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In Berkeley (USA)
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Postgraduate
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Berkeley (USA)
The Folklore Program at the University of California, Berkeley trains intellectual leaders in folkloristics for the twenty-first century. We seek to provide a deep, critical, and theoretically-informed reading of folklore scholarship from the seventeenth century through the present. We urge students to develop a particular field of expertise in folkloristics. At the same time, we advise our graduate students to develop strong grounding in another discipline or multidisciplinary perspective, such as race and ethnic studies, performance studies, science studies, rhetoric, narrative theory, ethnomusicology, materiality, women's and queer theory, and others, in order to bring new perspectives to their work in folkloristics.
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FOLKLOR C261 Theories of Narrative 4 Units [+]Expand course description
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Spring 2006
This course examines a broad range of theories that elucidate the formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. It focuses on narratives at work, on the move, in action as they emerge from the matrix of the everyday preeminently, storytelling in conversation--as key to folk genres--the folktale, the legend, the epic, the myth.
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Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C261
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FOLKLOR C262A Theories of Traditionality and Modernity 4 Units [+]Expand course description
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
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Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C262A
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FOLKLOR C262B Theories of Traditionality and Modernity 4 Units [+]Expand course description
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C262B
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FOLKLOR 298 Readings in Folklore 3 - 6 Units [+]Expand course description
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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FOLKLOR 299 Directed Research 3 - 6 Units [+]Expand course description
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
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Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-6 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-15 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 5.5-11 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
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