Department of Folklore Studies

Folklore today has developed into a highly specialized area of research. The Department of Folklore has taken up projects of complication of both oral and written texts and interpretation of the same from an interdisciplinary perspective. The department is functioning with the intention of finding and disseminating knowledge, which are unrecognized or hitherto marginalized (what can be called as desi, local knowledge). Field work, compilation, Analysis, Dialogue with the scholars in the field are the methods adopting to achieve the objective of the department.

Now the department is offering M.A., Ph.D. integrated course in Folklore. The department is also running Diploma course in. Folk Arts with the help of Distance education center and also running a journal called “Janapada Karnataka” which is acting as a platform for people who are working in Folklore in Kannada.

Other Departments at Kannada University, Hampi

• Department of Ancient History and Archaeology
• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Development Studies
• Department of Dravidian Studies
• Department of Epigraphy
• Department of Folklore Studies
• Department of History
• Department of Kannada Language Studies
• Department of Kannada Literature
• Department of Manuscriptology
• Department of Music and Dance
• Department of Sculpture and Paintings
• Department of Translation Studies
• Department of Tribal Studies
• Department of Women Studies