This course is designed to give beginning folklorists a mixture of
theoretical information about how to conduct fieldwork and  practical
experience in actually doing fieldwork.  Unit I will consist of several
essential points on the basic theoretics of the fieldwork experience.  Unit
II will seek to prepare students for the field and will include the topic of
getting along in the library.  Research costs money and no project
preparation is complete until money is secured.  Thus, this unit will also
deal with methods of acquiring funding and writing grants.  Unit III will
deal with the actual work in the field and the various methods that may be
employed, such as interviewing, observing performance, using questionnaires,
analyzing printed sources, and the like.  Dealing with the collected data is
the concern of Unit IV and will consist of lectures on analysis, utilizing
card files, taking notes from resource books, synthesizing data, and
"writing up" results.  Unit V will consist of discussions on publishing
research results, while Unit VI will attempt to prepare students for
presenting papers at nationally organized conferences.