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Graduate Certificate in Folklore and Ethnography at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University, United States

Programme overview

This 15-credit graduate certificate program offered at Penn State Harrisburg provides students with skills and practices used in projects and institutions of folklore and ethnography, which include field/folk schools and other educational settings, festivals and arts councils, historical and heritage societies, community and cultural organizations and centers, archives and record management programs, governmental agencies, cultural conservation/sustainability groups, and media production companies.

Faculty: The Graduate School  |  Duration: 9 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: University Park, PA, United States

What you will study

The certificate requires 9 credits. Courses include Topics in American Folklore, Material Culture and Folklife 1, Ethnography and Society.

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Entry requirements

Applicants are expected to have 3.00 GPA or above in the last two years of undergraduate work in folklore, anthropology, sociology, American Studies, ethnic studies, history, communications, or other fields related to folklore and ethnography. Applicants should submit a 300-500 word statement of interest along with their application to the program. A student in the certificate program may also become a student in the M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies or M.A. in Communications, if the student meets criteria for admission to the Fox Graduate School and to the graduate program; however, successful completion of the certificate neither implies nor guarantees admission to a graduate program at Penn State.

Duration: 9 credits

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