Centre For Nordic Studies - Two Courses In Orkney and Shetland

25th March 2008

Why not combine both our summer schools in a two centre holiday?

Summer Schools 2008

ORKNEY

Title: Orkney Cultural Traditions and Folklore

Level: SCQF 7

Duration: 5 days - Time: 10-4pm

Venue: Orkney College - Date: 7th to 11th July

Tutors: Dr Donna Heddle et al.

Cost: £300

Qualification: none needed

Target audience: Adults with an interest in Orkney culture

Course content:
This course will involve five mornings of lectures in various aspects of Orkney's culture - from literature and language through folklore and history to archaeology. Field trips will take place every afternoon, accompanied by expert guides, and there will be a musical evening.

SHETLAND

Title: - Shetland Cultural Traditions

Level: - SCQF 7

Duration: - 5 days - Time: 10-4pm

Venue: - Shetland Museum and Archives - Date: 14th to 18th July

Tutors: Dr Donna Heddle et al.

Cost: £300

Qualification: none needed

Target audience: Adults with an interest in Shetland's culture

Course content:
This course will involve five mornings of lectures in various aspects of Shetland's culture - from literature and language through folklore and history to archaeology. Field trips will take place every afternoon, accompanied by expert guides, and there will be a musical evening.

CONTACT:
Dr. Donna Heddle
Orkney College
East Road
Kirkwall
KW15 1LX

Tel: 01856 569000
E-mail: - Donna.Heddle[AT]orkney.uhi.ac.uk

About The Centre For Nordis Studies
The Orkney and Shetland Islands, along with Caithness on the Scottish mainland, are identified primarily in terms of their Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage.

They are positioned at the centre of the Nordic world and therefore combine a wealth of archaeological and cultural heritage with a reasonable degree of accessibility for scholars from Nordic countries, as well as Scotland, England, Canada, Germany, and USA. A new interdisciplinary Centre for Nordic Studies with a campus in Kirkwall and one in Lerwick has therefore been created.

The new Centre for Nordic Studies promotes the following: preservation of organic heritage; increased community involvement in the generation and study of local heritage in all its forms; and further development of cultural and academic tourism with its concomitant impact on the community. Employment opportunities are being created in an area hitherto not available in Orkney and Shetland. Partnerships have been forged with the Universities of Iceland, Faroe Islands, Nottingham, and Copenhagen in particular to explore the history and culture of the North Atlantic Rim.

A taught MLitt in Highlands and Islands Literature is under development.
PhD studentships in interdisciplinary Nordic Studies are available.
Credit bearing summer schools in Orkney and Shetland culture available from 2007.
Accommodation for visiting scholars is also available.

The Centre aims to be of service to academics worldwide, to undergraduate and postgraduate students, to interested members of the public, and, perhaps most pertinently in the context of the archive, to the people of the Orkney and Shetland Islands and Caithness, who will have access to, and ownership of, the practical expressions of their culture and identity.