Customary Law: The Folklore Aspect

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

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Customary Law: The Folklore Aspect
Code
ОК25
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
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Work effectively with information: select the necessary information from various sources, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 16. To know and understand the basic concepts, theories and concepts of folklore, linguistics and literary studies, to be able to apply them in professional activities. PLO 22. Carry out a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of a folklore product. PLO 23. Characterize the semantics and pragmatics of rituals and ritual complexes.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Before studying the discipline, the student should know: basic information on the history of Ukraine, Ukrainian folklore and ethnography; have a basic knowledge of law; be able to select, process and systematize scientific sources on a particular issue; have basic skills in abstracting a scientific text.
Course content
The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic view of folklore studies as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge; to reveal folklore as a textual space for the accumulation of traditional meanings, including legal ones; to trace the genesis of autochthonous Ukrainian law - a product of ethnocreation. Annotation. The course "Customary Law: Folklore Aspect" is a component of the complex discipline "Discursive Folklore Studies". This educational component reveals the customary law within the subject field of folklore studies, where the object is a set of customs regulating social legal relations, and the subject is the forms of folk subjectivity that generate legal meanings at the levels of verbal text, ritual, and ritual.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Ivanovska O.P., Ivanovskyi P.O. Customary law in Ukraine. Ethnocreative aspect: Study guide. Edition 2: supplemented. K.: IZMN, 2013. History of Ukrainian Law: a textbook / [O.O. Shevchenko, O.Y. Vovk, V.P. Kapelyushnyi and others]; edited by O.O. Shevchenko. - K.: Olan, 2001. - 214 p. Philosophy of folklore law: [monograph]. -Lviv: West Ukrainian Consulting Center LLC, 2013. 228 с.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Classes are held in the form of lectures and seminars, where the assessment is carried out according to the types of work and forms of control. The course ends with a test. Students who have scored less than the critical-calculated minimum of 48 points are not allowed to take the test. Students who do not reach the grade level during the semester must work on the missed topics in writing and submit/send them to the teacher who conducts the seminar classes in a Google class.
Assessment methods and criteria
Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level assessment of the material learned, assessment of theoretical training - learning outcomes (knowledge) - 40% of the total grade, and assessment of practical training - learning outcomes (skills, communication, autonomy and responsibility) - 60% of the total grade. Assessment of semester work: oral response at the seminar - 2/1, completion of two individual tasks - 6/4, two tests - 20/13. The total grade for the semester consists of the points received for the classroom work, which synthesizes and independent work on theoretical material to prepare for the classroom. All types of work for the semester have a total of 80/48. The discipline ends with a test in the form of a written test (20/12).
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

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of folklore
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology