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  • FOLK 436: Urban Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Cities are unique places with neighborhood tales and hidden folk art, and reflect intricate variations in cultural activities. This course will examine a sampling of this city's ethnic arts, as well as the face to face communication within the intersections of city societies. It will involve weekly local field observations and will be of use to anyone studying human interaction, creative process, or urban ethnography.
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  • FOLK 485: Japanese Theatre

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kano. Japan has one of the richest and most varied theatrical traditions in the world. In this course, we will examine Japanese theater in historical and comparative contexts. The readings and discussions will cover all areas of the theatrical experience (script, acting, stage design, costumes, music, audience). Audio-visual material will be used whenever appropriate and possible. The class will be conducted in English, with all English materials.
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  • FOLK 499: Independent Study

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Directed study at the senior level.
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  • FOLK 500: Proseminar in Folklore

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. The shifting definition of folklore as a subject has allowed for the dynamic development of a field that has never been content with narrow disciplinary territory. The course endeavors to provide an entry into the breadth of folkloric expression--told, performed, enacted, believed, or made. We will also study the sociopolitical and intellectual ground on which the study of folklore has been positioned over roughly the last two hundred years. Readings and class discussions will clarify how scholars today conceptualize "expressive culture," exemplify earlier ways of organizing and analyzing the material, and explore the linkage between available technological recording tools and the shape of folklore documentation and analysis. (required course for graduate students in folklore; open to others with instructor's permission)
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  • FOLK 502: Fieldwork Theory and Practice

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, M. This graduate seminar explores the theory and practice of folkloristic ethnography, with a focus on sites in West Philadelphia. Through reading and exercises in ethnographic observation and writing, students consider the natureof the enthnographic encounter, its social functions and civic possibilities, and the writings, archives, films, recordings and community events that form its outcomes. Historical and contemporary reading provide an overview of ethnography as it has emerged in the social sciences over the past century, while attention to the techniques and technologies in fieldnotes, sound and video recording, photography, archiving, and sensing will develop students' skills as ethnographic scholars, writers, and community activists. Undergraduates may enroll with permission.
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  • FOLK 503: Issues in Folklore Theory

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. An introduction to folklore for graduate students, concentrating upon certain key issues in the theory and history of the discipline. "Fieldwork" is the term folklorists and scholars in related fields use to describe the process by which they arrive at their discipline's subject matter. This includes everything from the pragmatic issues of collecting and documenting materials to the complex relations involved whken people study people. Readings, short writing assignments, and class discussions will probe this spectrum of concerns comprehensively. Brief exercises are planned to experience different aspects of fieldwork. On this background of theory and practice, students will work toward designing a fieldwork based project and draft a funding proposal.
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  • FOLK 510: Ethnography of Belief

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, D. This course will examine traditional systems of supernatural belief with an emphasis on the role of personal experience in their development and maintenance. The course will focus on the subject of belief generally conceived of as being "folk" in some sense (e.g., beliefs in ghosts), but will not exclude a consideration of popular and academic beliefs where appropriate (e.g., popular beliefs about UFO's and theological doctrines of the immortality of the soul). The course will be multidisciplinary in scope. This course serves as an introduction to folk belief systems and is open to qualified undergraduate students.
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  • FOLK 512: Spirituality,Religion and Health:Ethical,Cultural and Medical Issues

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, D. Although many have attributed modern medicine's success to its liberation from the ancient association of healing with religion, recent research has shown that spirituality (the personal aspect of the sacred) and relgion (the institutional forms of spiritual belief and practice) are powerful influences in health decision-making and that most American patients want spiritual matters discussed with their medical care. Additional research has documented effects of spiritual belief and relgious practice on physical and mental health, ranging from general effects of religiosity on overall health and longevity to double-blind studies of intercessory prayer. At the same time critics argue that the research is flawed and that clinical involvement in religious matters is unethical. This topic, once marginal, now appears in the pages of major medical journals and has drawn the attention of the National Institutes of Health. This course will examine a variety of spiritual traditions in realtion to health, including major world religions and those groups with highly specific health teachings such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and shamanic traditions. Competing points of view will be considered in ethical, medical and cultural terms.
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  • FOLK 514: Human Diversity and the Cultures of Medicine

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, D. Over the past decade there has been a growing awareness of the importance of such basic aspects of human diversity as culture, (religion, language), ethnicity, economic status, gender, age and disability in health care as in other areas of life. This course will deal with (1) the social and cultural foundations of health care in the modern world and (2) the ways that diversity affects and is affected by health care. Because simplistic views of diversity reinforce stereotypes, the course necessarily recognizes that each individual belongs to more than one group -- each person has a cultural background, a gender, an age, may have one or more disabilites, and so forth. And even within groups, the experiences and needs of each individual are unique. For example, there is no such person as "the African-American patient" or "the female patient." Proper attention to diversity can enhance both cultural and individually appropriate care for all persons. By dealing with these political, social and cultural aspects of diversity and health care, this course will introduce students to complex and basic issues of social construction ranging from cultural dimensions of medical ethics to the importance of differing health traditions (from folk medicine to foodways to such beliefs as the idea that AIDS is a genocidal government conspiracy).
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  • FOLK 518: American Vernacular Architecture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. St. George. This course explores the form and development of America's built landscape -- its houses, farm buildings, churches, factories, and fields -- as a source of information on folk history, vernacular culture, and architectural practice.
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