Majors in the Folklore and Public Culture Program learn to evaluate how academic and public folklore contributes to understanding contemporary issues requiring decision making and policy development. To support this outcome, the program’s core faculty and affiliated professors also offer several approved courses covering a variety of topics such as English, anthropology, history of architecture, women’s and gender history, romance languages, political science, and religious studies.
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FLR 320 Car Cultures
Instructor: Gordon Sayre
In this course, curriculum examines car customizing and tuning as forms of vernacular art; studies the environmental impacts of automobiles, the history of the industry, and the peculiarities of drivers' behavior. Offered alternate years.
FLR 250 Intro to Folklore
Instructor: Leah Lowthorp
In this course, students will learn about the process and genres of traditional, i.e., folk, patterning; the relations between these forms of expression and other arts, especially English and American literature.
FLR 225 Voices of Africa
Instructor: B Mokaya Bosire
In this course, novels, music, dance, dress, paintings, films, and cartoons serve as primary sources from which to learn about the diversity and vivacity of contemporary African peoples.