Folklore Minor

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Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Studies
Degrees Offered: None
Minor Offered: Folklore

Program Requirements:

Of the 16 hours required for this interdisciplinary minor, at least 9 must be at the 300 level or above. Students will need to satisfy prerequisites wherever they exist and will additionally need permission of the Minor Oversight Committee before choosing to use a course marked with two asterisks (**) to fulfill a requirement in the minor.

Required Courses

Students must complete either (a) a folklore-related capstone in their home major, (b) an independent, mentored, folklore capstone project, or (c) a for-credit internship in a folklore-related field.

Students must also complete the following:

One course from Area I (below): 3 Credit Hours
Two courses from Areas I, II, or III (below): 6 Credit Hours

ENG 365 - Folklore Credits: 3 hours
IDSM 300 - Folklore Colloquium Credits: 0.5 hours
(taken twice)
SOAN 191 - Anthropological Inquiry Credits: 3 hours

Area I – Theory and Methodology

BSAD 365 - Consumer Behavior Credits: 3 hours
**
COMM 357 - Survey of Rhetoric Credits: 3 hours
**
COMM 420 - Intercultural Communication Credits: 3 hours
**
HIST 335 - Oral History Credits: 3 hours
**
JINS 349 - Bodylore/Brainlore: Thinking with the Body Credits: 3 hours
LING 238 - Introduction to Linguistics Credits: 3 hours
LING 324 - Topics in Sociolinguistics Credits: 3 hours
LING 417 - History of the English Language Credits: 3 hours
PHRE 365 - Method and Theory in Religious Studies Credits: 3 hours
SOAN 232 - Anthropology of Gender Credits: 3 hours
SOAN 253 - Comparative Cultures Credits: 3 hours

Area II – Cultural Group Focus:

CHIN 311 - Chinese Culture Credits: 3 hours
CLAS 361 - Greek and Roman Mythology Credits: 3 hours
ENG 226 - World Literatures: Topics Credits: 3 hours
ENG 330 - North American Indian Literature Credits: 3 hours
ENG 331 - African American Literature Credits: 3 hours
ENG 341 - Old English Literature Credits: 3 hours
ENG 498 - Senior English Seminar Credits: 4 hours
(Nationality and Ethnicity, Midwestern Literature)
FREN 321 - French Literature I Credits: 3 hours
GEOG 310 - Environmental Geography Credits: 3 hours
**
GERM 339 - German Culture in English Credits: 3 hours
HIST 318 - Asian American History Credits: 3 hours
HIST 319 - Asian American Women Credits: 3 hours
HIST 336 - American Cultural History Credits: 3 hours
HIST 370 - The Old South Credits: 3 hours
HIST 384 - Peoples of the Russian Empire and Former Soviet Union Credits: 3 hours
HIST 422 - The Frontier and West in American History to 1900 Credits: 3 hours
HLTH 410 - Health Communication Methods Credits: 3 hours
ITAL 324 - Italian Civilization I Credits: 3 hours
JINS 300 - Cultural Crossroads (template course) Credits: 3 hours
**
JINS 304 - Native American Conflict Credits: 3 hours
JINS 316 - Portrayals of Women (template course) Credits: 3 hours
**
JINS 325 - Rural America Credits: 3 hours
JINS 339 - Gender and Culture (template course) Credits: 3 hours
JINS 340 - German-Jewish Identities Credits: 3 hours
**
JINS 360 - Amish History and Culture Credits: 3 hours
RUSS 350 - Russian Culture Credits: 3 hours
SPAN 362 - Civilization of Spain Credits: 3 hours
SPAN 363 - Latin American Civilization Credits: 3 hours

Area III – Cultural Product Focus:

Note: Acceptable topics for ENG 498 Senior English Seminar include:

Midwestern Literature: 4 Credit Hours
Body Language: 4 Credit Hours
Folklore and Fairy Tales: 4 Credit Hours

AGSC 152 - Horsemanship Level I Credits: 1 hour
ART 224 - Non-Western Art Credits: 3 hours
ART 327 - Egyptian Art Credits: 3 hours
**
ART 328 - The Art of Greece and Rome Credits: 3 hours
**
BRA 305 - The Afro-Brazilian Music of Bahia, Brazil Credits: 3 hours
ENG 308 - Mythology Credits: 3 hours
ENG 498 - Senior English Seminar Credits: 4 hours
ENG 502 - Studies in Myth Credits: 4 hours
ES 151 - Irish Ceili Dance Credits: 1 hour
ES 154 - Ballroom Dancing Credits: 1 hour
ES 157 - Beginning Jazz Dance Credits: 1 hour
ES 159 - Social and Country-Western Dance Credits: 1 hour
ES 211 - Folk and Social Dance Credits: 1 hour
HIST 322 - The Western Film Credits: 3 hours
JINS 301 - Music in Religious Thought and Practice Credits: 3 hours
JINS 322 - Architecture: Forms and Structures Credits: 3 hours
JINS 323 - Dress and Self Image Credits: 3 hours
JINS 337 - Musical Theatre Credits: 3 hours
JINS 347 - Religion, Health, and Healing Credits: 3 hours
JINS 357 - Bayou Blues: French Music in Louisiana Credits: 3 hours
JINS 358 - Textiles as Cultural Documents: Hanging by a Thread Credits: 3 hours
**
JINS 371 - Arrest the Music! Music and Political Protest Credits: 3 hours
MUSI 205 - Perspectives in Music: World Musics Credits: 3 hours
MUSI 207 - Perspectives in Music: Jazz and the American Experience Credits: 3 hours
MUSI 340 - Music History I Credits: 3 hours
**
THEA 359 - Acting III: Lyric Performance Credits: 3 hours
**
THEA 395 - Basic Costuming Credits: 3 hours