A minimum of 30 credit hours, including F501, F516, F517, F523, and F740. Students pursuing the ethnomusicolgy concentration also must take F714 and F794. Foreign Language Requirement Reading proficiency in one modern foreign language. The Department of Folklore offers training in a number of subfields of folklore, including oral narrative, song, material culture, ritual, festival, worldview, and ethnomusicology. Students and faculty conduct research in a range of world areas, using diverse research methods-historical, archival, field, and laboratory.
Students prepare for careers in a variety of academic and public settings.
Students opting for the Ph.D. program with a double major may count the area outside of folklore as the equivalent of two minors if approved by the Department of Folklore. Foreign Language Requirement Reading proficiency in two modern foreign languages. Must be completed before qualifying examination is taken. Research Proposal Must be approved by the research committee, a majority of whose members must be faculty of Folklore. Final Examination Defense of the dissertation.