HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: jewish & comp. folklore prog.

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Dani Schrire

Coordinator Email: dani.schrire@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 13:15-14:15

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Dani Schrire

Course/Module description:
The course addresses the emergence and establishment of a distinct cultural category - folklore. The course combines reading and discussions in the history and theory of folkloristics

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. to compare between different approaches to folklore and folk-culture
2. to observe various practices (scholarly and others) that were tied to the emergence of folklore as a distinctive cultural category.
3. to distinguish between factors that consolidate folklore as a sustainable phenomenon and factors that are more variable.
4. to analyse practices that construct folklore as a distinct cultural category.
5. to scrutinize texts that relate to folklore - implicitly or explicitly.

Attendance requirements(%):
85

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: "Moodle" based instruction

Course/Module Content:
The emergence of folklore as a category
ethnographic questionnaires
Folklore collecting
Authenticity
Encounters in Fieldwork
Genre taxonomies
Tradition Archives
The Nazification of folklore-studies in Germany
Folklore and Revolution
Between Amateurs and Professional folklorists
Devolution and Evolution
Folklore and the Internet

Required Reading:
Will be distributed in the first meeting of the course

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
"Moodle" based course with active participation in internet forum every week