FIELD METHODS AND THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF FOLKLORE

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: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how to employ folkloristic fieldwork, archival methodologies, and community engagement in documenting and presenting local communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain key concepts of folklore studies in the context of wider public humanistic research. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create a final project demonstrating critical thinking, civic knowledge, and collaboration with coordinating communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand how to coordinate effectively with community organizations to undertake multidisciplinary arts and humanities grant-funded project planning with public programming goals such as festivals, exhibitions, publications, audio-visual productions, and digital archival collections. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand how to employ folkloristic fieldwork, archival methodologies, and community engagement in documenting and presenting local communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain key concepts of folklore studies in the context of wider public humanistic research. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Create a final project demonstrating critical thinking, civic knowledge, and collaboration with coordinating communities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand how to coordinate effectively with community organizations to undertake multidisciplinary arts and humanities grant-funded project planning with public programming goals such as festivals, exhibitions, publications, audio-visual productions, and digital archival collections. Audience: Graduate