This concentration offers students the opportunity to study oral literature and traditional artifacts in their historical, cultural, and performance contexts. Study in folklore addresses secular tales, songs, proverbs, jokes, and material culture items as they are performed within and among cultural groups. Mythology explores the texts of the sacred, of the creation, initiation, transformation, and destruction of a people.
Courses also address the study of folklore and mythology in literature.
Category A courses focus on folklore and mythology study. ANTH 450 Qualitative Methods in Sociocultural Research CLAS 310 Greek and Roman Epic 3. Category B courses bear a special relatedness to folklore and mythology study. Chaucer ENGL 645 English and Irish Drama of the 20th Century ENGL 472 Spenser ENGL 474 Milton 2. Non-ENGL courses that will always satisfy a maximum of 3 credit hours toward concentration requirements.