PG Diploma in Folklore and Culture Studies PGDFCS
The Programme PG Diploma in Folklore and Culture Studies primarily focuses on time, geography, space and literature of the folklore and culture of the world in general, and of India in particular. The Programme aims to find out the relation between folk culture and context through various frameworks borrowed from disciplines such as Literature, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Folklore Studies and emerging disciplines such as Culture Studies. This Programme is a result of the interdisciplinary approach to the paradigms of knowledge. The Programme focuses on themes such as oral literature, material culture, social customs, performing arts, the theories and methods of folklore employed so far such as historical-geographical, historical-re-constructional, ideological, functional, psychoanalytical, cross-cultural,
structural and contextual— all of which demand an inter-disciplinary approach. The social relevance of the Programme may be categorized as:
- In a vast and diverse country like India, it is important that policy planners are sensitive to the impact of the developmental processes on the marginalized communities. This programme can contribute to that since it has two major concerns, first, to study the marginal society in their specificity, second, the impact of the contact with more complex societies on the marginal communities as tribes.
- This Programme seeks to address to that section of students who are not covered by formal education, mainly those students who seek to join the NGO circles or intend to pursue higher education in trans-disciplinary subjects
such as Ethnography, Migration Studies, Marginal Studies, etc. - It has the objective of appreciating culture and folklore in all their composite forms and of evaluating the social and political context in which culture manifests itself. It has the object of study and the location of political
criticism by its focal points such as Marginal Studies, Tribal and Folklore Literature, Language Death and Preservation, etc. - It has an obligation to an ethical appraisal of traditional as well as the modern society.
- Some of the important faculty in this Programme may be categorized as Critical Theory, Cultural Critic, Cultural Geography, Cultural History, Culture Theory, Ethnography, Feminism, Gender Studies, MuseumStudies, Orientalism,
Popular Culture Studies, Post-structuralism, Social Structuralism, Language Studies, History and Anthropology, etc.
Target Group
Any graduate who wants to enter tourism, archaeological development or management of museums, NGOs working for Tribal Rights, academic institutes offering programmes on Folklore and Culture Studies.
Eligibility: Graduate in any discipline.
Medium of Instruction: English
Duration: Minimum 1 year and Maximum 4 years; offered in both January & July cycle of admissions.
Fee Structure: Rs. 2,400/- for full programme
Programme Details:
| Course Code | Title of the Course | Credits | Download |
| MFC 1 | Folklore and Culture: Conceptual Perspectives | 6 | |
| MFC 2 | Tradition, Identity and Cultural Production | 6 | |
| MFC 3 | Cultural and Societal Transformation | 6 | |
| MFC 4 | Tribes of India: Identity, Culture and Folklore | 6 | |
| MFCI 5 | Project Manual | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 30 |