Course code

SKK6006.HT

old course code

SKK6006

Course title in Estonian

Rahvaluule ja mütoloogia

Course title in English

Folklore and Mythology

ECTS credits

3.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To give knowledge about mythology and folklore as the phenomena of culture in their genetic relation; to show specificity of the folklore text; to show genetical and typological relations between the mythology, folklore and the literature.

Brief description of the course

Mythology and folklore as phenomena of culture. Folklore and ethnography. Specificity of the folklore text. Genres of folklore. Poetics and genesis of a magic fairy tale. Poetics and genesis of the epos. A “world tree” (arbor mundi) and its transformations in folklore and the literature. A myth and ritual. Slavic mythology and history of Slavs. Mythology and christianity. Calendar and family rituals. A folk theatre. Children's folklore. Modern city folklore. Folklore and mythology in literature of XIX-XXth centuries.
Independent work: preparation of abstracts, performance at seminars, study of educational and scientific literature.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
Knowing mythological and folkloric texts, understanding mythological (folkloric) world outlook and its specific details as well as the role of myth and floklore in cultural and literary process developement.

Teacher

Dots. Sergei Dotsenko, PhD

Study programmes containing that course

Russian Philology (SKVB/00.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/11.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11_1.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/11_2.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10E.HT)
Slavonic Languages and Cultures (SKSLM/11.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_1.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/10_2.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/10.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/09.HT)
Slavonic Languages and Cultures (SKSLM/10.HT)
Humanities (KKHB/08.HT)
Russian Philology (SKVB/08.HT)
Russian Language as a Foreign Language (SKVVB/08.HT)