Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Certificate in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Students on Summer 2023, Fall 2023, or Spring 2024 requirements FOLKETACRT
Requirements
The certificate requires at least 21 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory or Survey Course. One (1) course:
- FOLK-E 151 Global Pop Music
- 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-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 AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
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.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
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.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
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.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
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.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
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.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Advanced Topics in the Humanities or Social Sciences. Two (2) courses:
- Any FOLK-E 200–299
- Any FOLK-F 200–299
- Advanced Topics in Culture Area. Two (2) courses:
- Any FOLK-E 300–399
- Any FOLK-F 300–399 except FOLK-F 399
- Electives. One (1) additional course:
- Any FOLK-[x] 100–499 except FOLK-F 399; FOLK-F 401; FOLK-F 499
- Methods and Theories. One (1) course:
- FOLK-F 401
- Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Certificate GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Certificate 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 certificate.
- Certificate Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Certificate Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Certificate Area Courses
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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
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward certificate requirements:
- The following courses cannot be applied toward academic program requirements:
- NULL:
- FOLK-F 399
- FOLK-F 499
Exceptions to and substitutions for certificate 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.