Current Course Offerings

Spring & Intersession 2013

St. John's Campus (Spring - May 6 - August 10, 2013)

Undergraduate

Spring

Course	Slot	Room	Instructor
Folklore 1000:01 Introduction to Folklore	03	ED4011	Dr. Thorne

Dr. Thorne's contact information:

Office: ED4039C, Telephone: 864-6211, Email: coryt2@mun.ca

Intersession

Course	Slot	Room	Instructor
Folklore 2100:01 Folklore Research Methods	04&05	ED3048	Dr. Thorne

Dr. Thorne's contact information:

Office: ED4039C, Telephone: 864-6211, Email: coryt2@mun.ca

St. John's Campus and Harlow Campus

Undergraduate

Course	Slot	Room	Instructor
Folklore 3713-097: A History of English Architecture I: Roman to Medieval*		SN2018	Dr. Pocius
Folklore 3714-097: A Historty of English Architecture II: Early Modern to Post-Modern*		SN2018	Dr. Pocius
Folklore 3900-097: Heritage Conservation*		SN2018	Dr. Sharpe
Folklore 3990-097: Making of the English Town*		SN2018	Dr. Sharpe

Dr. Pocius contact information:

Office: ED4034, Telephone: 864-8366, Email: gpocius@mun.ca

*These courses are also crosslisted with Geography/History/Archaeology for this one time only.

Graduate

Course	Slot	Room	Instructor
Folklore 6070-097: Issues in Folklore		SN2018	Dr. Pocius
Folklore 6420-097: Art and the Artifact		SN2018	Dr. Pocius

Fall 2013

Undergraduate

Course	Slot	Room	Instructor
Folk 1000-01 Introduction to Folklore	03	ED3034B	Dr. J. Gould
Folk 1000-02 Introduction to Folklore	07	ED1002	Dr. M. Lesiv
Folk 1000-03 Introduction to Folklore	05	ED4008	Dr. P. Smith
Folk 1000-04 Introduction to Folklore	18	ED1002	Dr. P. Hiscock
Folk 1000-56 Introduction to Folklore	32	ED4008	Dr. D. Tye
Folk 1000-081 Introduction to Folklore	DE	Distance	Dr. D. Tye
Folk 1000-082 Introduction to Folklore	DE	Distance	Ms. M. Jack
Folk 2100-001 Folklore Research Methods	03	ED1002	Dr. M. Lesiv
Folk 2300-001 Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore	05	ED2003	Dr. J. Pocius
Folk 2500-01 Oral Literature	04	ED4008	Dr. M. Lovelace
Folk 3360-01 Sex, Folklore and Power	04	ED1002	Dr. C. Thorne
Folk 3450-01 Language and Play	07	ED4011	Dr. P. Hiscock
Folk 3606-01 Supernatural Folklore	05	ED3034A	Dr. M. Lesiv
Folk 3612-01 Urban Legend	03	ED1014	Dr. P. Smith
Folk 3820-01 Folk Custom	19	ED4008	Dr. H. Everett
Folk 3850-01 Material Culture	18	ED3034A	Dr. D. Tye
Folk 4470-01 Spaces and Places	08	ED4036	Dr. C. Thorne

Cross-Listed Courses taught by other departments

Graduate ( Tentative )

Course	Time	Room	Instructor
Folk 6010-01 Survey of Folklore Genres	Mon&Wed 2:00-4:00 p.m.	ED4051	Dr.M. Lovelace
Folk 6020-01 Field and Research Methods		Field School, Sept 8-29,2013	Dr. J. Pocius
Folk 6030-01 Folklore Theories	Tu&Thurs 9:30-11:30 a.m.	ED4051	Dr. H. Everett
Folk 6210-01 Legend	Slot 63	ED4036	Dr. P.Smith
Folk 6740-01 Public sector Folklore	Slot: 61	ED4036	Dr. J. Gould
Folk 6770-01 The Global and the Local	Slot: 62	ED4051	Dr. C. Thorne
Folk 6790-01 Museums: Perspectives and Practices	Mon&Wed 9:00-11:00 a.m.	ED4036	Dr. J. Pocius

Course Descriptions:

6010: Survey of Folklore -

The course introduces students entering the M.A. program to the materials that have been, and are now, considered central to the discipline; these include, but are not limited to, folk literature: narrative, speech, song, drama; and folklife, including belief and custom, material culture.

6020: Research Methods -

This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to the research resources, tools and methods regulary employed in the area of Folklore. On the one hand, the course may examine what types of Library and Archive resources can be useful to the folklorist and, on the other hand, it may explore how folklorists in fieldwork situations should handle people, and how they can capture for posterity a record of the interviews that they have conducted and the events that they have observed.

6030: Approaches to Folklore -

Introduces students entering the M.A. program to the major past and present approaches to the study of folklore; it is also thereby a history of folkloristic thought. Interrelationships with other disciplines are also considered.

6210: Legend -

The course will explore the legend per se and its relationship to other narrative genres. Beginning with the various classifications and definitions of legend which have been proposed over the years we will progress to look at how legends are communicated, performance and function. Similarly the issues of legend and belief, and legend and truth will be examined. In addition the emergent field of contemporary legend will be explored.

6740: Public Sector Folklore -

A significant number of people who receive advanced degrees in folklore subsequently follow professional careers in public sector folklore. In surveying the literature and activities in this relatively new area of folklore studies, this course is designed to help graduate students prepare more fully for a professional career.

In order to achieve this goal, the course surveys the applications of folklore theories, research techniques and materials in the contexts of public service, benefit, education and/or development.

6770: The Global and the Local -

An examination of the adaptations, transformations, uses, and changing status of traditional expressive culture in the context of globalization. While folklore studies have always been concerned with the global qualities of expressive genres, e.g., international tale types, for the most part they have focused on the significance of traditions in the festive and everyday life of geographic localities ( rural enclaves, urban neighbourhoods ). Today the massive sociocultural changes ushered by globalization may be viewed as either threatening or enhancing such behaviours. Taking a problems approach, this course will investigate the ways in which globalization becomes expressed, accepted or rejected at the level of the small community. Conversely, it will explore the extent to which global culture is responsive to the social need for shared identity through the use and construction of traditions.

6790: Museums: Perspectives and Practices

This course will review and analyze the role of folklore methods and scholarship in the development of museums as well as historic representations of the folk and folklore. Examples of museum interpretations of ethnicity, gender and ageism will help students to explore ways in which the past is presented to and received by visitors. The course will focus on themes of cultural interpretation and their relationship to tourism. Students will learn to evaluate museum practice and its limitations from a folkloristic perspective.

Winter 2014

Undergraduate Courses

Course	Time	Room	Instructor
Folk 1000-01 Introduction to Folklore			TBD
Folk 1000-02 Introduction to Folklore			TBD
Folk 1000-03 Introduction to Folklore			TBD
Folk 1000-04 Introduction to Folklore			TBD
Folk 1060-01 Folklore and Culture			TBD
Folk 1000-81 Introduction to Folklore			Distance
Folk 2100-01 Folklore Research Methods			TBD
Folk 2300-01 Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore			TBD
Folk 2401-01 Folklife			Dr. M. Lesiv
Folk 3100-01 Folktale			Dr. M. Lovelace
Folk 3200-01 Music, Song and Tradition			Dr. H. Everett
Folk 3460-01 Folklore and Literature			Dr. M. Lovelace
Folk 3830-01 Foodways			Dr. P. Smith
Folk 4480-01 Folklore and Oral History			Dr. J. Gould

Graduate Courses

Course	Time	Room	Instructor
Folk 6100-01 Song and Music		ED4036	Dr. H. Everett
Folk 6430-01 Foodways		ED4036	Dr. P. Smith
Folk 6720-01 Folklore and Literature		ED4036	Dr. M. Lovelace
Folk 6730-01 Folklore and Gender		ED4051	Dr. D. Tye
Folk 6740-01 Public Sector Folklore		ED4051	Dr. J. Gould
Folk 6780-01 Ethnicities		ED4036	Dr. M. Lesiv
Folk 7100-01 Advanced Folkloristics II Research and Ethnography		ED4051	Dr. J. Gould

Course Descriptions:

6100: Folksong -

This course addresses a basic question of generic identity: can the combination of linguistic and musical texts called folksong be considered an indentifiable type of music-culture?

6430: Foodways -

The term foodways embraces a variety of traditions which focus on dietary practices as well as the preparation and allocation of food.

This course will explore historical and contemporary approaches to the supply, storage, preparation and serving of food looking, from both a practical and theoretical perspective, at the whole range of cookery and food habits - from the acquisition of raw materials to the allocations of portions.

In terms of the acquisition of food, the course will explore the role of basic domestic food production, as well as the development of wholesale and retail markets and shops. In the area of food storage and preparation, the course will examine the effects which the development of "domestic technology" has had on traditional foodways.

6720: Folklore and Literature -

There have been many interrelations between folklore and literature through the centuries, but here the primary concern is with the way folklore has appeared as literature - in oral cultures - and has been utilised in works of written literature for a range of functions by writers of different centuries and cultures. A secondary, en passant, concern is with written literature as an ethnographic source for folkloric analysts. Study of this kind illuminates the manifold interactions of high culture and folk culture, an understanding of which is necessary for a balanced view of the past.

6730: Folklore and Gender -

Historically, folklorists have focused their studies on groups distinguished by ethnicity, region, political and economic boundaries. With the rise of feminist social scholarship there has been an increasing re-evaluation of the significance of gender in small group interaction and in the existing folklore research. Little attention has been paid to women performers and genres by folklorists who have been predominantly male in the past. Likewise, differences between all male group interaction, all female group interaction, and male female interaction has been neglected until quite recently. These new studies of women's folklore have yielded insights into the realm of men's folklore and into the ways in which the two domains contrast and complement each other.

6740: Public Sector Folklore -

6780: Ethnicities -

This course will explore the multifaceted nature of ethnicity in Canada. Drawing on ethnographic and historical writing, students will examine how individuals of diverse ethnicities experience and interpret their everyday lives. We will consider how ethnicity intersects with other social and cultural variables such as gender, class, age and sexual orientation as well as how a group's experiences and strategies of adaptation have varied depending on time of immigration and place of settlement. A final focus of the course will be on public representations of group identities.

7100: Advanced Folkloristics II - Research and Ethnography

Folklorists have long focused their attention on the study of traditional texts and artifacts, treating both as static "items" whose primary domain is the past. In recent decades, however, this approach has given way to one which views folklore as enacted artistry, as process which achieves meaning in performances. Inquiry thus expands, outward from notions of the time-bound text to encompass artist and community, aesthetics and experience, tradition and vernacular style. This shift in parameters in turn opens up vast new areas of discourse, broadening folklore studies to include diverse realms of complex society. With these changes in scholarly paradigm come changes in methodology and research design, and a new focus on ethnography. This requires an integration of folklore studies with complementary work in anthropology, communications, linguistics, ethnomusicology, etc.......

This course will examine methods of research and ethnography from both a critical and a practical perspective. We will deal with the particular problems of adapting the methodology of other disciplines to the concerns of folklore and will consider the development of our own research methods. Together, we will discuss and apply a variety of methods appraising their usefulness in terms of what Karl Marx called, "the slow growth of empirical adequacy".