CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Laura Wait/SUNY
Last modified by: Bob Perilli/SUNY
Composed: 06/24/2010 04:40 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date: 06/03/2010
Modified: 05/19/2018
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Course Number: (prefix) ART (number) 224314 ESC 2.0 Course number: ARTS-3120 ARTS-3120Documenting Community Arts and Traditions

Name: Documenting Community Arts and Traditions
Datatel Title: (30char) Documenting Community Arts

Area Coordinator: Alice Lai Department Code: 10AA Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? NO GenEd Approval Term/Year:

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Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
First Term Offered: 2014FA (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes: Removed from fall offering and this is the only term the course was offered. Archiving for now. LWait
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Description: Students will learn concepts of folklore and use a range of fieldwork methods to study and document community arts and traditions. Emphasis will be on material culture, verbal art, and belief systems of the local communities. The course will begin with an overview of key concepts, genres, and ethics in folklore studies. Students then will learn fieldwork methods such as interviewing, participant observation, visual and audio documentation, and representation/reporting. Concurrently, students will be expected to carry out a project to practice these fieldwork documentation methods at their own local community. Through regular online discussion of the course readings and individual project, students will also engage with critical issues that arise in the context of conducting local fieldwork. Projects could deal with any of the wide array of local or everyday life artistic expression and traditions that sustain communities: regional arts and crafts, festival/fair, rituals, jokes, proverbs of community elders, regional foodways, and so on. At the end of the course, students will develop a fieldwork portfolio including all the (digitalized) raw material collected from the field, field notes, a well crafted example of visual or audio documentation (e.g., photographic documentation, short video documentation, audio-recording/reporting), and a final culminating report.

Note that this course emphasizes practical exercise of research methodology in the field of folklore studies: interview, visual and audio documentation, and reporting. The primary audience for this course includes students interested in cultural studies, folklore studies, public history, journalism, community services, and the arts. In addition, a student in gender studies could use this course as an opportunity to research some aspect of women's creativity and culture in the local community. Or, a student in Community and Human Services might focus on the role of a regional arts organization in promoting the well-being of the community. Alternatively, a Labor Studies student could study some aspect of working class lore in the local community.

Prerequisites: Camera and audio recorders are required. No prior knowledge of folklore or art is assumed or required. Time, equipment, and ability to conduct a fieldwork project at the local community are crucial.

NOTE: Audio editing software is required only for students who choose to produce an audio project. Video recorder and editing software are required only for students who choose to produce a short video project.

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Major Course Area
The Arts		Minor Course Area
Anthropology, Arts: Visual and Performing, Communications and Media, Cultural Studies		SLN Disciplines
Anthropology
Additional Course Requirements
Audio Component, Video Component		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


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Archive Course: Yes
Archived for Development: Yes

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