional Music
  - FOLK-F 492 Traditional Musical Instruments
  - FOLK-F 494 Transcription and Analysis of Traditional Music
  - FOLK-F 497 Advanced Seminar
  - FOLK-F 499 Honors Thesis
  - FOLK-F 501 Colloquy in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 510 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 512 Survey of Folklore
  - FOLK-F 514 Paradigms of Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 516 Folklore Theory in Practice
  - FOLK-F 517 History of Folklore Study
  - FOLK-F 521 Phonorecording, Phono-Archives and Archiving Principles
  - FOLK-F 523 Fieldwork in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 525 Readings in Ethnography
  - FOLK-F 527 Folk Poetry and Folksong
  - FOLK-F 528 Advanced Fieldwork
  - FOLK-F 531 World Music Survey
  - FOLK-F 532 Public Practice in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 533 Applied Folklore
  - FOLK-F 535 Ritual and Festival
  - FOLK-F 536 Ethnography of Belief
  - FOLK-F 537 Folklore and the Ethnography of Health and Illness
  - FOLK-F 540 Material Culture and Folklife
  - FOLK-F 541 Material Culture Studies: Theories and Methods
  - FOLK-F 545 Folk Narrative
  - FOLK-F 546 Personal Experience Narrative
  - FOLK-F 592 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 594 Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Transcription and Analysis
  - FOLK-F 600 Asian Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 604 Seminar on Research Topics in Folklore
  - FOLK-F 609 African and Afro-American Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 617 Middle East Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 618 History of Folklore Studies
  - FOLK-F 625 North American Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 634 Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
  - FOLK-F 635 European Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 636 Irish Folklore
  - FOLK-F 638 Latin American Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 640 Native American Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 650 South American Indian Folklore
  - FOLK-F 651 Pacific Folklore/Folk Music
  - FOLK-F 677 Popular Culture & Politics in the Middle East
  - FOLK-F 712 Body Art: Dress and Adornment
  - FOLK-F 713 Food: Art and Identity
  - FOLK-F 715 English and Scottish Popular Ballads
  - FOLK-F 720 Folklife and Material Culture 1
  - FOLK-F 721 Folklife and Material Culture II
  - FOLK-F 722 Colloquium in Theoretical Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 725 Sound Studies
  - FOLK-F 727 Activism, Engagement, & Critical Ethnography
  - FOLK-F 730 Museums and Material Culture
  - FOLK-F 731 Curatorship
  - FOLK-F 732 Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property
  - FOLK-F 734 Folklore and Literature
  - FOLK-F 736 Folklore and Language
  - FOLK-F 738 Psychological Issues in Folklore
  - FOLK-F 740 History of Ideas in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 750 Performance Studies
  - FOLK-F 755 Folklore, Culture and Society
  - FOLK-F 786 The Folktale and Allied Forms
  - FOLK-F 792 Traditional Musical Instruments
  - FOLK-F 794 Transcription and Analysis in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 800 Research in Folklore & Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 801 Teaching Practice and Course Design in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 802 Traditional Arts Indiana
  - FOLK-F 803 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 804 Special Topics in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 805 Laboratory in Public Folklore
  - FOLK-F 806 Museum Practicum in Folklore Studies
  - FOLK-F 810 Field Work
  - FOLK-F 822 Colloquium in Theoretical Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-F 832 Seminar in Folklore and Culture
  - FOLK-F 840 Research Seminar
  - FOLK-F 850 Thesis/Project/Dissertation
  - FOLK-G 599 Thesis Research
  - FOLK-G 901 Advanced Research
  - FOLK-OS 100 Undistributed Overseas Study
  - FOLK-OS 200 Undistributed Overseas Study
  - FOLK-OS 300 Undistributed Overseas Study
  - FOLK-OS 400 Undistributed Overseas Study
  - FOLK-OS 500 Undistributed Overseas Study
  - FOLK-UN 001 Folk Undistributed-Unknown Lvl
  - FOLK-UN 099 Folk Undistributed-Below 100 Lvl
  - FOLK-UN 100 Folk Undistributed-100 Level
  - FOLK-UN 195 Folk Undistributed - 195
  - FOLK-UN 196 Folk Undistributed - 196
  - FOLK-UN 197 Folk Undistributed - 197
  - FOLK-UN 198 Folk Undistributed - 198
  - FOLK-UN 199 Folk Undistributed - 199
  - FOLK-UN 200 Folk Undistributed-200 Level
  - FOLK-UN 295 Folk Undistributed - 295
  - FOLK-UN 296 Folk Undistributed - 296
  - FOLK-UN 297 Folk Undistributed - 297
  - FOLK-UN 298 Folk Undistributed - 298
  - FOLK-UN 299 Folk Undistributed - 299
  - FOLK-UN 300 Folk Undistributed-300 Level
  - FOLK-UN 395 Folk Undistributed - 395
  - FOLK-UN 396 Folk Undistributed - 396
  - FOLK-UN 397 Folk Undistributed - 397
  - FOLK-UN 398 Folk Undistributed - 398
  - FOLK-UN 399 Folk Undistributed - 399
  - FOLK-UN 400 Folk Undistributed-400 Level
  - FOLK-UN 495 Folk Undistributed - 495
  - FOLK-UN 496 Folk Undistributed - 496
  - FOLK-UN 497 Folk Undistributed - 497
  - FOLK-UN 498 Folk Undistributed - 498
  - FOLK-UN 499 Folk Undistributed - 499
  - FOLK-UN 500 Folk Undistributed-500 Level
  - FOLK-UN 595 Folk Undistributed - 595
  - FOLK-UN 596 Folk Undistributed - 596
  - FOLK-UN 597 Folk Undistributed - 597
  - FOLK-UN 598 Folk Undistributed - 598
  - FOLK-UN 599 Folk Undistributed - 599
  - FOLK-UN 600 Folk Undistributed-600 Level
  - FOLK-UN 695 Folk Undistributed - 695
  - FOLK-UN 696 Folk Undistributed - 696
  - FOLK-UN 697 Folk Undistributed - 697
  - FOLK-UN 698 Folk Undistributed - 698
  - FOLK-UN 699 Folk Undistributed - 699
  - FOLK-UN 700 Folk Undistributed-700 Level
  - FOLK-UN 795 Folk Undistributed - 795
  - FOLK-UN 796 Folk Undistributed - 796
  - FOLK-UN 797 Folk Undistributed - 797
  - FOLK-UN 798 Folk Undistributed - 798
  - FOLK-UN 799 Folk Undistributed - 799
  - FOLK-UN 800 Folk Undistributed-800 Level
  - FOLK-UN 895 Folk Undistributed - 895
  - FOLK-UN 896 Folk Undistributed - 896
  - FOLK-UN 897 Folk Undistributed - 897
  - FOLK-UN 898 Folk Undistributed - 898
  - FOLK-UN 899 Folk Undistributed - 899
  - FOLK-UN 900 Folk Undistributed-900 Level
  - FOLK-UN 995 Folk Undistributed - 995
  - FOLK-UN 996 Folk Undistributed - 996
  - FOLK-UN 997 Folk Undistributed - 997
  - FOLK-UN 998 Folk Undistributed - 998
  - FOLK-UN 999 Folk Undistributed - 999
  - FOLK-X 402 Traditional Arts Indiana
  - FOLK-X 476 Museum Practicum in Folklore
  - FOLK-X 477 Field Experience in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  - FOLK-X 490 Individual Study in Folklore
  FOLK-E 112 Black Music of Two Worlds
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An exploration of the relationships among musics of West and Central African people and their descendants in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Emphasis placed on the conceptual and aesthetic continuities between musical expression in Old and New World contexts--a uniformity which exists because of shared African cultural ancestry.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 112, FOLK-E 112, or FOLK-F 112.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 114 Music, Identity and Social Life: Performance and Community Action
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration of the dynamics of music and identity, in particular, the role of music and other expressive activities in larger processes of community building, civic responsibility, participatory action, and social sustainability.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 151 Global Pop Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides a broad survey of pop music from around the world. Structured thematically, will compare and contrast particular popular musics and explore what the study of these musics can reveal about the people who create and use them.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE GCCcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
  FOLK-E 250 Ethnomusicology and the Humanities
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides basic theoretical approaches to the study of ethnomusicology, emphasizing its relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as cultural, literary, and religious studies, history and philosophy.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 251 Ethnomusicology and the Social Sciences
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Provides basic theoretical approaches to the study of ethnomusicology, emphasizing its relationship to other social science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  FOLK-E 290 Music and Violence
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Exploration of the dynamics of music and violence, focusing on the role of music in generating and sustaining societal conflict. Consideration of the various ways in which music has been a tool for transforming conflict and ameliorating trauma.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 295 Survey of Hip Hop
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines rap music and hip hop culture as artistic and sociocultural phenomena with emphasis on historical, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Topics include the coexistence of various hip hop styles, their appropriation by the music industry, and controversies resulting from the exploitation of hip hop as a commodity for national and global consumption.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 295, FOLK-E 295, or FOLK-F 295.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
  FOLK-E 297 Popular Music of Black America
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A chronological survey of Black popular music from 1945-2000: rhythm and blues, soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and their derivative forms. Emphasis placed on the context for evolution and the contributions of African Americans to the development of a multi-billion dollar music industry.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 297, AAAD-A 397, FOLK-E 297, or FOLK-F 397.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  FOLK-E 302 Music in African Life
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of how Africans create, perform, think about, and use music in their lives. Topics include traditional and popular musical styles in relationship to social and historical contexts, as well as translocal, transnational, and global cultural and musical exchanges in which Africans participate.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 303 Zimbabwean Mbira Performance Ensemble
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to Zimbabwean music through a combination of applied music making and lecture/discussions. Students learn to play the Zimbabwean Mbira and various percussion instruments.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 345 Hip Hop Music and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Junior or senior standing
  Description
  Examines rap music as artistic and sociological phenomena with emphasis on its historical and political contexts.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 345, AAAD-A 489, FOLK-E 345, or FOLK-F 389.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
  FOLK-E 388 Motown
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of the development of Motown Record Corporation, Detroit Era (1959-1972). Through lecture, discussion, guided listening, and visual experiences, the course studies the musical works, creative processes, business practices, historical events, media, technology, and sociocultural factors that contributed to Motown\'s identity as a unique artistic and cultural phenomenon.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 388, AAAD-A 389 or FOLK-E 388.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 394 Survey of African American Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A chronological survey of sacred and secular African American musical traditions in North America from the African past to the present. Emphasis placed on context for evolution, musical processes and aesthetics, interrelationships among genres and musical change, issues of gender, and music as resistance.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 394, FOLK-E 394, or MUS-M 394.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 407 Applied Ethnomusicology and Folklore: Media Productions
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines the application of ethnomusicology and folklore training in media productions for cultural institutions and commercial industries. A focus on the role of humanists as researchers, consultants, music supervisors, and filmmakers for public media institutions (i.e., PBS, BBC, NPR, PRI), multimedia production companies, and commercial film industries.
  FOLK-E 496 African American Religious Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An in-depth investigation of Negro spirituals and gospel music, with some treatment of the traditions of lining-out and shape note singing. Examination of genres will address and integrate both the musical and the socio-cultural perspectives.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 496 or FOLK-E 496.
  Spring 2025CASE AHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
  FOLK-E 522 The Study of Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Introduction to discipline: history, scope, definitions of ethnomusicology; key issues, points of debate; ethnomusicologists and their work; resources for research, teaching, and other activities in which ethnomusicologists engage. Background for more specialized courses in fieldwork, theory, intellectual history, and world areas.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 523 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Theories and methods of conducting field research, including research design, methods of data gathering, research ethics, and presen-tation of research results.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 525 Readings in Ethnography
  
  Description
  This graduate seminar is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of the intellectual history, major theoretical orientations, and analytical techniques that have shaped the practice of ethnographic research. Throughout the semester we will explore how ethnomusicologists have sought to document, analyze, interpret, and present their research.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 529 Musical Cultures as Systems of Meaning
  
  Description
  This course explores a range of ideologies, processes, and patterns that define musical cultures across the globe. Focus on the concept of music as culture by examining historical and contemporary issues in cross-cultural perspective.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 533 Applied Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Investigates histories and trajectories of applied ethnomusicology, while preparing students to conceptualize and develop their own work in the sub-field. Will map definitions of applied, advocacy, activist, engaged, and public sector work and trace connections to other disciplines. Discussions focus on research approaches, tools, and methodologies within applied ethnomusicology circles.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 536 Applied Ethnomusicology and Folklore: Media Productions
  
  Description
  Examines the application of ethnomusicology and folklore training in media productions for cultural institutions and commercial industries. A focus on the role of humanists as researchers, consultants, music supervisors, and filmmakers for public media institutions (i.e. PBS, BBC, NPR, PRI), multimedia production companies, and commercial film industries.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 601 Chinese Film and Music
  
  Description
  Introduces students to Chinese film, music, and film and music industries. Focus on ethnomusicological approaches to the study of film, methods for reading film music, and learning to read Chinese films and listen to their soundtracks in relation to their representations of Chinese culture.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 607 Music in African Life
  
  Description
  Study of how Africans create, perform, think about, and use music in their lives. Topics include traditional and popular musical styles in relationship to social and historical contexts, as well as translocal, transnational, and global cultural and musical exchanges in which Africans participate.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 608 Music in African Film
  
  Description
  Music is an integral part of African films, whether they are made by Hollywood or by African directors. The course will explore how various film musics are conceived and how these musics may be interpreted by audiences, composers, and filmmakers.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 609 Zimbabwean Mbira Performance Ensemble
  
  Description
  This course introduces students to Zimbabwean music through a combination of applied music making and lecture/discussions. Students learn to play the Zimbabwean Mbira and various percussion instruments.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 639 Music and Nationalism in Latin America
  
  Description
  Explores relationships between changing concepts of nation and national identity, local, social, and political processes, and artists whose performances and creations have been seen as national symbols. Theories of nationalism, explored through case studies from various periods and nations of Latin America.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 688 Motown
  
  Description
  This course surveys the development of Motown Record Corporation, Detroit Era (1959-1972). Through lecture, discussion, guided listening and visual experiences the course studies the musical works, creative processes, business practices, historical events, media, technology, and sociocultural factors that contributed to Motown's identity as a unique artistic and cultural phenomenon.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 694 Issues in African American Music
  
  Description
  A chronological overview of the primary genres of African American music, from slavery to present. Emphasis placed on understanding the separate identities of individual genres, and examining those processes by which they are interrelated and are cultural objects for appropriation.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 697 African-American Popular Music
  
  Description
  An examination of African American popular music from 1945-2000. Organized topically, this course will examine the production of this tradition as a black cultural product and its transformation into a mass marketed commodity for mainstream and global consumption.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 698 African American Religious Music
  
  Description
  Using both a socio-cultural and a historical perspective, this course explores the major forms of African American religious music indigenous to the United States (Negro sprituals and gospel music), as well as those Euro-American musical expressions that have emerged as integral parts of the African American worship experience.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 699 Theoretical Perspectives in African American Music
  
  Description
  A critique of the theoretical perspectives of African American music rendered in seminal publications by scholars of various disciplines employed from the 19th century to the present that have shaped underlying assumptions in narratives on this tradition.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 714 Paradigms of Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Examines the current paradigms for conducting ethnomusicological research. Emphasis on theoretical frameworks and specific examples of application within the disciplines.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 720 Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human
  
  Description
  This seminar will bring together theoretical approaches such as actor-network theory, cyborg theory, critical animal studies, sound studies, science and technology studies, ecomusicology, traditional ecological knowledges, and inhumanism/Black feminism, questioning how each might critically intervene in the discipline of ethnomusicology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-E 740 History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Examination of the intellectual history of ethnomusicology, emphasizing the social, political, and ideological forces that have influenced the development of the field. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 101 Introduction to Folklore
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A view of the main forms and varieties of folklore and folk expression in tales, ballads, gestures, beliefs, games, proverbs, riddles, and traditional arts and crafts. The role of folklore in the life of human beings.
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  FOLK-F 111 World Music and Culture
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to ethnomusicology and the cross-cultural study of music and culture. Explores music, performance, and ideas from around the world. Analyzes the role music plays in human life, including a variety of social, political, and personal contexts. Music training is not required.
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  FOLK-F 121 World Arts and Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveying the customary arts of the world’s peoples offers a means of comprehending the human condition today. This course explores how culture is made manifest, especially in such media as landscapes, architecture, material culture, and expressive performances. A sampling of world arts, it also provides an introduction to folklife studies.
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  FOLK-F 131 Folklore in the United States
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Folklore and traditional expressive behavior in the United States. Traditional arts, ideas, and practices of folk groups in the United States, including ethnic, occupational, regional, and religious groups.
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  FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Urban legends are modern adaptations of older stories told in daily discourse, depicted in television, film and novels. Explores the defining features of urban legends: their cultural history, themes and role as cultural commentary; their popularity on the internet, in the news, and in popular culture.
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  FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Acquaints students with a few of the current systems of folk belief diffused, reinforced, and, in some cases, originated by film and video, both in the form of the documentary and the feature-length drama. Aids students in the process of thinking and writing critically about the content, meaning, and social function of these modern forms of information systems.
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  FOLK-F 210 Myth, Legend, and Popular Science
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Compares three genres—myths, legends, and popular science—and asks about the ways in which they converge and diverge, and about the features of each that might lead us to believe their claims.
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  FOLK-F 211 World Folk Music Traditions 1
  
  Description
  General survey of the world's folk and traditional music with reference to its cultural context. Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 215 Folklore, Health, and Illness
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on concepts of health and illness in traditional cultures and societies. Addresses a variety of cross-cultural situations from the East and the West; special emphasis on Middle Eastern Arab traditions (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish). A student may conduct research on a traditional community in any part of the world.
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  FOLK-F 220 Introduction to American Folklore
  
  Description
  The folk cultures of the United States. The art and traditional philosophies of Indians, European-Americans, Afro-Americans, and occupational groups. The adaptation and interrelation of distinct American cultures.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 225 Forms of Commemoration
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines forms of commemoration in order to define their essential features and to describe how they operate in society. Highlights folk commemoration, those informal modes of remembrance that are a part of community tradition.
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  FOLK-F 230 Music in Social Movements
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines music in sociopolitical movements, ranging from political and cultural revolutions to government-sponsored campaigns, environmental, and social activism. Explores concepts about the transformative power of music and of organized groups of people, analyzing the practices of movements aimed at changing perception and behavior.
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  FOLK-F 235 Personal Narratives: A Course in Folklore and Literature
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines how writers and oral storytellers use personal experience narratives. Though personal narratives are not traditional, they can be studied using the concepts and methods developed to study both folklore and literature.
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  FOLK-F 240 Introduction to Jewish Folklore
  
  Description
  Study of Jewish experience throughout the ages, as reflected in the folklore of biblical, talmudic, and midrashic materials, and in medieval and contemporary settings, including America. Analysis of folkloric expression in religion, literature, humor, music and art, by utilization of historical, psychological, functional, and structural perspectives.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 251 Folklore Methods and Theories
  
  Description
  An examination of central theories, methods, and approaches in the field of folklore and ethnomusicology. Includes the history of the folklore or ethnomusicological theories as well as contemporary developments. Classification of genres and their functions in society. Methods of collecting, analyzing, and indexing materials.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 255 Forms of Commemoration
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. Focuses on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. Emphasis on the ethnography of belief systems.
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  FOLK-F 275 Indigenous Worldviews
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  A survey of some basic aspects of indigenous lifeways, this course introduces comparative cultural analysis, providing a foundational course for those interested in thinking about how others think and how we think about otherness. Students will examine mythology, ritual, health, art, and philosophy within the context of colonialism and globalization.
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  FOLK-F 290 Myth, Ritual, Symbol
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Regardless of culture or religion, the triad of myth, ritual, and symbol encompass the ways all humans come to understand their societies and themselves. This class offers a cross-cultural, humanistic, and interdisciplinary approach to learning how we believe and know through stories, ceremonies, and art.
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  FOLK-F 301 African Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Folklore, folklife, or folk music as aspects of African culture. The functions of folklore forms and performances within traditional societies and emergent nations.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 305 Asian Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Forms and functions of folklore, folklife, or folk music in the traditional and developing societies of Asia. Folklore as a reflection of culture. Relationship between folklore forms and belief systems in Asia.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once with a different topic.
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  FOLK-F 307 Middle Eastern Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Folk traditions of the Arabic, Persian- and Turkish-speaking peoples, including folk festivals, rituals, folk dances, music, theatre, and verbal behaviors; the influence of Islam.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 308 Middle Eastern and Arab Mythology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines "mythological" belief systems and related manifestations that exist as quasi-formal religious ideologies in Middle Eastern communities. Emphasis is placed on Arab groups and Islam-based ideologies. (Other groups may be selected for the student's research. Arabic language may be selected on individual basis for reading/research.)
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 310 American Urban and Ethnic Folklore
  
  Description
  Processes by which folklore has arisen in predominantly urban environment and adaptation of rural folklore as a manifestation of the urban experience.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Expressions of regional cultures and emerging nations of Europe. Social functions of folklore and folk music in rural and urban communities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 314 Irish Folklore
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces the popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and especially verbal art and oral traditions of Ireland, north and south. Topics include folk religion, supernatural legend and belief, holiday customs, observances surrounding the life cycle and death, historical legend and collective memory, political murals and parades.
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  FOLK-F 315 Latin American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Cultural and functional analysis of traditional folklore or music genres developed in the cultures of Latin America. Emphasis on origin and the diffusion of folklore, folklife, and folk music as well as the peoples.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 316 Caribbean Arts and Cultures
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores traditional forms of verbal expression, music, dance, and visual art in Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone countries in the Caribbean. Examines art forms in relation to specific historical and social contexts and broader processes of colonialism, social stratification, creolization, urbanization, nationalism, and decolonization in the region.
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  FOLK-F 320 Pacific Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Folklore, folklife, music, and dance of Australia, New Zealand, and native Oceanic societies. Topics include the cultures of aboriginal and settler populations, retention and adaptation of aboriginal materials, and the emergence of “native” traditions among the settler and immigrant groups.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 323 Middle Eastern Folklore
  
  Description
  Folk traditions of the Persian, Arabic, and Turkic speaking peoples; survival of pagan culture in rituals, dance, folk music, folk festivals, folk theater, and verbal behavior; the influence of Islam; the great folklore sources of the Thousand and One Nights, the Persian epic Shahname, the Anatolian rituals.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 330 Folk Culture and Related Fields
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Studies of folk culture in relationship to other fields. Focuses on such interdisciplinary topics as folk culture in relationship to language, literature, psychology, history, religion, sociology, musicology, or anthropology.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 341 Chicano Folklore
  
  Description
  The folklore of Mexican-Americans as a reflection of the historical experience and cultural identity of this people within the United States. Mexican heritage, Anglo and Black influence, and the blending of these elements into a unique cultural entity. Chicano folk speech, conversational genres, folk music and song, belief system, and rites and festivals.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 345 African Folklore
  
  Description
  Folklore as an aspect of African culture. Types of African folklore: prose narratives, proverbs, riddles emergent nations. The influence of folklore on contemporary African literatures. The use of folklore in reconstructing African History.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 350 Folklore and Women
  
  Description
  Introduces the field of folklore by focusing on women's folklore in terms of life cycle and role, by exploring the range of women's occupations and related traditional knowledge, and by looking at women as traditional verbal and visual artists.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 351 North American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Folk and popular traditions of the United States and Canada. Topics include the social base of American folklore, prominent genres of American folklore, folklife, and folk music, national or regional character, and American folk style.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 352 Native American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Comparative examination of various verbal, musical, and dance forms of Native American societies. Consideration of cultural systems of Native Americans within the context of general American culture.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 353 Native American Film and Video
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduction to the study of Native American images and representations. Focuses on ethnographic, documentary, animated, and feature films from 1920 to the present. Surveying the themes of assimilation, contemporary politics, and religiosity, students will watch films, read articles, and respond to both mediums critically.
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  FOLK-F 354 African American Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  African American culture in the United States viewed in terms of history and social change. Folklore, folk music, and oral history as means of illuminating black culture and history.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 356 Chicano Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The folk traditions of Mexican Americans as a reflection of the historical experience and cultural identity of this people within the United States. Mexican heritage, Anglo and black influences, and the blending of these elements into a unique cultural entity.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 357 American Jewish Popular Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  How does a small minority population create its own "popular music"? This course explores the many ways American Jews have addressed the idea of popular music over the last century by examining how American Jewish communities have adapted popular music styles, built up music stars, and created music labels and production companies.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FOLK-F 357 or JSTU-J 357.
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  FOLK-F 358 Jewish Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Study of Jewish experience throughout the ages as reflected in the folklore of biblical, talmudic, and midrashic materials and in medieval and contemporary settings, including America. Analysis of folkloric expression in religion, literature, humor, music, folklife, and art.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 359 Exploring Jewish Identity Today
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  When people describe what they believe, do, create, or experience as \"Jewish,\" what do they mean? Using multiple perspectives and multiple forms of media, we will explore how different communities--from orthodox Jews to evangelical Christians--incorporate senses of Judaism into their cultural, religious, racial, ethnic, and artistic identities.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of FOLK-F 359 or JSTU-J 359.
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  FOLK-F 360 Indiana Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Survey of folklore, folklife, or folk music of Indiana. Students are encouraged to do fieldwork in the state.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 361 Traditional Arts Indiana: Documenting Indiana Traditions
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Through hands-on activities, students will explore Indiana\'s cultural diversity and learn cultural documentation and presentation techniques, as they identify, document, and present the traditional arts. Topics vary. Focuses each year on specific folk groups, community, or genre of Indiana folklore.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  
  FOLK-F 362 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Musich
  
  Description
  Selections of typical folklore expressions from European regional cultures. The social functions of folklore in rural and urban communities. Current theories of leading European folklore scholars.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 363 Women's Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Focuses on women\'s folk traditions in terms of life cycle and role and explores the range of women\'s occupations and related traditional knowledge. Looks at women as traditional verbal, visual, or musical artists.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 364 Children's Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The traditional rhymes, riddles, stories, games, folklife, or music associated with "the culture of childhood." The role these forms play in peer-group activity and in the social and cognitive development of the child.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated once when topics vary.
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  FOLK-F 365 American Regional Cultures
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces the folklore, music, public celebrations, and foodways of South Louisiana, the Texas-Mexico Border, and Appalachia. Explores how these regions have been represented by insiders and outsiders, how local traditions interact with national and global frameworks, and how America has been defined through comparison/contrast with these regional cultures.
  FOLK-F 367 Folklore of the South
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Surveys folkloric traditions practiced in the southern states, including folk speech, festival celebrations, foodways, folk music, and folk religion. Considered together, the folklore from disparate geographic and cultural spaces of the broadly defined South present a complex picture of Dixie that forces us to question our Southern assumptions.
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  FOLK-F 368 Folklore and Science of Childhood
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  From the games of the playground to the secret, scary play that happens behind closed doors, this course examines the full range of children's folklore alongside relevant scientific descriptions of childhood, including readings on developmental psychology, physiology, and perception.
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  FOLK-F 369 Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  How do people make sense of their worlds and experiences? The study of folklore provides a unique answer through the study of narrative, symbolic expression, and discourse analysis. This course brings folk beliefs into conversation with scientific method, and examines the different ways in which people come to view or understand the uncanny.
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  FOLK-F 370 Memory, Art, and Aging: Life Stories and the Expressive Lives of Elders
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the ways that elders recall, organize, revise, and share their life stories. From older poets and artists, to senior storytellers and musicians, we study the interplay between memory, life review, and creative practice in order to understand the dynamic systems of remembering and forgetting devised by elders.
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  FOLK-F 377 Popular Culture and Politics in the Middle East
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Through ethnographic case studies, this course examines the dynamics of popular culture and mass media in the Middle East, including the Arabic speaking nations of Israel, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa.
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  FOLK-F 386 Latin American Folk Music
  
  Description
  Cultural and functional analysis of traditional musical genres developed in creole and mestizo cultures of Latin America. Emphasis on origin, diffusion, and acculturation of musical styles and social behavior.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 391 Indiana Folklife
  
  Description
  Historical and cultural influences on the development of folk tradition in Indiana. The role of the Indian, the pioneer, the backwoodsman, and the immigrant. Traditional festivals, beliefs, legends, and customs. The role of tradition in an urbanizing society.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 394 Afro-American Folklore
  
  Description
  Afro-American culture in the United States viewed in terms of history (antebellum to present) and social change (rural to urban). Use of oral traditions and life histories to explore aspects of Black culture and history.
  Additional information
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  FOLK-F 398 Children's Folklore
  
  Description
  The traditional rhymes, riddles, stories, games, and related folklore forms associated with "the culture of childhood"; their role in peer-group activity and in the social and cognitive development of the child.
  Additional information
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  FOLK-F 399 Readings for Honors
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor and honors advisor
  Description
  Independent but guided readings in preparation for the honors thesis in Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
  FOLK-F 401 Methods and Theories
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces students to the main methods and theories in the two fields composing Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Explores both the common ground linking these fields and some key areas of difference, delving into basic aspects of method and theory as practiced by folklorists and ethnomusicologists.
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  FOLK-F 404 Topics in Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores in depth a particular topic in the study of folklore, folklife, or music. Courses of an unusual, integrative, or experimental nature.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 405 Studying Ethnomusicology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces the field of ethnomusicology through reading, writing, and ethnomusicological research. Emphasizes the study of music in social contexts, and the study of society from a musical perspective. Designed for students interested in the study of music in human life as well as in cross-cultural approaches to the study of music and culture.
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  FOLK-F 406 Museum Practice in Folklore Studies
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  An introduction to curatorial practice in museums, with an emphasis on museums of ethnography and cultural history. With campus collections serving as laboratories for course activities, students will work with objects of material culture and engage in a range of activities central to professional practice in museums and other collections.
  Repeatability
  Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 405 or FOLK-F 406.
  FOLK-F 410 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This course explores the use of multimedia technology in five basic areas of ethnographic activity: field research, laboratory research (transcription and analysis), preservation, presentation, and publication. Knowledge of technological concepts and skill development in the use of various technologies are pursued through a project-based approach which emphasizes learning by doing. Evaluation is based on demonstration of competencies through successful completion of projects. The class is structured to include both lecture and lab components.
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  FOLK-F 420 Forms of Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examination of selected forms of folklore, folk music, craft, or performance, with attention given to content, form, and function of the selected forms as well as the variety of theories and methodologies employed in their study.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 425 Folklore in Its Literary Relationships
  
  Description
  Ways in which folk themes have been carried into professional literature, development of literary forms in relation to folk patterns, and interrelationships among folktales and literary narratives.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 430 Folklore and Related Disciplines
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Advanced studies of folklore and/or ethnomusicology in relationship to other disciplines. Focuses on such interdisciplinary topics as folklore and literature, folklore and psychology, folklore and history, folklore and religion, or folklore, culture, and society.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 440 Folklife and Material Culture Studies
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  The perspective of folklife studies. Material culture presented within the context of folklife, with attention to the role of folk museums, folklife research methods, and the history of folklife research.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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  FOLK-F 450 Music in Religious Thought and Experience
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Explores the roles of music in select religious traditions of the world. Comparative analysis of relationships between music and ritual, religious music and popular culture, sacred music and mass media, music and religious identity, and music and trance. Focus on major world religious traditions, local traditions, and combinations thereof.
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  FOLK-F 455 The Legend
  
  Description
  The legend as a separate form of traditional narrative. Relation to other forms, such as myths, memorates, and Marchen, and to folk belief, custom, and ritual. Function, style, historicity, classification, and use in literature and art.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 465 Ballads and Folksongs
  
  Description
  Ballads and folk songs of the Western world; their origins, diffusion, relationship to literature, and function. Special attention to the British-American tradition.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 480 Transcription and Analysis of Traditional Music
  
  Description
  Survey of theories and methods applied in transcription, analysis, and classification. Application of methods to selected recordings.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  FOLK-F 492 Traditional Musical Instruments
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Classification, distribution, and diffusion of folk and traditional musical instruments. Construction and performance practices. Relation to cultural and physical environment. Demonstration with instruments in the collection of the Mathers Museum.
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  FOLK-F 494 Transcription and Analysis of Traditional Music
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of instructor
  Description
  Survey of theories and methods applied in transcription, analysis, and classification of traditional music. Application of methods to selected recordings.
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  FOLK-F 497 Advanced Seminar
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  This is the final integrating course in the department, required of all majors and open to qualified students in other departments, with the instructor’s approval. Topics of individual research will vary.
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  FOLK-F 499 Honors Thesis
  
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  Consent of program honors committee
  Description
  Guided research culminating in an honors thesis under the direction of a faculty member and reviewed in oral examination by a faculty committee.
  
  FOLK-F 501 Colloquy in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Introduces students to the content, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives, and intellectual histories of folklore and ethnomusicology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 510 Multimedia in Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Explores the use of multimedia theology in five basic areas of ethnographic activity: field research, laboratory research (transcription and analysis), preservation, presentation, and publication. Knowledge of technological concepts and skill development in the use of various technologies are pursued through a project-based approach, which emphasizes learning by doing.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 512 Survey of Folklore
  
  Description
  Content and scope of folk belief and tradition; various genres (tale, legend, myth, ballad) and approaches to folklore. Folklore of both literate and nonliterate people.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 514 Paradigms of Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Examination of current paradigms for study of ethnomusicological problems. Emphasis on theoretical frameworks and specific examples of application. Topics inlude structural-functionalism, structrualism, phenomenological sociology, semiotics, and transformational-generative models.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 516 Folklore Theory in Practice
  
  Description
  An introduction to scholarly practice, developing an integrated idea of folklore as a topic of study as a way to conduct research.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 517 History of Folklore Study
  
  Description
  Graduate introduction to conceptual foundations in folklore, such as social base of folklore, tradition, folklore and culture history, folklore as projection, genre, function, structure, text, and context, through a historical survey of approaches to folklore topics.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 521 Phonorecording, Phono-Archives and Archiving Principles
  
  Description
  History, use, methods and principles of phonorecords and machines, field collecting, storage and preservation, cataloging and classification.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 523 Fieldwork in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Theories and methods of conducting field research, including research design, methods of data gathering, research ethics, and presentation of research results.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 525 Readings in Ethnography
  
  Description
  Historical survey of main styles of ethnographic research, with emphasis on three types of theoretical considerations: 1) relationship between ethnographic research and the changing academic, political cultural, and artistic contexts in which it is situated; 2) ethnographers as individuals whose specific backgrounds and aspirations influence their work; 3) close attention to the methods employed by specific ethnographers.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 527 Folk Poetry and Folksong
  
  Description
  Examination of written and/or performed folk poetry, ritual, political, domestic or occupational verse, blues or popular song; scholarly perspectives associated with these forms.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 528 Advanced Fieldwork
  
  Description
  While F523 offers a comprehensive survey of the complex and multi-faceted fieldwork enterprise, this course chooses one element of fieldwork and focuses on it as a theme for an entire semester. This course also offers advanced graduate students additional guided experience conducting fieldwork in a workshop-like setting.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 531 World Music Survey
  
  Description
  Comparative and analytical survey of selected musical traditions of world cultural areas.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 532 Public Practice in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Explores the breadth of professional practice in Folklore and Ethnomusicology outside of college and university settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of conceptual knowledge central to publicly engaged scholarship irrespective of the particular contexts in which scholars might be employed.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 533 Applied Folklore
  
  Description
  Prepares students to work as mediators between vernacular and institutional discourses and agendas; apply folkloristic skills to social problems solving; trace the history of applied folklore; provide training in cultural mediation, rapid ethnography, needs analysis, other applied skills; survey work of folklorists in important applied areas including law, medicine, education.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 535 Ritual and Festival
  
  Description
  Traditional rituals and festivals included symbolic forms of communication and a range of performance units: drama, religious expression, music, sports, clown. Interpretive models permit cross cultural examination of these phenomena in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia, etc. though study focuses only on a few events in context.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 536 Ethnography of Belief
  
  Description
  Explores approaches to the ethnography of systems of supernatural belief and will look closely at the resulting descriptions. Belief systems will be considered in terms of their descriptive methodologies, internal logic and methods of acquiring and evaluating evidence, and their means of transmitting explanations.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 537 Folklore and the Ethnography of Health and Illness
  
  Description
  Will investigate the field of folklore and health systems from an ethnographic and phenomenological perspective focusing on cross-cultural issues in health care including: lay health belief, biomedical models; negotiation and trans-cultural health care; systems theory; contrasting definitions of health, illness, reportable symptoms and incapacity; notion of disease processes and aetiology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 540 Material Culture and Folklife
  
  Description
  Material culture presented within the context of folklife, including folk architecture, folk crafts, folk art, traditional foodways, folk museums, folklife research methods, and the history of folklife research.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 541 Material Culture Studies: Theories and Methods
  
  Description
  From a simple piece of string to a sprawling city, the category of "material culture" encompasses the vast array of products and outcomes arising from human interactions with their environments. This course introduces both the concept of material culture and a range of theories and methods used in its study.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 545 Folk Narrative
  
  Description
  Examination of myths, folktales, legends, jokes, fables, anecdotes, personal narratives, or other forms of folk narrative. Attention given to the content, form, and functions of the narratives as well as the variety of theories and methodologies employed in their study.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 546 Personal Experience Narrative
  
  Description
  Examines the form, structure, context, performance and nature of the personal experience narrative and related genres such as life history, memorate and autobiography. Particular attention will be placed on issues of tellability, narrative entitlement and textual analysis.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 592 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Examination of the particular techniques and strategies of the ethnomusicologist. Relation of field techniques to theoretical orientation, field situation, and the intellectual history of the field.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 594 Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Transcription and Analysis
  
  Description
  Problems in transcription, analysis and classification of folk and traditional music. Historical survey of development of methodology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 600 Asian Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Folk religion, material culture, social customs, oral literature and folk music of Asian societies. Relationship between political movements and the use of folklore scholarship. Transformations of traditions in modern contexts.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 604 Seminar on Research Topics in Folklore
  
  Description
  Topics will be selected on areas of folklore not covered in depth in existing courses. Content and instructors will vary.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 609 African and Afro-American Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Folklore, oral prose and poetry, and music of African societies from the pre-colonial to the modern nation period. The perpetuation of African traditions and the creation of new folklore forms among Afro-Americans in the United States.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 617 Middle East Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Intensive comparative studies of selected genres including epics, oral narratives, folk drama, ritual and festival, riddles, proverbs and folk music. Emphasis on analysis of genres in their social and cultural contexts.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 618 History of Folklore Studies
  
  Description
  Development of folklore as a scientific and humanistic discipline. Consideration of major 19th and 20th century approaches to folklore, with analysis of recent trends in theoretical and applied research.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 625 North American Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Folk and popular traditions of the United States and Canada. Topics include the social base of America Folklore, prominent genres of American folklore and folk music, national or regional character, and American folk style.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 634 Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
  
  Description
  Introduces the history, methods, and issues of ethnographic study among Jewish populations, focusing on the United States and Israel. Through close readings of major works, this class will explore how research in this complex topic has used ethnography to investigate and negotiate memory, religious life, politics, ethnicity, and identity.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 635 European Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Forms of folklore and folk music in Europe; historical and contemporary European scholarship in folklore and ethnomusicology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 636 Irish Folklore
  
  Description
  This course introduces the popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and especially verbal art and oral traditions of Ireland, north and south. Topics include folk religion, supernatural legend and belief, holiday customs, observances surrounding the life cycle and death, historical legend and collective memory, political murals and parades.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 638 Latin American Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  In-depth treatment of traditional expressive forms (musical, verbal, kinetic, festive, etc.) in the various populations of Latin America, with emphasis in the historical evolution of these forms and their contribution to the articulation of contemporary Latin American identities.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 640 Native American Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Comparative examination of various verbal, musical and dance forms of Native American societies in North and South America. Examination of contributions of folklore and ethnomusicological scholarship to Native American studies.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 650 South American Indian Folklore
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 651 Pacific Folklore/Folk Music
  
  Description
  Pacific folklore/folk music. Folklore, folklife, music, and dance of Australia, New Zealand, and native Oceanic societies. Topics include the cultures of aboriginal and settler populations, retention and adaptation of European traditions, perpetuation and adaptation of aboriginal materials, and the emergence of "native" traditions among the settler and immigrant groups.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 677 Popular Culture & Politics in the Middle East
  
  Description
  Through ethnographic case studies this course examines the dynamics of popular culture and mass media in the Middle East, including the Arabic speaking nations, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 712 Body Art: Dress and Adornment
  
  Description
  This seminar analyzes the different ways in which human beings throughout the world shape, dress, ornament, and decorate their bodies, focusing on the meaningful communication of these artistic forms. Class topics include tattoo, scarification, face painting, makeup, henna, hair, jewelry, and dress -- daily attire, costume, folk dress, uniforms.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 713 Food: Art and Identity
  
  Description
  This seminar centers on the topic of food -- the production, preparation, and consumption -- applying a material culture model to the study of food. While food is an expression of cultural identities, it is also a powerful vehicle for the expression of individual identities, preferences, and aesthetics.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 715 English and Scottish Popular Ballads
  
  Description
  Student investigation of principal problems met in ballad scholarship. Special attention to textual relationships, dissemination, and unique qualities of genre.
  Additional information
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  FOLK-F 720 Folklife and Material Culture 1
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-F 721 Folklife and Material Culture II
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-F 722 Colloquium in Theoretical Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Intensive examination of social scientific theories and an assessment of their relevance to folklore/ethnomusicology scholarship.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 725 Sound Studies
  
  Description
  This seminar-style course considers recent literature on situated listening practices, the relationships between the senses, and the ways that sound informs identity categories such as race, gender, and disability. Includes in-class soundwalking and a final recording project located in the Bloomington area.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 727 Activism, Engagement, & Critical Ethnography
  
  Description
  This graduate seminar is an in-depth investigation into the field of critical ethnography. We will explore the theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of qualitative research, seeking a better understanding of how ethnographic approaches may be mobilized for policy change, the creation of emancipatory knowledge, and the pursuit of social justice.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 730 Museums and Material Culture
  
  Description
  Analyzes the complex relationship between human beings and the material world they inhabit and create to better comprehend the institution of the museum. An understanding of material culture helps us view how makers, users and viewers relate to objects in homes, commercial establishments and eventually, in museums.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 731 Curatorship
  
  Description
  The course presents basic skills for research and professional practice in social science and humanities museums. In addition to curatorial skills, the course explores how theoretical, ethical, and methodological problems are addressed in day-to-day museum work. Taught in campus museums, the course includes hands-on activities, seminar discussion, and collections research.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 732 Cultural Heritage and Cultural Property
  
  Description
  Drawing on methods and theories in folklore studies and allied fields (ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology), this graduate seminar examines cultural heritage and cultural property practices and contests through particular cases considered ethnographically, wide-spread phenomena viewed comparatively, and key concepts engaged theoretically. Illustrative themes include appropriation, tourism, repatriation, traditional knowledge, and copyright.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 734 Folklore and Literature
  
  Description
  The study of folklore forms and themes as they articulate with literary forms. Emphasis on understanding folklore concepts and theories for literary interpretation, and on the problems posed by literature that contribute to the interpretation of folklore.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 736 Folklore and Language
  
  Description
  Linguistic or linguistically-informed approaches to speech play and verbal art that are especially relevant to the concerns of folklorists.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 738 Psychological Issues in Folklore
  
  Description
  Psychological principles in early folklore scholarship; principles of learning applied to traditions; social learning; attitudes; performance and retention; systemic qualities; cypernectics; "material" and "kinetic" culture; folkloric behavior in mental health and morbidity; unrecognized ties to psychological theories; uses of folklore to educators and psychologists.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 740 History of Ideas in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Examination of the intellectual history of folklore and ethnomusicology, emphasizing the social, political and ideological forces which have influenced the development of the field. Required of Ph.D. students in Ethnosumicology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 750 Performance Studies
  
  Description
  Examination of performance-centered theory and analysis in folklore, ethnomusicology, and adjacent fields.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 755 Folklore, Culture and Society
  
  Description
  Relationship of folklore, culture, and social organization. Beliefs, values and social relations in the folklore of various societies. Special topics include gender, children, and ethnicity.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 786 The Folktale and Allied Forms
  
  Description
  Traditional oral and written tales. Dissemination of oral tales of Europe and Asia; evaluation of theories concerning oral tales; problems of type and motif classification; techniques for studying them. Great literary collections. Exampla, jest books, and fabliaux.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 792 Traditional Musical Instruments
  
  Description
  Classification, distribution and diffusion of folk and traditional musical instruments. Construction and performance practices. Relation to cultural and physical environment. Demonstration with instruments in the collection of the university museum.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 794 Transcription and Analysis in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Problems in transcription, analysis, and classification of music sound and texts. Required of M.A. and Ph.D. students in ethnomusicology.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 800 Research in Folklore & Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Individual research/readings course with faculty member.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 801 Teaching Practice and Course Design in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Prepares graduate students to teach in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Includes practical instruction in teaching methods, lesson preparation, teaching observation, course design, teaching portfolio preparation, and discussion of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the college curriculum. Required of all first time instructors and associate instructors.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 802 Traditional Arts Indiana
  
  Description
  Designed as a practicum for students to work collaboratively in applying the methods and approaches of folklore studies to public needs and public programs. Students will engage in a variety of outreach projects linking the university to the larger community in the areas of public arts and culture and cultural documentation.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 803 Practicum in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Individualized, supervised work in publicly oriented programs in folklore or ethnomusicology, such as public arts agencies, museums, historical commissions, and archives. Relevant readings and written report required.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 804 Special Topics in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Topics will be selected in areas of folklore or ethnomusicology not covered in depth in existing courses.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 805 Laboratory in Public Folklore
  
  Description
  Covers the research, design, creation, presentation, and assessment of public folklore projects. The learning laboratory provides students with experience in the public sector and critical perspectives on the theories, methods, and models employed in this field. The course includes weekly meetings to review readings and resources and discuss project progress.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 806 Museum Practicum in Folklore Studies
  
  Description
  Folklore studies-oriented practicum at a campus or community-based museum or systematic research collection. Participatory activities will be supplemented by reading and writing activities. May be repeated for up to 6 credit hours.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 810 Field Work
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 822 Colloquium in Theoretical Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Description
  Intensive examination of social scientific theories and an assessment of their relevance to folklore scholarship, the goal of the course being the development of a synthetic theory for folklore.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 832 Seminar in Folklore and Culture
  
  Description
  Relationship of folklore, culture. Beliefs, values, and more in the folklore of various literate and non-literate societies.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 840 Research Seminar
  
  Description
  Prepares students for their dissertation research by examining the research process and requiring from them a short draft and an expanded draft of a research proposal. This course is strongly recommended for students in the Ph.D. program.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-F 850 Thesis/Project/Dissertation
  
  Description
  Thesis/Project credit for M.A. students writing a thesis or completing a master's project and Ph.D. candidates.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-G 599 Thesis Research
  
  Description
  Master's students who have enrolled in 30 or more hours of graduate course work applicable to the degree and who have completed all other requirements of the degree except the thesis of final project of performance may enroll in G599. Requires section authorization.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-G 901 Advanced Research
  
  Description
  Available to graduate students who have completed all course requirements for their doctorates, have passed doctoral qualifying examinations, and have the requisite number of degree credit hours, this course provides the advanced research student with a forum for sharing ideas and problems under the supervision of a senior researcher.
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-OS 100 Undistributed Overseas Study
  
  Description
  UNDISTRIBUTED OVERSEAS STUDY
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-OS 200 Undistributed Overseas Study
  
  Description
  UNDISTRIBUTED OVERSEAS STUDY
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-OS 300 Undistributed Overseas Study
  
  Description
  UNDISTRIBUTED OVERSEAS STUDY
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-OS 400 Undistributed Overseas Study
  
  Description
  UNDISTRIBUTED OVERSEAS STUDY
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-OS 500 Undistributed Overseas Study
  
  Description
  UNDISTRIBUTED OVERSEAS STUDY
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 001 Folk Undistributed-Unknown Lvl
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 099 Folk Undistributed-Below 100 Lvl
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 100 Folk Undistributed-100 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 195 Folk Undistributed - 195
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 196 Folk Undistributed - 196
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 197 Folk Undistributed - 197
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 198 Folk Undistributed - 198
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 199 Folk Undistributed - 199
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 200 Folk Undistributed-200 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 295 Folk Undistributed - 295
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 296 Folk Undistributed - 296
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 297 Folk Undistributed - 297
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 298 Folk Undistributed - 298
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 299 Folk Undistributed - 299
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 300 Folk Undistributed-300 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 395 Folk Undistributed - 395
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 396 Folk Undistributed - 396
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 397 Folk Undistributed - 397
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 398 Folk Undistributed - 398
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 399 Folk Undistributed - 399
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 400 Folk Undistributed-400 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 495 Folk Undistributed - 495
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 496 Folk Undistributed - 496
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 497 Folk Undistributed - 497
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 498 Folk Undistributed - 498
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 499 Folk Undistributed - 499
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 500 Folk Undistributed-500 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 595 Folk Undistributed - 595
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 596 Folk Undistributed - 596
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 597 Folk Undistributed - 597
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 598 Folk Undistributed - 598
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 599 Folk Undistributed - 599
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 600 Folk Undistributed-600 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 695 Folk Undistributed - 695
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 696 Folk Undistributed - 696
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 697 Folk Undistributed - 697
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 698 Folk Undistributed - 698
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 699 Folk Undistributed - 699
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 700 Folk Undistributed-700 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 795 Folk Undistributed - 795
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 796 Folk Undistributed - 796
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 797 Folk Undistributed - 797
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 798 Folk Undistributed - 798
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 799 Folk Undistributed - 799
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 800 Folk Undistributed-800 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 895 Folk Undistributed - 895
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 896 Folk Undistributed - 896
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 897 Folk Undistributed - 897
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 898 Folk Undistributed - 898
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 899 Folk Undistributed - 899
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-UN 900 Folk Undistributed-900 Level
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 995 Folk Undistributed - 995
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 996 Folk Undistributed - 996
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 997 Folk Undistributed - 997
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 998 Folk Undistributed - 998
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
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  FOLK-UN 999 Folk Undistributed - 999
  
  Description
  None
  Additional information
  Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
  
  FOLK-X 402 Traditional Arts Indiana
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Prior arrangement with TAI director
  Description
  Designed as a practicum for students to work collaboratively in applying the methods and approaches of folklore studies to public needs and public programs. Students will engage in a variety of outreach projects linking the university to the larger community in the areas of public arts and culture and cultural documentation.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FOLK-F 402 and FOLK-X 402.
  
  FOLK-X 476 Museum Practicum in Folklore
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Prior arrangement with the museum professional supervising work
  Description
  Independent, supervised, folklore-oriented practicum at a campus or community museum or systematic research collection relevant to folklore, ethnography, or cultural history. Participatory activities will be supplemented by reading and writing activities.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with consent of the chair for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FOLK-F 408 and FOLK-X 476.
  
  FOLK-X 477 Field Experience in Folklore/Ethnomusicology
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Prior arrangement with faculty supervisor(s) and department course contract form
  Description
  Supervised work in public programs such as arts agencies, museums, historical commissions, and archives, including those housed at IU. Relevant readings and written report required.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated with consent of the chair for up to 6 credit hours in FOLK-F 403 and FOLK-X 477.
  
  FOLK-X 490 Individual Study in Folklore
  
  Credits
  1–3 credit hours
  Prerequisites
  Prior arrangement with faculty supervisor(s) and department course contract form
  Description
  May include fieldwork or library research components.
  Repeatability
  May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in FOLK-F 400 and FOLK-X 490.
Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
2. Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
4. Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Minor Area Courses

Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the FOLK subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

Bachelor of Arts in Folklore and Ethnomusicology (FOLKBA)
[Name unavailable] (FLKCRT-TMP)

Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.