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Graduate Certificate in Folklore
The certificate in folklore enables students to explore the processes of tradition that move through multiple expressive forms, such as folktales, folk beliefs, folk medicine, folk art, folksong, and literature. A discipline based on ethnographic fieldwork, folklore offers students a chance to work in communities and collect living traditional materials that are critical to human identity and values. Interdisciplinary by nature, folklore thrives on local particularities as well as compelling global connections. This certificate prepares students for careers in cultural agencies, governmental organizations, and teaching institutions, and advanced study in the humanities.
Certificate Requirements (Catalog Year 2009-2010)
See the university catalog for policies governing all graduate certificates.
Students pursuing this certificate must complete 18 credits distributed
as follows:
- Five required courses (15 credits): ENGL 529, 591 (6 credits), 798; ANTH 750
- One research course (3 credits) chosen from ENGL 701, HIST 610, SOCI 634
Requirements may be different for earlier catalog years. See the University Catalog archives.