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Folklore Certificate Program

**The Certificate program requires a minimum of 32 credits. **

1.) Folklore Core Courses – 12 credits (3 courses)
  • FLR 250 , Introduction to Folklore – 4 credits

Plus 2 courses, chosen from the following:

  • FLR 255, Folklore and US Popular Culture – 4 credits
  • AAD 250, Art and Human Values – 4 credits
  • ANTH 161, World Cultures – 4 credits

With the approval of their Folklore Certificate Advisor, students may substitute other courses to fulfill this requirement.

2.) Approved Electives – 20 credits
(All courses listed are 4 credits)
**One course must include fieldwork.

  • FLR 370, Folklore and Sexuality
  • FLR 407, Public Folklore
  • FLR 410, Folklore and the Supernatural
  • FLR 411, Folklore and Religion
  • FLR 412, Folklore of the Subcultures
  • FLR 413, Folk Art and Material Culture
  • FLR 416, African Folklore
  • FLR 418, Folklore and Gender
  • FLR 483, Folklore and Mythology of the British Isles
  • ENG 484, American Folklore
  • FLR 485, Film and Folklore
  • FLR 491, Anglo-American Ballad and Folk Song
  • AAD 410, Public Folklore and Cultural Programming
  • ANTH 315, Gender, Folklore, Inequality
  • ANTH 326, Caribbean Societies
  • ANTH 411, Politics, Ethnicity, Nationalism
  • ANTH 419, Performance, Politics and Folklore
  • ANTH 429, Jewish Folklore and Ethnology
  • ANTH 439, Feminism and Ethnography
  • ANTH 493, Anthropology and Popular Culture
  • ENG 482, Studies in Mythology
  • ENG 487, American Popular Literature and Culture

With the approval of their Folklore Certificate advisor, students may substitute folklore-related courses from other departments to fulfill this requirement, including classes from . . . Anthropology, Architecture, Arts & Administrations, Asian Studies, Classics, Dance, East Asian Language & Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, Geography, German Studies, History, Historic Preservation, International Studies, Japanese Studies, Journalism and Communication, Judaic Studies, Landscape Architecture, Music, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Scandinavian Studies, Sociology, Theatre Arts, Women's & Gender Studies


Folklore Program (541) 346-3911
Cathy O'Grady, Folklore Studies Secretary (541) 346-1505 ~ ogradyc@uoregon.edu
1287 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403