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  • FOLK 280: Jewish Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ben-Amos. The Jews are among the few nations and ethnic groups whose oral tradition occurs in literary and religious texts dating back more than two thousand years. This tradition changed and diversified over the years in terms of the migrations of Jews into different countries and the historical, social, and cultural changes that these countries underwent. The course attempts to capture the historical and ethnic diversity of Jewish folklore in a variety of oral literary forms. A basic book of Hasidic legends from the 18th century will serve as a key text to explore problems in Jewish folklore relating to both earlier and later periods.
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  • FOLK 299: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Directed study at the sophomore level.
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  • FOLK 310: Religious Diversity in America:West Philadelphia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Matter. In the 1950's America seemed to be a land of "Protestant, Catholic, and Jew." Now it is clearly also a land of Muslims and Hindus, Buddhists and Taoists, Rastafarians and Neo-pagans and many more religious groups. This course will focus upon a variety of topics: religious diversity in West Philadelphia, Philadelphia and beyond; the politics of religious diversity; religion in American schools and cities; and conflicts and cooperation among diverse religious groups.
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  • FOLK 321: Exploring Local Memory and Tradition

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Hufford M. In this place-based community serivce learning course, we explore the use of traditional verbal arts material practices among immigrant communities seeking to make Philadelphia home. We begin with theories of culture, community, identity, and the production of locality from the social science, and move from there into historic, literary, and ethnographic portrayals of relevance tothe community we will be working with. Students are introduced to the principles of ethnographic fieldwork, including techniques of participant observation, interviewing, community-based research design, interpretation, and presentation, and the ethical dimensions of fieldwork. Applying these methods, students develop a project that serves the needs of a collaborating Philadephia community. Students gain critical thinking and oberservation skills from the readings, discussion, writing assignments, and field trips. The fieldwork component for the Spring 2007 focuses on the verbal arts and material cultural traditions of South Philadelpia's Indonesian community. In partnersip with the Folk Arts and Cultural Treasures School (FACTS),students and faculty will develop an overview of Philadelpia's Indonesian community and its goals for cultural and lingustic maintenance. Students will also work with community members to identify resources on which FACTS can draw in order to support these goals for the many Indonesian children who have recently enrolled in the school. This one and a half credit course, which fulfils the General Disribution requirement in Society, will be of special value to students interested in anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, linguistics, asian studies, liteerary studies and vernacular arts and culture.
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  • FOLK 323: Material Life in America,1600-1800

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. St. George. This course will explore the history of America's use and fascination with material goods between 1600 and 1860. We will examine such issues as the transferal of European traditions of material culture to the New World, the creationof American creolized forms, the impact of reformers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the development of regional landscapes. Thematic issues will include consumerism, objects as symbolic communication and metaphor, and the complementary issues of archaeology and history of art in material culture study.
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  • FOLK 360: Native American Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    J.Berman. A survey of the indigenous oral literaturres of North America that will read Native American myths and other traditional narratives with the primary aim to exploring their meanings to Native people. Topics will include, among other things, moral and religious significance, performance, aesthetics, humor, and the relationship of myth to landscape and individual life experience. The course will also place the study of Native American folklore in the context of the history of scholarship, and current issues such as cultural renewal, language endangerment, cultural representation, and cultural property rights.
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  • FOLK 369: Introduction Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will present the study of health traditions in the field of folklore and folklife. It is designed to explore the value of this approach to disciplines and individuals as they simultaneously bear upon all human experience with, communication about, and understanding of illness, disease and healing.
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  • FOLK 399: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Directed study at the junior level.
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  • FOLK 406: Folklore and the Supernatural

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Some beliefs in the supernatural have not diminished appreciably in modern cultures, in spite of many predictions that they would do so. This course will examine traditional beliefs about supernatural beings, supernatural realms, and humans who interact with these, as well as the historical development of Western ideas of "the supernatural" itself.
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  • FOLK 420: Culture,Communication,and Body Language

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Our perception and interpretation of body language is often subliminal, but is crucial in all communication. This course will develop skills in observation and analysis of nonverbal behavior, with a particular emphasis on cross cultural communication. In contemporary society, the analysis of nonverbal communication has applications in education, psychology, business, advertising, medicine, police work, the justice system, the military, religion, sports, and politics. As video and digital cameras are increasingly being placed in public (and private!) locations, the ethical questions of why, how, and by whom body movements and images are analyzed become a topic of primary importance for society. Clothing, scents, gestures, eye contact, silence, music, dance, the built environment -- all are used to construct relationships and develop markets for the new century. Readings from a number of disciplinary perspectives will give us the opportunity to investigate these and other issues related to the body and to nonverbal communication in multicultural societies.
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