Studying folklore gives you the possibility to
- learn to observe the vital folklore that surrounds us,
- become aware of yourself as a bearer and transmitter of cultural memory,
- gain new information about human creativity, folk culture and traditions,
- think along with our teaching staff and frequent international guest lecturers,
- answer questions as yet unanswered in folkloristics,
- analyse the centuries-old texts held at the Estonian Folklore Archives in the light of new approaches,
- formulate new research questions,
- discover new folklore genres on the internet,
- conduct fieldwork interviews and later to contemplate them,
- learn to study cultural continuity and the diversity of cultures,
- join other folklore and ethnology students in the Tartu NEFA group and take part in NEFA parties,
- see the world in a new way and to perceive the connections between theory and real life,
- sense connections, which you could not sense before university, but which are of use in later life when employed as a cultural worker, a museum worker, an academic, a teacher, or whatever you want.
