Title: The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University

URL: http://cfs.osu.edu/

Description: The Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University supports the learning, teaching, research, and outreach of folklorists and students of folklore. With participation from across the colleges of Arts and Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Education and Human Ecology, the Center provides OSU folklorists with a network for cooperation and interdisciplinary dialogue.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Arts,  Humanities,  Social Sciences,  Behavioral Sciences,  Education,  Human Ecology

Title: The Folklore Program at the University of Oregon

URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~flr/

Description: The Folklore Program at the University of Oregon offers perspectives on ethnic, regional, occupational, gender, and other traditional identities of individuals in specific societies. Students study the extent to which tradition continues to enrich and express the dynamics of human behavior throughout the world.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Videos: 2 Videos Captured

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Ethnicity,  Cultural Heritage,  Popular Culture,  Performance,  Gender,  Film,  Religion,  Diversity,  Arts Administration,  Globalization

Title: The University of Wisconsin Folklore Program

URL: http://folklore.wisc.edu/

Description: The dynamic and ever-emergent Folklore Program engages varied comparative and interdisciplinary approaches in a broad range of courses on oral, material, social, and spiritual aspects of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, European, American Indian, North, Central, and South American folklore, on theory and the history of scholarship, and on the public presentation of folklore through archives, exhibits, festivals, media productions, and other modes of representation.

Captured  on Jan 27, 2012

Videos: 3 Videos Captured

Subject:   Folklore,  Post-Secondary Education,  Cultural Expression,  Oral Histories,  Spirituality,  Language,  Ethnography

Title: The American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg

URL: http://harrisburg.psu.edu/hum/amst/

Description: The American Studies Program at Penn State Harrisburg integrates perspectives on United States history, culture, and society and represents a vibrant academic field with its own theories, methods, and applications. The Program emphasizes cultural and historical inquiry and the application of American Studies to public policy and heritage --including education, governmental work, museums, cultural agencies, archives, public policy, and communications.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Folk Culture,  Ethnography,  Cultural Heritage,  Popular Culture,  Ethnicity,  Race,  Gender,  Age,  Performance,  Oral Histories

Title: Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore

URL: http://www.mun.ca/folklore/

Description: The Memorial University of Newfoundland is the only Anglophone university in Canada to offer comprehensive folklore programs at all levels. Memorial University is also a vital part of its community - one steeped in unique lifestyles and traditions, and where the study and celebration of culture and heritage is considered crucial. This provides folklorists with rich opportunities for innovative community partnerships and learning experiences.

Captured  on Jan 20, 2012

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Folklore,  Canada,  Ethnography,  Women's Studies,  Arts Administration,  Oral Histories,  Music,  Folksongs,  Childlore,  Language,  Popular Culture

Title: The University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife

URL: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/

Description: The Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania began in 1962 under the direction of MacEdward Leach, a medievalist who taught in the English department, and whose sound recordings from Jamaica, Newfoundland, and the Southern Mountains launched the Folklore Archive. Over the next four decades nearly 250 students earned the Ph.D. in Folklore from Penn. In 1999, the Department of Folklore and Folklife was restructured as a Graduate Program and a Center for Folklore and Ethnography (open 1999-2008).

Captured  on Mar 30, 2012

Videos: 4 Videos Captured

Subject:   Folklore,  Folklife,  Post-Secondary Education,  Music,  Performance,  Folk Art,  Cultural Studies,  Popular Culture,  Film,  Religion,  Urban Folklore,  Anthropology,  Oral Histories

Title: Georgia State University Heritage Preservation Program

URL: http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwher/

Description: The Georgia State University Master of Heritage Preservation Program offers compelling opportunities to pursue careers relating to the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of the physical past.

Captured  on Jan 27, 2012

Videos: 2 Videos Captured

Subject:   Post-Secondary Education,  Cultural Conservation,  Heritage,  Architectural History,  Urban History