AMST 282 - Folklore

This course is designed to familiarize students with the fundamental perspectives, history, and methods of Folkloristics. This includes oral, social, material, and artistic aspects of folk study. Students will learn how folk culture forms and maintains social, cultural, and subcultural groups and how folklorists choose, gather, classify, measure and write about folklore. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits