Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

FLS 201 — Verbal Folklore 1

FLS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• demonstrate a clear understanding of verbal, intangible folklore
• explain with examples what constitutes verbal folklore
• analyse verbal folklore
• collect, document and preserve verbal folklore; and
• transcribe and translate verbal folklore

Course contents

Oral poetry; panegyrics; invocations; incantations; lullabies; dirges; children songs; birth/naming song; marriage songs; professional crafts and guild songs; masquerade songs, love songs, initiation songs, insults and invective songs, proverbs, riddles, post- proverbial, tongue twisters.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study FLS 201.

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