FOLK 6020 | America’s Folk Crafts |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Traditional hand skills of North American folk-culture regions including folk arts, crafts, architecture, food-ways, and pre-industrial technology, their Old World sources, and display in folk museums. |
FOLK 6050 | Global Ceramic Traditions |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Cross-listed with FOLK 4050. An international survey of folk pottery from prehistory to today, combining material folklore study, art history, and cultural geography to explore continuity and change in hand-based technologies, societal uses and meanings of traditional clay products and aesthetics and creativity in each group’s tradition. |
FOLK 6100 | British Folk Culture |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | The oral, musical, customary, and material traditions of England, Scotland, and Wales, including their regional variation and reflection of major historical currents. |
FOLK 6110 | Irish Folk Culture |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Traditional culture from the Celts to the present, including saga literature, farmsteads and houses, singing, storytelling, and supernatural beliefs. |
FOLK 8200 | Folklore |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Survey of folklore genres (including ballads, tales, customs, and arts) and of aspects of folklore study (including literary uses of folklore) with illustrations drawn largely from the South. |