The Folklore Program at the University of California, Berkeley
trains intellectual leaders in folkloristics for the twenty-first
century. We seek to provide a deep, critical, and
theoretically-informed reading of folklore scholarship from the
seventeenth century through the present. We urge students to
develop a particular field of expertise in folkloristics. At the
same time, we advise our graduate students to develop strong
grounding in another discipline or multidisciplinary perspective,
such as race and ethnic studies, performance studies, science
studies, rhetoric, narrative theory, ethnomusicology, materiality,
women's and queer theory, and others, in order to bring new
perspectives to their work in folkloristics.
The Dominique chinn nude permits students to specialize in
folklore while pursuing a PhD in a UC Berkeley department or
program.
The following minimum requirements apply to all graduate
programs and will be verified by the Graduate Division:
A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited
institution;
A grade point average of B or better (3.0);
If the applicant has completed a basic degree from a country or
political entity (e.g., Quebec) where English is not the official
language, adequate proficiency in English to do graduate work, as
evidenced by a TOEFL score of at least 90 on the iBT test, 570 on
the paper-and-pencil test, or an IELTS Band score of at least 7 on
a 9-point scale (note that individual programs may set higher
levels for any of these); and
Sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in the
given field.
Applicants Who Already Hold a Graduate Degree
The Graduate Council views academic degrees not as vocational
training certificates, but as evidence of broad training in
research methods, independent study, and articulation of learning.
Therefore, applicants who already have academic graduate degrees
should be able to pursue new subject matter at an advanced level
without the need to enroll in a related or similar graduate
program.
Programs may consider students for an additional academic
master’s or professional master’s degree only if the additional
degree is in a distinctly different field.
Applicants admitted to a doctoral program that requires a
master’s degree to be earned at Berkeley as a prerequisite (even
though the applicant already has a master’s degree from another
institution in the same or a closely allied field of study) will be
permitted to undertake the second master’s degree, despite the
overlap in field.
The Graduate Division will admit students for a second doctoral
degree only if they meet the following guidelines:
Applicants with doctoral degrees may be admitted for an
additional doctoral degree only if that degree program is in a
general area of knowledge distinctly different from the field in
which they earned their original degree. For example, a physics PhD
could be admitted to a doctoral degree program in music or history;
however, a student with a doctoral degree in mathematics
would not be permitted to add a PhD in statistics.
Applicants who hold the PhD degree may be admitted to a
professional doctorate or professional master’s degree program if
there is no duplication of training involved.
Applicants may apply only to one single degree program or
one concurrent degree program per admission cycle.
Required Documents for Applications
Transcripts: Applicants may
upload unofficial transcripts with your
application for the departmental initial review. Unofficial
transcripts must contain specific information including the name of
the applicant, name of the school, all courses, grades, units, &
degree conferral (if applicable).
Letters of recommendation: Applicants may
request online letters of recommendation through the online
application system. Hard copies of recommendation letters must be
sent directly to the program, by the recommender, not the Graduate
Admissions.
Evidence
of English language proficiency: All applicants who
have completed a basic degree from a country or political entity in
which the official language is not English are required to submit
official evidence of English language proficiency. This applies to
institutions from Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin
America, the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan,
Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, most European countries, and Quebec
(Canada). However, applicants who, at the time of application, have
already completed at least one year of full-time academic course
work with grades of B or better at a US university may submit an
official transcript from the US university to fulfill this
requirement. The following courses will not fulfill this
requirement:
courses
in English as a Second Language,
courses
conducted in a language other than English,
courses
that will be completed after the application is submitted,
and
courses
of a non-academic nature.
Applicants
who have previously applied to Berkeley must also submit new test
scores that meet the current minimum requirement from one of the
standardized tests. Official TOEFL score reports must be sent
directly from Educational Test Services (ETS). The institution code
for Berkeley is 4833 for Graduate Organizations. Official IELTS
score reports must be sent electronically from the testing center
to University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division, Sproul
Hall, Rm 318 MC 5900, Berkeley, CA 94720. TOEFL and IELTS score
reports are only valid for two years prior to beginning the
graduate program at UC Berkeley. Note: score reports can not
expire before the month of June.
Our students possess a broad range of humanities and social
science backgrounds as well as from the natural sciences and other
fields. Previous coursework in folkloristics is not required. All
that is needed is a strong undergraduate record and the desire to
excel.
The Folklore Program requires one to two copies of your official
transcript, a statement of purpose, a personal statement, and a
critical writing sample. GRE scores are optional.
The student must demonstrate
proficiency in reading at least one foreign language by the time he
or she advances to candidacy. The language is selected in
consultation with the chair or graduate adviser; in most cases, it
is the language most closely connected with the MA thesis. The
language requirement is ordinarily satisfied by an examination in
which the student translates a passage from an academic text in
their language of choice into English.
MA thesis based upon fieldwork or some other research project.
(No course credits are allowed for the thesis). Theses are directed
by a Thesis Committee consisting of at least three faculty members,
one of whom does not belong to the Folklore Graduate Group. The
committee chair and inside member must be members of the Graduate
Group; a co-chair from another department or program may be named
when appropriate.
The Designated Emphasis in Folklore permits students to
specialize in folklore while pursuing a PhD in a UC Berkeley
department or program. The DE seeks to train future leaders in the
field of folklore by assisting students in developing their own
critical, theoretically-informed reading of folklore scholarship
from the seventeenth century through the present, developing
sophisticated analyses of traditional cultural forms and how they
are imbricated in producing modernities, and juxtaposing
folkloristic approaches with perspectives emerging from their home
disciplines in shaping interdisciplinary exchanges of ideas and
development of rigorous research that challenges epistemological
boundaries.
Upon successful completion of the dissertation, the student's
diploma and transcript will include the designation: "PhD in
[major] with a Designated Emphasis in Folklore."
To be admitted to the program, applicants must already be
accepted into an existing PhD program at Berkeley (Master's
students and students at other institutions are not eligible).
Graduate students are strongly urged to apply early in their third
semester, but applications will be considered at any time prior to
completion of the qualifying examinations.
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Folklore (unless the applicant has taken an equivalent introduction
to the discipline). It is strongly recommended that students take
at least one course in their home department that focuses on
research techniques.
The student's qualifying examination committee and dissertation
committee must have one member of the DE faculty.
UCB doctoral students who wish to apply to the Designated
Emphasis in Folklore Program are welcome to contact the Chair
and/or Graduate Adviser. Applications and details regarding
admissions process are available from the Folklore Graduate Student
Affairs Officer, Tabea Mastel (tmastel@berkeley.edu;
510-642-3406).
Terms
offered: Spring 2011, Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Spring 2006
This course examines a broad range of theories that elucidate the
formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in
relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and
fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. It focuses on
narratives at work, on the move, in action as they emerge from the
matrix of the everyday preeminently, storytelling in
conversation--as key to folk genres--the folktale, thelegend, the epic, the myth. Shemale full porn
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of
seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Terms
offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and
modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and
political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson,
Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo,
Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works
published between the 17th century and the present--along with
philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--interms of how they are imbricated within and
help produce traditionalities and modernities. The girl next door on top
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of
instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit
with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of
seminar per week
Terms
offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and
modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and
political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson,
Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo,
Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works
published between the 17th century and the present--along with
philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--interms of how they are imbricated within and
help produce traditionalities and modernities. Nudes nudes nudes
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit
with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of
seminar per week
Terms
offered: Prior to 2007
This seminar focuses on artworks made by migrating peoples
chronicling their journeys (Hmong storycloths, Aztec codices), and
artworks made by others who made migration a major theme (Dorothea
Lange photographer of dustbowl migrants to California, Jacob
Lawrence chronicler of the migration north of African Americans).
Also, we focus on the arts of traditional communities that base
their artifact production on longstanding, ecologically localized
and distinctivepractices. Issues
include nostalgia, memory, trauma; cultural heritage the selection
of what is to be seen, remembered, recoiled from, embraced, what is
to be taught to future generations/outsiders concerning fear,
courage, pride, self-definitions, accusations, and
authenticity. Lily adams naked
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of
seminar per week
Terms
offered: Not yet offered
Collaboration in ethnographic praxis on a local and global scale in
folkloristics, sociocultural, linguistic, media, and medical
anthropology, producing projects grounded in meaningful engagement
with communities. Graduate students, working with lay mentors and
faculty, will design and begin implementation of projects that
break through infrastructures of theory, research, pedagogy, and
practice that reproduce racial hierarchies and that erase
anti-racist alternatives.
David Bamman, Associate
Professor. Natural language processing and cultural
analytics, applying NLP and machine learning to empirical questions
in the humanities and social sciences. Samantha fox sexy pics
Robert Braun, Assistant
Professor. Comparative historical sociology; peace,
war, and social conflict; social movements and collective
behavior. Stepfanie kramer naked
Charles L. Briggs,
Professor. Linguistic and medical anthropology,
social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and
violence. Miko lee nude pics
Mia Fuller, Associate
Professor. Anthropology, Italy, fascism, urban design,
architecture, Italian colonialism. James charles leaks
Andrew Garrett,
Professor. Karuk and Yurok (languages of northern
California) and on early Indo-European languages, especially Greek,
Latin, and languages belonging to the Anatolian branch (such as
Hittite and Lycian). Lexi sindel clips
Peter Glazer, Associate
Professor. Theater, commemorative practices, 20th
century American theater and culture, political performance,
directing and directing theory. Peta jensen sexy
Ronald Hendel,
Professor. Textual criticism, Hebrew bible, ancient
Near Eastern religion and mythology, Northwest Semitic
linguistics. Carribean princess pictures
Rosemary Joyce,
Professor. Latin America, anthropology, cultural
heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central
America, feminism. Abella danger boob job
Margaretta M. Lovell,
Professor. Architecture, design, American art. Gucci blue onlyfans
Minoo Moallem,
Professor. Postcolonial and transnational feminist
theories, immigration and diaspora studies, feminist cultural
studies, Middle Eastern studies, Iranian cultural politics and
diasporas. Busty latina models
Bryan Wagner, Professor.
African American expression in the context of slavery and its
aftermath, legal history, vernacular culture, urban studies, and
digital humanities. Katarina witt sexy
Laurie Wilkie,
Professor. Anthropology, historical archaeology,
oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and
gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean
Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic
community. Maki hojo uncensored
Emeritus Faculty
Ronelle Alexander, Professor
Emeritus. Slavic languages and literatures, Balkan
Slavic dialectology, Balkan linguistics, language contact, oral
tradition, Parry-Lord theory of oral composition, South Slavic epic
singers, issues of language and identity. Teen leaked photos
Stanley H. Brandes, Professor
Emeritus. Cultural anthropology, ritual and religion,
food and drink, alcohol use, visual anthropology, Mediterranean
Europe, Latin America, Spain, Mexico. Moon dailly nude
Benjamin Brinner, Professor
Emeritus. Indonesia, Java, Bali, Israel, musical
memory, situated musical cognition, musical interaction,
improvisation, gamelan, music and oral narrative. Keke lou nude
John Lindow, Professor
Emeritus. Old Norse-Icelandic literature, Scandinavian
folklore, Finno-Ugric folklore, Pre-Christian religion of the
North, Scandinavian mythology. Jeanne tripplehorn images
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