Methods of folklore sample analysis

Course: Folklore Studies, cross-cultural communication and foreign language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Methods of folklore sample analysis
Code
ОК. 12
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PRN 3. Apply modern methods and technologies, in particular information technologies, for successful and effective implementation of professional activities and ensuring the quality of scientific research in the field. PRN 8. To evaluate historical heritage and the latest achievements of philological science, in particular folkloristics. PRN 11. Carry out a scientific analysis of folklore material, interpret and structure it taking into account classical and modern methodological principles, formulate generalizations based on independently processed data.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Before starting the course, master's students should have basic factual knowledge of a humanitarian nature, know the main stages and characteristics of world folkloristics as a science related to the formation of its various directions and schools; basic theoretical concepts, concepts, theories of folklore product research; main approaches and generalizations, strategies of the theoretical discourse of modern folkloristics around the basic concepts, terms, categories of folklore science. To be able to independently carry out scientific and research work in folklore studies, implementing the scientific and theoretical foundations of the world science of folklore, adapting the priority concepts, theories and methods of observation, generalization and comprehensive analysis of the researched material.
Course content
The goal of the discipline is to provide an objective historical perspective on the ideas of world humanitarianism and to extend them to the modern theoretical and folkloristic discourse, to emphasize mastery of current search methods in modeling, description and forecasting of various folklore phenomena. Abstract. The educational discipline is aimed at forming the professional skills of a scientist-researcher in students; critical analysis of modern folkloristic, cultural anthropological, literary, linguistic theories and methods of folklore text research. Its subject is the study of current problems related to the theory and practice of creating research projects in the field of folklore. The task of the discipline: to acquire basic knowledge and master the skills of independent in-depth analysis of various folklore phenomena, formulation and solution of project-analytical tasks in the field of professional activity.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Problems of interspecies synthesis in Ukrainian culture in the field of dialogues of different national cultural traditions: a collective monograph / [head. ed. H. Skrypnyk] ; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IMFE named after M. T. Rylskyi. Kyiv, 2019. 592 p. 2.Found O. S. Myth. Folklore. Image. Kyiv, 2016. 317 p. 3.Dmytrenko M. Ukrainian folkloristics: problems of methodology. Monograph Kyiv, 2015. 364 p. 4.Concepts of culture in the history of Ukrainian humanitarian thought of the XIX - XX centuries. Collective monograph. Edited by I. M. Yudkin. Kyiv, 2007 (NAS of Ukraine. IMFE named after M. T. Rylskyi. Ukrainian Committee of Slavists - Comprehensive study of the spiritual culture of the Slavs. Issue 3). 208 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course includes 2 content parts. The first part of the course is "Methods, approaches, theories and models of folklore analysis". The second part of the course is "The selective nature of the implementation of methods of various disciplines as approaches to solving analytical problems of the general folklore plan." Forms of education: lectures, seminars, scientific seminar, independent work. Throughout the semester, after the lectures on the relevant topics, seminar classes are held, which are evaluated according to the types of work (oral answer, supplement, report at a scientific seminar, blitz survey, participation in discussions at lectures and seminar classes, intermediate control test, credit) . A scientific seminar is held no later than the last lecture week, at which students present an independently prepared scientific report on one of the topical problems of modern folkloristics.
Assessment methods and criteria
Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for 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 overall assessment . Assessment of the semester work: oral answer, additions, participation in the discussion during the lecture, creative and research tasks: scientific (popular science article, review, digest), report - 48/80 p. Among them: oral answer, additions, participation in discussions at lectures and seminars, blitz survey, intermediate control test: 36/56 p. Scientific seminar presentation of a scientific report: 12/24 b. The discipline ends with a written assessment on 12/20 b.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian Language

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Liubov Mykolaiivna Kopanytsia
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