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Number of Students Completing a Minor in Folklore during the 2011–12 Academic Year

Data Source and Other Information
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
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For context, see the overview of trends in students among all humanities disciplines, as well as the numbers across all disciplines from the HDS-1 population and the disciplines added with HDS-2. For more granular tabulations of the data for specific disciplines (typically providing numbers by Carnegie Classification type and institutional control), see the tables on juniors and seniors majoring in the disciplines of art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion); bachelor’s degrees (for art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion); and the number of students completing a minor in art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion.
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