Ukrainian folklore (2nd semester)

Course: Folklore Studies, Ukrainian Language and Literature and Foreign Language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Ukrainian folklore (2nd semester)
Code
ННД 09
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Learning outcomes
PLO 7. Understand the main problems of philology and approaches to their solution using appropriate methods and innovative approaches. approaches. PLO 13. Analyze and interpret works of Ukrainian and foreign fiction and oral folklore, determine their specificity and place in the literary process. PLO 15. Carry out linguistic, literary and special philological analysis of texts of different styles and genres. PLO 16. To know and understand the basic concepts, theories and concepts of folklore studies, linguistics and literary studies, to be able to to apply them in professional activities. PLO 23. Characterize the semantics and pragmatics of rituals and ritual complexes.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Know the basic information about Ukrainian folk poetry 2. To be able to identify samples of oral text, distinguish its functions. 3. To have elementary skills of abstracting a scientific text.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline "Ukrainian Folklore" is to provide students with a systematic vision of the origins, evolution, and poetic specificity of the product of ethnocreation, to understand its artistic identity and multifunctional connections with humanities. The teaching material of the course is folk poetry texts of the canonical genres of folk literature, as well as non-verbal texts of ritual folk culture, which constitute the syncretic integrity of the folklore phenomenon. Annotation. The discipline is a component of a complex discipline, where Part 2 is devoted to the study of ceremonial folklore as a syncretic intertextual phenomenon. The object of the course is ritual texts that represent the family ritual tradition of different regions of the Ukrainian lands in its historical development.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Durkheim E. Primitive forms of religious life: the totemic system in Australia. K.: Universe, 2002. 424 p. Eliade M. Mephistopheles and Androgyne / Mircea Eliade: Trans. from English, German, French K.: Osnovy, 2001. 591 p. Ivanovska O. Ukrainian folklore: semantics and pragmatics of traditional meanings: textbook. K.: VPK "Express-Polygraph", 2012. 336 p. Labashchuk O. Natal narrative and oral tradition: syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Monograph. – Ternopil: “Textbooks and manuals”, 2013. – 318 p. Mayerchyk M. Ritual and body. Structural and semantic analysis of the rites of the Ukrainian family cycle.-K.: "Criticism" magazine, 2011.-325p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course includes 3 content parts, the first of which is devoted to the study of maternity folklore, the second to the study of wedding folklore, and the third to the funeral folklore text as a whole body of verbal, action, and material subtexts. Classes are held in the form of lectures and seminars, at which evaluation is carried out according to the types of work and forms of control. The discipline ends with a test. Students who scored a total number of points less than the critical calculation minimum - 48 points, are not allowed to take the test. For students who did not reach the cut-off level during the semester, they must work on the missed topics in writing and submit/send them by email to the teacher conducting the seminar classes.
Assessment methods and criteria
Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides a two-level assessment of the learned material, assessment of theoretical training - learning outcomes (knowledge) - 40% of the total assessment, and assessment of practical training - learning outcomes (skills, communication, autonomy and responsibility) - 60% of the total evaluations Evaluation of the semester work: oral answer at the seminar session - 3/2 p., performance of four creative tasks for 7/5 p., three control papers for 20/6 p. The overall grade for the semester consists of points received for classroom work, which synthesizes and independent work on processing theoretical material for classroom preparation. All types of work for the semester have a total of 80/48 points. The discipline ends with a credit in the form of a written test (20/12b) *The sum of points received by students has a factor of 2.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian Language

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Petrivna Ivanovska
Department of folklore
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Nataliia Mykhailivna Khomenko
Department of folklore
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology