THE IRISH TRADITION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and characterize major genres of folklore and folklife in the lives of Irish people inside and outside Ireland, past and present. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply folkloristic scholarship to specific ethnographic field data or archival materials through preparation of interpretative essays and other products. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and articulate the ways in which Irish history reflects or illustrates wider processes of colonization, disenfranchisement, migration, nation-building, and cultural diversity at work in other parts of the world today. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Engage with contemporary scholarship on Irish folklore and gain skills in academic research on the topic. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and characterize major genres of folklore and folklife in the lives of Irish people inside and outside Ireland, past and present. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply folkloristic scholarship to specific ethnographic field data or archival materials through preparation of interpretative essays and other products. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and articulate the ways in which Irish history reflects or illustrates wider processes of colonization, disenfranchisement, migration, nation-building, and cultural diversity at work in other parts of the world today. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Engage with contemporary scholarship on Irish folklore and gain skills in academic research on the topic. Audience: Graduate