MLitt Scottish Folklore

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• Academic title
  MLitt Scottish Folklore
• Course description
  MLitt: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
  
  Subject to approval
  
  Folklore is the knowledge, art, literature, belief and practice that is disseminated and handed on largely through behaviour, oral communication and customary tradition. Folklore is an important source of popular attitudes, prejudices, and stereotypes, as well as national myths, images, and symbols. Folklore denotes expressive forms, processes, and behaviours; the traditional and popular cultures of a nation, region or community. There are specific genres of folklore such as folktale, folksong, folk speech, folk art, folk drama, folk custom, folk belief, and material culture. Folklore genres incorporate, ballads, myths, legends, proverbs, rhymes, riddles, jokes; rites of passage – weddings, baptisms, funerals – childlore, beliefs and ‘superstitions’, calendar customs, festivals, traditional games, sports, gestures, dramas, and dances. Material culture is expressed in areas such as vernacular architecture, traditional crafts, objects, costumes and food.
  
  This degree focuses on the folklore and ethnology of Scotland: lowland and highland, urban and rural, historical past and present day. Students can study the rich folklore and heritage of Scotland at a local and/or international level.
  
  Specific genres of folklore that you can study as part of this programme, include
  
      * folktale, legend, proverbs and jokes
      * ballad and song
      * folk art, traditional crafts, objects and costumes
      * folk belief, supernatural belief, calendar customs and rituals such as weddings, baptisms and funerals
      * material culture
  
  Content
  
  To graduate from this programme you must complete two core courses, two optional courses and a dissertation.
  
  Core courses
  
      * Folklore genres
      * Fieldwork and research methodologies
  
  Optional courses
  
      * Ballads
      * Storytelling
      * Witch beliefs and the Scottish witch-hunts
      * Folklore and cultural history of animals

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