Drawing: acquiring fundamental knowledge and skills for figurative drawing. Short course of plastic anatomy. Live studio: drawing male and female nude using different techniques and modes of expression. Painting: acquiring fundamental knowledge in colour modeling, colour contrast, light situation. Colouring and mood. Pasting and glazing technique, grisaille. Abstraction, different painting styles. Painting a portrait. Painting a figure, incl. etude. Constructing a human figure, dynamics of a human body. Modeling a detail. Figure sketch, figure studio.

Folklore as a cultural phenomenon. Folklore and ethnography. Specifics of folklore text. Mythological and historical models of the world (the problem of time and space). Mythological genesis of Idaslaavi folk tales. History and myth in Russian epics and historical songs. Folklore and literary legend of the XII-XVII centuries. Old Russian literature and the history ("The Tale of Bygone Years," "The Word about Igor's Regiment," "The Legend of the Battle of Kulikovo," "The Life of Boris and Gleb," "The Life of Alexander Nevsky"). Christian apocrypha (legends about King Solomon, "The Virgin's Walking in Torments", a chronicle story about Ap. Andrew etc).

This course examines the ways in which economics, politics, and cultural practices intertwine. This course sees ‘the economy’ not as something distant and abstract, but rather as a set of relations that are deeply enmeshed with our everyday social lives. We will look at ethnographic studies that approach ‘economics’ as culturally conditioned, something structured through relations of ethnicity, class, citizenship, gender and age. Through this anthropological lens, money is not just a store of wealth - rather, money can carry emotional and ethical connotations. ‘Affluence’ is relative to our needs, ‘paid employment’ is not the only form of work, and debt is a complex web of obligations rather than a hole in our bank account. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which global migration and ‘bordering’ practices interact with neoliberal capitalism. The goal of this course is not to offer definitive answers or propose a ‘right’ form of economic practice, but rather to compel students to think critically about the worlds we inhabit. The format of the sessions will be akin to a Seminar or Reading Group. A student, or group of students, will commit themselves to doing an oral presentation on the assigned reading for the session. This presentation will be followed by a group discussion of the themes brought up during the oral report.

Scarcity of resources, opportunity cost, market, demand and supply The role of an enterprise in economy. Starting a business, life cycle, being an entrepreneur, risks and advantages. Business plan, role in starting a business, main parts of a business plan Different needs for submitting a business plan, bank, Unemployment Insurance Fund, private investor National economy, revenue and expenditure cycle, total demand and aggregate supply. Money and monetary policy. Economic cycles, GDP, unemployment and inflation. Government’s role in economy. Revenue and expenditure in the state budget. Fiscal policy in Estonia.

Throughout the course we address methods and problems of applying research in environmental anthropology to related development, conservation and human rights issues, and in particular this year we look at human adaptation to climate change among many other anthropological approaches on human-environment interactions. Each lecture is divided into two parts. The first part (~1,5 h) is held in a traditional lecture form, introducing the course topic. The second part of the lecture (~30 min) is reserved for a student presentation.

Grammar: Present tense, nominative, genitive, partitive, local cases, plural nominative, postpositions, imperative 2P Sg, imperfect and perfect, past perfect, comparison, translative, terminative, essive, comitative, abessive. Topics: Family, numbers, weekdays and months, shopping, food, holidays, weather, travelling in Estonia, clothing, eating out. The most important problems of Estonian culture are analyzed both in historical perspective as well as in relation to contemporary developments. The main stages in the development of Estonian culture, important persons. The relations of Estonian folklore, customs and beliefs with contemporaray Estonian society. Modern Estonian culture, media and culture, cultural establishments.