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12 Week Evening Session, Master of Liberal Arts
Folklore and Folklife (221)
FOLK (221) 535 940
Children's Folklore
Fulfills Distribution Requirement I: Society
W,
0530PM-0840PM Beresin
Cross-Listed with: EDUC 550 940
Williams Hall
, Room:316
This course examines childhood cross-culturally
and focuses on the expressive cultures of children at play. Students will
carry out field observations of children at a playground of their choice
and use their fieldwork to critique generalized assumptions about
childhood. Topics include games, songs, pranks, rhymes and jokes of
childhood and the historical framing of play. This course will be of
interest to students of psychology, anthropology, folklore, sociology,
linguistics, and social welfare.
12 Week Evening Session, Master of Liberal Arts
Folklore and Folklife (221)
FOLK (221) 580 940
Words in Action: Literature and Activism
M, 0600PM-0910PM Watterson
Logan Hall
, Room:204
How do words transform people, places, and events
in ways that bring about social change? What are the motivations,
methods, politics and implications of "doing good work?" How does an
understanding of doing good work depend on one's position: as non-profit
worker, social justice advocate, community activist, business person? In
this interdisciplinary seminar we will cover current issues surrounding
social initiatives in many forms of literature: from fiction and
non-fiction, to exhibits, web-sites, on-line journals, grant-proposals,
and ethnographic documentaries. Students will be given an opportunity to
do participatory research on local concerns: witnessing, critiquing, and
putting words into action.
12 Week Evening Session, Master of Liberal Arts
Folklore and Folklife (221)
FOLK (221) 636 940
Migration and Ethnicity: Research and Archival
Resources
M, 0530PM-0840PM Kruesi
Logan Hall
, Room:493
The Philadelphia area offers rich possibilities
for conducting research on ethnicity and migration with over 30 major
archival and special collections libraries plus hundreds of small
archives maintained by community groups. Many of these collections
reflect the late 19th-and 20th-century migrations of African Americans,
Chinese, Italians, Irish, European Jews, and other Germans and Eastern
Europeans to the city. Students will learn how to search archival
databases on-line; how to access information in manuscript collections;
and how to evaluate diaries, letters, administrative, and other records
in historical and cultural contexts. Course topics include the
construction and destruction of ethnic boundaries by immigrant groups and
by dominant classes; work and migration; immigrants as entrepreneurs;
gender differences in the immigration experience; intermarriage; ethnic
conflicts (including racial profiling); social mobility; and religious
diversity. As immigrants from Africa, Russia, Mexico, Asia, and Central
and South America make Philadelphia their home, transnational communities
are emerging. The changing landscapes of urban and suburban ethnic
communities and traditional festivals, food, dance, and music (and their
documentation by professionals and amateurs) are subjects of this course.
Students will write a research paper using archival sources and/or oral
history research methodology.
CGS Evening Session, CGS
Folklore and Folklife (221)
Note: In addition to these courses offered on campus,
Folklore courses are also offered in our Summer Abroad Program. See Penn
Summer Abroad for descriptions.
FOLK (221) 201 900
American Folklore
Fulfills General Requirement II: History &
Tradition
R, 0530PM-0840PM Winick
Williams Hall
, Room:220
American Folklore encompasses an astonishing
array of cultural groups and artistic forms: African-American oral
poetry and Franco-American fiddle tunes, Irish-American songs and
Italian-American food, Native American jokes and German-American quilts,
ancient old-country recipes and the latest and bizarre urban legend. In
this course, we will survey some of the groups that we call "American"
and some of the expressive traditions that we call "folklore." We will
discuss how these traditions originate, how they develop over time, and
especially how they become part of or remain separate from American
popular culture. Along the way, we will raise important questions about
the meanings that folklore holds for "Americans," for smaller cultural
groups, and for individuals.
Summer Session 1, School of Arts & Sciences
Folklore and Folklife (221)
FOLK (221) 231 910
American Popular Culture
Fulfills General Requirement III: Arts &
Letters
MW, 1030AM-0140PM Samper
Cross-Listed with: SOCI 229 910
Williams Hall
, Room:201
The course will explore the history and practice
of popular culture and cultural studies in the United States. We will
begin by challenging the concepts of "folk," "mass, "and "popular" as
well as "American" and "culture." Through analysis of audience response
to performed or viewed events we will explore how and why people actively
negotiate and interpret popular materials. This class will attempt to
situate popular culture within a larger social, cultural and political
framework. We will investigate MTV, talk shows, fashion, club cultures,
rap and other music, pro-wrestling, professional sports, Hollywood
movies, television and advertising. We will end by looking into the
exportation of American popular culture and its reception,
interpretation, adaptation and consumption around the world.
Summer Session 2, Master of Liberal Arts
Folklore and Folklife (221)
Note: The following MLA course is a six week taught
in the Second Summer Session (July 1-August 9). Non-MLA students may also
register for the course. See description under heading Master of Liberal
Arts.
FOLK (221) 406 940
Folklore and the Supernatural
TR, 0530PM-0840PM Griswold
Cross-Listed with: RELS 406 940
Williams Hall
, Room:218
Summer Session 2, School of Arts & Sciences
Folklore and Folklife (221)
FOLK (221) 069 920
Folk and Alternative Medicine
TR, 0600PM-0910PM Ballard
Williams Hall
, Room:203
This course will examine folk and popular health
belief systems in the United States currently known as Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM). An ethnographic approach to reaching an
appreciation and understanding of a variety of healing systems. The many
ways in which people explain why and how they become ill will be
examined, their methods of choosing what to do about illness, and how
these things relate to larger issues of beliefs and values. We will
compare these systems with each other, and with the conventional
biomedical system, to achieve a better comprehension of the variety of
constructions of health, illness and treatment they represent. Guest
lectures by practitioners and participants in non-allopathic healing
systems will provide insider views of some of the systems under
consideration.
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