HUM 120 Introduction to World Folklore (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly HUMAN 120
Course Description
Offering an examination of folklore, the class provides an academic study of multi-generational cultural stories which are handed down through a variety of modalities. Students will explore the ways folklore reflects and creates communal traditions, values, and beliefs.
Course Content
A. Focused readings and research from several world folk traditions: e.g. trickster tales, hero tales, creation tales
B. Readings and practice in folklore research and analysis
C. Folkloric interpretive lenses: psychoanalytic analysis, anthropological analysis, structural analysis, folk narrative, folklife, folk craft
D. Culturally-focused investigations of specific folkloric traditions: e.g. African-American folklore, European fairy tales, urban legends, children’s folklore
E. Oral traditions
Student Outcomes
1. Define concepts of folklore study (e.g. genre, group, tradition, performance, and/or aesthetics).
2. Apply different theories and analytical lenses to the interpretation of folkloric materials.
3. Analyze and evaluate how folklore influences and is influenced by identity, creation/maintenance, and expression of values related to concepts such as cultural context, power, social control, gender, identity, and economic status.
4. Create folk texts through thorough investigations of past and present world folklore traditions, such as folk narrative, folk life, folk craft.
5. Explain the unique characteristics and history of oral traditions.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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