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 |
Intersession
| Course | Slot | Room | Instructor |
| Folklore 2100:01 Folklore Research Methods | 04&05 | ED3048 | Dr. Thorne |
St. John's Campus and Harlow Campus
Undergraduate
| Course | Slot | Room | Instructor |
| Folklore 2713-097: 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 39000-097: Heritage Conservation* | SN2018 | Dr. Sharpe | |
| Folklore 3990-097: Making of the English Town* | SN2018 | Dr. Sharpe |
*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 ( Tentative )
| Course | Slot | Room | Instructor |
| Folk 1000-01 Introduction to Folklore | ED4008 | Dr. D. Tye | |
| Folk 1000-02 Introduction to Folklore | ED3034B | Dr. J. Gould | |
| Folk 1000-03 Introduction to Folklore | ED4008 | Dr. M. Lesiv | |
| Folk 1000-04 Introduction to Folklore | ED1014 | Dr. P. Smith | |
| Folk 1000-05 Introduction to Folklore | ED1002 | Dr. P. Hiscock | |
| Folk 1000-081 Introduction to Folklore | Distance | Dr. D. Tye | |
| Folk 2100-001 Folklore Research Methods | ED4008 | Dr. M. Lesiv | |
| Folk 2300-001 Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore | ED4008 | Dr. J. Pocius | |
| Folk 2500-01 Oral Literature | ED3048 | Dr. M. Lovelace | |
| Folk 3360-01 Sex, Folklore and Power | ED4036 | Dr. C. Thorne | |
| Folk 3450-01 Language and Play | ED4036 | Dr. P. Hiscock | |
| Folk 3606-01 Supernatural Folklore | ED3034A | Dr. M. Lesiv | |
| Folk 3612-01 Urban Legend | ED1014 | Dr. P. Smith | |
| Folk 3820-01 Folk Custom | ED4011 | Dr. H. Everett | |
| Folk 3850-01 Material Culture | TBD | Dr. D. Tye | |
| Folk 4470-01 Spaces and Places | ED4036 | Dr. C. Thorne |
Cross-Listed Courses taught by other departments
Graduate ( Tentative )
| Course | Time | Room | Instructor |
| Folk 6010-01 Survey of Folklore Genres | ED4036 | Dr.M. Lovelace | |
| Folk 6020-01 Field and Research Methods | Field School, Sept 8-29,2013 | Dr. J. Pocius | |
| Folk 6030-01 Folklore Theories | ED4036 |
Dr. H. Everett |
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| Folk 6210-01 Legend | ED4051 |
Dr. P.Smith |
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| Folk 6740-01 Public sector Folklore | ED4051 | Dr. J. Gould | |
| Folk 6770-01 The Global and the Local | ED4051 | Dr. C. Thorne | |
| Folk 6790-01 Museums: Perspectives and Practices | ED4036 | Dr. J. Pocius |
Folk 6010 - Survey of Folklore Genres and Processing
This course introduces students entering both the Master's and Phd programmes 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).
Folk 6020 - Field and Research Methods
Often taught as a field school, this course provides a basic introduction to the research resources, tools and methods regularly employed in the area of folklife. On the one hand, the course examines what types of library and archive resources can be useful to the folklorist. On the other hand, it explores how folklorists in fieldwork situations should handle people, and how they can capture a permanent record of the interviews that they have conducted and the events that they have observed.
Folk 6030 - Folklore Theories
This course introduces students entering both the Master's and Phd programmes to the major past and present approaches to the study of folklore; it is thereby a history of folkloristic thought. Interrelationships with other disciplines are considered.
Folk 6210 - Legend
This course explores 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, preformed and function. Similarly the issues of legend and belief, and legend and truth will be examined. In addition the emergent field comtemporary legend will be explored.
Folk 6740- Public Sector Folklore
A significant number of people who receive advance degrees in folklore subsequently follow processional 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.
Folk 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 take 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 neighborhoods ). Today the massive sociocultural changes ushered by globalization may be viewed as either threatening or enhancing such behaviors. 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 needs for shared identity through the use and construction of traditions. Major sections of the course will consider folkloric forms in the contexts of: ecological consciousness and worldview; changing economics, technologies and media; physical movement ( tourism, migration ); nationalism and neonationalism; rhetorical and virtual communities; and emergent global culture. Critical assessments of readings, as well as a major term project reflecting library research, media analysis, and "global contact", will be required.
Folk 6790 - Museums: Perspectives and Practices
This course will review and analyze the role of folklore methods and scholarships in the development of museums as well as historic representation 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.
