The Three-Gorges folk songs are created by local working people during their long-term production and life practices. Due to the construction of Three-Gorges Dam and civilian resettlement, the environment where these long inherited folk songs emerge has encountered significant changes which greatly threatens the inheritance of traditional folk arts around this area. And in recent years, intangible cultural heritage project application has been used as one main method to protect regional music culture from extinction. Meanwhile, the joint track with education has formed a new trend which guides effective promotion of living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. Based on teaching practice of the Three-Gorges folk song "luoerdiao", which has been listed in Chinese national intangible cultural heritage, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses for music majors, the present research is conducted to explore the feasibility of introducing "luoerdiao" into public art courses of universities which would contribute to extension of their living inheritance, and hence foster more favorable environment for the inheritance and development of Three-Gorges folk songs and other arts as intangible cultural heritage.