FOLKLORE 102 – Introduction To Comparative US Ethnic And American Indian Studies
(Cross listed as: AFROAMER 102/AMER IND 102/ASIAN AM 102/CHICLA 102)
MW 1:20-2:10 pm Room: 19 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD (3 credits)
Discussion sections:
- Section 301: R 9:55-10:45 am Room: 205 Van Hise Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 302: R 11:00-11:50 am Room: 219 Van Hise Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 303: R 2:25-3:15 pm Room: 225 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 304: R 3:30-4:20 pm Room: 225 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 305: F 9:55-10:45 am Room: 225 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 306: F 11:00-11:50 am Room: 224 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 307: F 1:20–2:10 pm Room: 225 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
- Section 308: F 2:25-3:15 pm Room: 225 Ingraham Hall Instructor: TBD
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: Introduction to comparative ethnic studies, examining race, ethnicity, and indigeneity within the United States. Includes perspectives from African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chican and Latin studies.
FOLKLORE 103 – Introduction To Music Cultures Of The World
(Cross listed as: MUSIC 103)
MW 1:20-2:10 pm Room: 2650 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Nadia Chana (3 credits)
Discussion sections:
- Section 301: R 12:05-12:55 pm Room: 2441 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Sealock
- Section 302: R 1:20–2:10 pm Room: 2441 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Sealock
- Section 303: R 2:25-3:15 pm Room: 2441 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Andrea Fowler
- Section 304: R 3:30-4:20 pm Room: 2441 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Andrea Fowler
- Section 305: F 8:50-9:40 am Room: 2511 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Lauricella
- Section 306: F 9:55-10:45 am Room: 2441 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Lauricella
- Section 307: F 11:00-11:50 am Room: 2511 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Lauricella
- Section 308: F 12:05-12:55 pm Room: 2511 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Lauricella
- Section 309: F 11:00-11:50 am Room: 2531 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Sealock
- Section 310: F 12:05-12:55 pm Room: 2551 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Amanda Sealock
- Section 311: F 12:05-12:55 pm Room: 2411 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Andrea Fowler
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: An introductory ethnomusicology course providing a variety of ways to approach musics typically not covered in music history courses. Active engagement with these musics within their larger world contexts.
FOLKLORE 210 – The African Storyteller
(3 credits)
(Cross listed as: AFRICAN 210)
- Lecture 1: Online Instructor: TBD (3 credits)
- Lecture 2: Online Instructor: TBD (3 credits)
- Lecture 3: Online Instructor: TBD (3 credits)
- Lecture 4: Online Instructor: TBD (3 credits)
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: The oral tradition and the written word; the composition of stories, relationship between performer and audience, and transmission of tradition in various African societies.
FOLKLORE 320 – Folklore Of Wisconsin
TR 1:20-2:15 pm Room: 1335 Sterling Hall Instructor: Anna Rue (3 credits)
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: Introduction to folk cultural groups and folklore forms of Wisconsin.
FOLKLORE 345 – In Translation: The Scandinavian Tale and Ballad
(Cross listed as: LITTRANS 345/MEDIEVAL 345)
TR 1:00-2:15 pm Room: 578 Van Hise Hall Instructor: Scott Mellor (3 credits)
Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Description: The genres of ballad and tale, which originate in the distant past, have often been scorned by the literary establishment, but the fact that they survived through centuries of oral transmission until they were finally recorded in the fairly recent past testifies to their lasting existential appeal. The stories these texts tell are dashingly entertaining and often deeply disturbing: they may offer a profoundly fatalistic view of existence, but they may also voice an angry and, at the same time, humorous protest against oppression. When this narrative type was discovered by scholars and the societal elite about 1800, it inspired many first-rank Nordic authors, e.g., Hans Christian Andersen, Henrik Ibsen, Selma Lagerlöf; and in the 20th century it has cast its spell over Isak Dinesen, Villy Sørensen, and Pär Lagerkvist and its influence has moved from literary to other media today. The course examines both the original literature and its modern “imitations” as well as gives an introduction to the critical methodologies that have recently been developed to deal with this seemingly simple, but in reality highly sophisticated, narrative.
Please contact samellor@wisc.edu with any questions.
FOLKLORE 352 – Shamanism
(Cross listed as: RELIG ST 352)
TR 2:30-3:45 pm Room: 6203 Sewell Social Sciences Instructor: Thomas A. DuBois (3 credits)
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: Survey of shamanism as a religious tradition and sociocultural force in Siberian, Asian, and Native American societies. Exploration of shamanic rituals, roles, cosmology. Cultural and political uses of shamanism in traditional and modern contexts.
FOLKLORE 402 – Musical Cultures Of The World
TR 8:00-9:15 am Room: 2251 Mosse Humanities Building Instructor: Nadia Chana (3 credits)
Prerequisites: MUSIC 212
Description: Explores the performance, transmission, and consumption of traditional and popular musics outside of the standard Euro-American context. Employs musical-analytic and critical approaches to trace transnational musical circulation.
FOLKLORE 430 – Topics In American Folklore: Ethnic Studies (Immigration and Indigeneity)
M 2:30-3:45 pm Room: 2425 Sterling Hall Instructor: B. Marcus Cederström (3 credits)
Prerequisites: None. Open to first-year students.
Description: Topics in American Folklore-Ethnic Studies. Topics in historical or contemporary folklore and folklife pertaining to persistently marginalized racial or ethnic groups in the United States.
FOLKLORE 491 – Practicum In Public Folklore
Prerequisites: Junior standing or higher and FOLKLORE 490.
Description: Offers professional experiences to qualified students who work as interns with a public agency or a private non-profit organization involved in public folklore projects.
THE FOLLOWING COURSE ARE OFFERED AS INDEPENDENT STUDY OPTIONS.
- FOLKLORE 399 – Directed Study (1-3 credits)
- IND 001: Thomas A. DuBois
- IND 002: James Leary
- IND 003: Ruth Olson
- FOLKLORE 699 – Independent Study (1-3 credits)
- IND 001: Thomas A. DuBois
- IND 001: James Leary
- IND 001: Ruth Olson
- IND 017: Christine Garlough
- IND 018: Janet Gilmore
Note: These courses require consent of instructor.
For questions regarding these courses please contact instructor or email us at: info@gns.wisc.edu