Featured Course: Topics: Ethnography
(Zoom & eLearning; October 13th – December 12th)
Bucks County Community College’s award-winning Historic Preservation program presents Topics: Ethnography, beginning the week of October 13th.
Join us as we explore what it means to write about culture! Using case studies and field work, this course blends the theories and practices that shape ethnographic research and how we document cultural heritage practices.
Dr. Charlie Groth holds a PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and authored Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery (University Press of Mississippi, 2019), which is anchored in over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork. She has taught courses in folklore studies; cultural anthropology; women’s folklore; workplace culture and communication; and tradition, culture, and change; among other subjects.
BCCC is open admission: everyone is welcome to take our courses. Though most of our historic preservation students already have degrees, anyone with a passion for preservation and history is welcome!
The course may be taken “audit” or for a grade; courses successfully completed for a grade can be applied to our occupational Historic Preservation Certificate, designed to enable students to “do” the work of preservation in their communities anywhere in the country.
The Bucks HP program is a Shared program for community colleges: everyone in Pennsylvania takes our courses for in-county or non-sponsored tuition rates (based on location).