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FA19: MUSEUMS & MATERIAL CULTURE: 31568
In an integrative fashion, this course draws together three purposes of special concern to emerging students-scholars-practitioners in folklore studies and in neighboring fields such as ethnomusicology, history, and anthropology. The course provides students in such fields with an opportunity to explore, or to explore more deeply, the study of material culture. It is also an opportunity to get oriented to the work of museums of ethnography and world cultures, particularly their research role. Finally, the course is focused on a collections-based research project that will integrate the study of material culture—particularly museum collections—with the wider concerns of folklore studies and neighboring fields. This collections project is an opportunity to pursue original research using the unique object, media, and archival collections of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures (MMWC). Students will investigate, analyze, and present a collections and objects-based research study that can serve as the core of a professional portfolio. As an intensive writing course, students will have structured opportunities to learn and experience the research and writing process, working cumulatively through multiple stages of research, analysis, writing, and revision based on instructor feedback. Final projects will include a (1) a formal written version (suitable for as a scholarly writing sample), (2) version for public consumption in a rich media genre, and (3) an oral symposium presentation for live presentation to a public audience. The formal written version will fall between 5000 and 5500 words in length.
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I423,523 E434,534: FA19
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