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.