Students are introduced to folkloristics in an Icelandic and international context, adopt an ethnological perspective on society, and learn how to apply ethnological methods in independent research. They will also gain a solid foundation in the history of the discipline.
Emphasis is placed on the ways in which people shape their own lives and environments in conditions which are beyond their control.
The programme is 30 ECTS and can be completed in one semester of full-time study or one year of part-time study.
Students select 30 ECTS of restricted electives from the graduate-level folkloristics courses offered.
Course topics include:
All folkloristics courses can be completed through distance learning. Lectures are recorded and temporarily accessible through a closed website for distance students.
This programme is taught in Icelandic but most textbooks are in English or other foreign languages.
The micro-credential aims to provide students with a theoretical and practical education in the subject, allowing them to specialise in a chosen area.
Students who complete the micro-credential with a first class grade may apply for the Master's programme.
BA, BS, B.Ed. degree or equivalent qualification.
30 ECTS credits must be completed for the qualification. The programme is structured as 30 ECTS credits in restricted elective courses in folkloristics/ethnology at a graduate level (M- or F-courses).
Further information on supporting documents can be found here
Check below to see how the programme is structured.
This programme does not offer specialisations.
This course examines the physical, cultural and environmental interactions, solutions, innovations, and adaptations of humans living in extreme environments on the Earth’s surface, under its oceans, and in outer space. We will explore the challenges, responses, strategies, and solutions that have emerged, and consider their implications for humanity’s future in a rapidly changing climate on a warming planet.
Performance Studies is the study of how humans create meaning and identity through shared activities ranging from traditional ritual and religion to storytelling and the arts as well as sports, stand-up comedy, festivals, masking traditions, civic ceremonies, political action and protest, dinner parties, and the virtual world. The course introduces students to theories about the wide range of semiotics involved in performance, from spoken text, to costume and appearance, expression and gesture, gender, social contexts, timing and use of space, as well as audience reception.
The course covers recent writings and currents of thought that mark, or are likely to mark, turning points in social and cultural theory. Particular care will be taken to situate theories in their historical and social contexts. Attendance to weekly 40 min. discussion classes throughout the course is compulsory. Distance learning students attend in person or via the Internet (with Zoom).
This course introduces the ways in which the fields and methods of folklore/ethnology are and may be put to use, how their application may help broaden and deepen public debates and positively affect society's self-understanding and self-fashioning. We discuss how folklore/ethnology may be put to use in tourism, museums, arts and various media. One area of focus is also the accessibility and uses of folklore collections. We explore, moreover, various scholarly and popular genres in which the conclusions of ethnological research (based on historical sources, interviews and other fieldwork methods) may be disseminated: exhibitions, festivals, events, articles, books, websites, radioshows or documentaries. Different means of reaching different groups of people will be discussed and moral, financial and political issues will be addressed.
The course will partly be taught in intensive workshops, 3 days at the beginning of the semester in Reykjavík and 4 days during project week in Hólmavík in the Westfjords. Students will work on projects in applied ethnology/public folklore. There will be no final exam.
Course Description
What can the making of the old Icelandic dairy product “skyr” tell us about how Icelandic society has developed for more than a thousand years? How does the microbiome affect health? How do we dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly way within an urban context and what silent majority of earthlings makes it happen? Microbial communities have shaped the earth and its inhabitants for eons, from the dawn of life on earth. To better understand and deal with the environmental, health, and social challenges of the 21st century, we need to better understand these first organisms and the symbiosis between them and other species, including humans. Recent studies reveal that more than half of the cells in our bodies belong to a variety of microbial species. Does that mean humans are microbes, or “merely” that our relationship with microbes is the strongest and most intimate relationship we have with others? The course invites students to explore the symbiotic practices of microbes and humans from various angles, from microbiology and ethnology, food and nutrition sciences and anthropology. Special attention will be given to the role of microbes in developing and preserving food in human societies, as well as their role in digestion, and how these roles are connected to human mental and physical health. The course also explores how microbes sustain vital nutrient cycles and their ability to transform garbage and waste into healthy soil.
The course works with the concept of „One Health“ which has been in development for the past couple of decades. One Health is a transdisciplinary and collaborative paradigm that recognizes the shared environment and interconnection between people, animals, plants and microbes. The approach promotes health and wellbeing for humans, animals and the environment, emphasizing coordination, communication, and joint efforts across disciplines. The topic will be explored through different examples of microbial-human relations such as how microbes affect the taste of food and its composition, how diets affect gut microbiota, the role of fermentation in shaping microbial-human relations and how urban waste management disrupts nutrition cycles in the human environment.
Relations between humans and animals are the focus of this course, which will be approached from both an academic and an artistic standpoint. Students will complete independent projects on an animal of their choice and attend field trips in nature and museums. The lectures will focus on diverse animals, such as polar bears, whales, great auks and puffins and recent scholarship on them. We will dig into visual and material representations of these, and other, animals in varied cultural contexts, including medieval literature, folktales, oral tradition, film, news reports, material culture and tourism. Consideration will be given to the idea of an “afterlife” of animals in the form of artworks, museum artefacts and souvenirs. We will examine artefacts in both private and public collections and pose the questions of what happens when a living animal is turned into a museum object, and how the meaning that we bestow upon an animal can be subject to development and change under different circumstances. The role of animals in the creation of knowledge and formation of discourse surrounding climate change and issues of the Arctic regions will also be addressed, in addition to animals’ connections to specific places and cultural groups and their role in identity formations of past and present. An attempt will be made to step outside of “traditional” dualism in which an emphasis is placed on distinctions between humans and animals as we acquaint ourselves with the ways in which human/animal (ecological, social and cultural) habitats are intertwined.
Aim
The aim is to explore urgent questions and topical issues regarding human/animal co-existence, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental sustainability. We will consider how artists, researchers, activists and museums have been engaging with these questions and how they can further contribute to the discussion. We will examine how diverse museums convey their ideas and information on human/animal relations through their collections. Students will be encouraged to critically engage with visual material, objects and texts, both online and through visits to museums and exhibitions.
From the 21st - 24th of June 2021, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) will hold its biennial congress in Helsinki, Finland. Ethnologists and folklorists from all over Europe and beyond will gather there, professors, researchers, editors, graduate students, and museum professionals, to present the latest research, debate ideas, broaden the horizon and enjoy the company of like-minded colleagues.
The SIEF congress is an intellectual festival where we showcase the state of the art in our fields and it is a ritual time in the academic calendar, crucial for carrying the fields forward, building professional networks, hatching collaborative projects, and cultivating friendships. This year, there will be over 800 participants presenting over 700 papers in over 80 panels, plus dozens of films and posters.
In this seminar we will examine the congress program, get to know the keynote speakers, dig into particular panels selected by seminar participants, analyze the congress theme, consider the society itself, map different disciplinary traditions and emphases in the countries of Europe and take stock of what is happening in the field right now. The seminar will also prepare participants to take part in the congress and those who will be presenting a paper or a poster there will have a dress rehearsal in Oddi.
The seminar meets once a week for two class hours at a time and is open to graduate students and teachers. Course evaluation will be based, on the one hand, on active and informed participation in the seminar and on projects prepared over the course of the semester (5 ECTS) and, on the other hand, on participation in the congress itself and a congress report that is due after it (5 ECTS). Students will need to finance their participation in the congress. It is possible to take the seminar without going to the congress (5 ECTS only).
Everybody need to eat; food connects nature to culture, culture to industry, the public to the private, the local to the global, the home to the workplace, the past to the present and one person to another in relationships that organize and transcend the axes of class, gender, ethnicity, race and age. The study of food demonstrates that food is always laden with meaning that exceeds its nutritional value and that this meaning is central to understanding the relationship between food and people, one of the more important relationships we have with the world. Food habits thus reveal our views, values and aestethics, and food shapes our existence, bodies, memories, society, economy and ethics.
In the course we will explore what people eat, how, when, with whom and why. Doing so provides us with valuable insights regarding gender and generations, food safety and health, sustainability and human rights, class and cultural diversity, sense and sensibility, technology and food production, food and diet trends, food traditions and cultural heritage, emotions and microbes, friendship and family dynamics.
In the course we explore the relationship between food production and consumption in the 21st century with specific emphasis on public health, ethical consumption and sustainability.
Food and culture is an interdisciplinary course taught in cooperation between the Department of Folkloristics/Ethnology and Museum Studies and the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition.
The field of Folklore, emerging out of the phenomena collectively referred to as Modernity, has a complicated and problematic relationship with gender, both in the material that circulates and the subsequent academic treatment of that material. This seminar combines theoretical perspectives from Gender Studies and Folkloristics to better understand the interconnectedness of popular cultural forms, analyses, and the operations of power, specifically gender relations. Beginning with a feminist critique of Folkloristics from within (a historical reference point), we will examine more recent work on the relationship between gender and genre, between the empowering acts of ordinary rituals (so-called women‘s genres), and how the old, debunked Nature/Culture divide, in which women‘s genres were debased and denigrated, may, looked at from a different perspective, suggest alternate approaches to some contemporary global issues.
Teacher of the course: JoAnn Conrad
An examination will be made of the religious beliefs and practices of people in Scandinavia from the earliest of times until the conversion, material ranging from burial practices to rock carvings, to the written evidence given in the works of Tacitus, Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, as well as in early Icelandic works like the Eddic poems and the Kings' sagas. Alongside this discussion of the development and key features of Old Norse religion, some attention will be paid to the concepts of seid and shamanism, especially in connection to their role in early religions. Finally, an examination will be made of the conversion of Scandinavia and how Christian concepts and practices both fitted and contrasted with the previously dominant Old Norse worldview.
Teaching format
This course introduces the ways in which the fields and methods of folklore/ethnology are and may be put to use, how their application may help broaden and deepen public debates and positively affect society's self-understanding and self-fashioning. We discuss how folklore/ethnology may be put to use in tourism, museums, arts and various media. One area of focus is also the accessibility and uses of folklore collections. We explore, moreover, various scholarly and popular genres in which the conclusions of ethnological research (based on historical sources, interviews and other fieldwork methods) may be disseminated: exhibitions, festivals, events, articles, books, websites, radioshows or documentaries. Different means of reaching different groups of people will be discussed and moral, financial and political issues will be addressed.
The course will partly be taught in intensive workshops, 3 days at the beginning of the semester in Reykjavík and 4 days during project week in Hólmavík in the Westfjords. Students will work on projects in applied ethnology/public folklore. There will be no final exam.
What is cultural heritage and what purpose does it serve? Why does it always seem to be endangered? How does it tie together the past and the present? What's it got to do with the nation and the state? Historical consciousness? Globalization? Capitalism? Politics? The course will seek to answer these questions with reference to new research in folklore, ethnology, anthropology, art history, sociology, museology, history and archaeology and with a view to understanding what is going on in this expanding field of study.
Albert B Lord's theory on oral poetry from The Singer of Tales forms a basis for the course. Research that has appeared since the writing of that book will be discussed and an attempt made to evaluate the influence that the theory has had on research of medieval literature that is partly based on oral tradition. In the latter half of the course the focus will be on the Eddic Poems.
International conferences focusing on ethnology and folklore, where the latest research in the field is presented are held regularly. Scholars from all over the world come together to talk about their own projects, discuss ideas, broaden their horizons, enjoy the company of people in the same field, and outline possible collaborations.
In June 2026 The International Society for Folk Narrative Research will hold an international conference in Reykjavík. In this seminar, we will delve into the ins and outs of international academic conferences, with a focus on these two conferences. We will introduce key speakers, delve into individual seminars according to the participants' areas of interest, examine themes, reflect on the organizations behind them, map different traditions and emphases in ethnography in European countries, and take the pulse of what is happening in the field right now. At the same time, the seminar prepares participants to participate in such a conference. The seminar meets once a week for two class hours at a time.
Students are encouraged to participate in the conference and in return gain 5 ECTS credits; see ÞJÓ210M Conference participation.
International conferences focusing on ethnology and folklore, where the latest research in the field is presented are held regularly. Scholars from all over the world come together to talk about their own projects, discuss ideas, broaden their horizons, enjoy the company of people in the same field, and outline possible collaborations.
In June 2026 The International Society for Folk Narrative Research will hold an international conference in Reykjavík. Following a seminar course, where the ins and outs of international academic conferences are presented, students have the opportunity to participate in this conference and turn in a report (5 ECTS).
Students will need to finance their participation in the congress, but we point out that the Icelandic Society of Ethnology and Folklore sometimes advertises a travel fund in connection with conferences of this type. It is often possible to get reimbursement from the union, and doctoral students can apply for a doctoral student travel fund.
This course is a continuation of the undargraduate course ÞJÓ605G Sowing seeds: Dissemination and career development. The focus here is on the dissemination of folkloristic knowledge. Students learn to present both themselves and their field in public contexts, in written and spoken forms both in person and online. The course is project-based, with students working on small projects consistently throughout the semester.
This course examines the physical, cultural and environmental interactions, solutions, innovations, and adaptations of humans living in extreme environments on the Earth’s surface, under its oceans, and in outer space. We will explore the challenges, responses, strategies, and solutions that have emerged, and consider their implications for humanity’s future in a rapidly changing climate on a warming planet.
Performance Studies is the study of how humans create meaning and identity through shared activities ranging from traditional ritual and religion to storytelling and the arts as well as sports, stand-up comedy, festivals, masking traditions, civic ceremonies, political action and protest, dinner parties, and the virtual world. The course introduces students to theories about the wide range of semiotics involved in performance, from spoken text, to costume and appearance, expression and gesture, gender, social contexts, timing and use of space, as well as audience reception.
The course covers recent writings and currents of thought that mark, or are likely to mark, turning points in social and cultural theory. Particular care will be taken to situate theories in their historical and social contexts. Attendance to weekly 40 min. discussion classes throughout the course is compulsory. Distance learning students attend in person or via the Internet (with Zoom).
This course introduces the ways in which the fields and methods of folklore/ethnology are and may be put to use, how their application may help broaden and deepen public debates and positively affect society's self-understanding and self-fashioning. We discuss how folklore/ethnology may be put to use in tourism, museums, arts and various media. One area of focus is also the accessibility and uses of folklore collections. We explore, moreover, various scholarly and popular genres in which the conclusions of ethnological research (based on historical sources, interviews and other fieldwork methods) may be disseminated: exhibitions, festivals, events, articles, books, websites, radioshows or documentaries. Different means of reaching different groups of people will be discussed and moral, financial and political issues will be addressed.
The course will partly be taught in intensive workshops, 3 days at the beginning of the semester in Reykjavík and 4 days during project week in Hólmavík in the Westfjords. Students will work on projects in applied ethnology/public folklore. There will be no final exam.
Course Description
What can the making of the old Icelandic dairy product “skyr” tell us about how Icelandic society has developed for more than a thousand years? How does the microbiome affect health? How do we dispose of waste in an environmentally friendly way within an urban context and what silent majority of earthlings makes it happen? Microbial communities have shaped the earth and its inhabitants for eons, from the dawn of life on earth. To better understand and deal with the environmental, health, and social challenges of the 21st century, we need to better understand these first organisms and the symbiosis between them and other species, including humans. Recent studies reveal that more than half of the cells in our bodies belong to a variety of microbial species. Does that mean humans are microbes, or “merely” that our relationship with microbes is the strongest and most intimate relationship we have with others? The course invites students to explore the symbiotic practices of microbes and humans from various angles, from microbiology and ethnology, food and nutrition sciences and anthropology. Special attention will be given to the role of microbes in developing and preserving food in human societies, as well as their role in digestion, and how these roles are connected to human mental and physical health. The course also explores how microbes sustain vital nutrient cycles and their ability to transform garbage and waste into healthy soil.
The course works with the concept of „One Health“ which has been in development for the past couple of decades. One Health is a transdisciplinary and collaborative paradigm that recognizes the shared environment and interconnection between people, animals, plants and microbes. The approach promotes health and wellbeing for humans, animals and the environment, emphasizing coordination, communication, and joint efforts across disciplines. The topic will be explored through different examples of microbial-human relations such as how microbes affect the taste of food and its composition, how diets affect gut microbiota, the role of fermentation in shaping microbial-human relations and how urban waste management disrupts nutrition cycles in the human environment.
Relations between humans and animals are the focus of this course, which will be approached from both an academic and an artistic standpoint. Students will complete independent projects on an animal of their choice and attend field trips in nature and museums. The lectures will focus on diverse animals, such as polar bears, whales, great auks and puffins and recent scholarship on them. We will dig into visual and material representations of these, and other, animals in varied cultural contexts, including medieval literature, folktales, oral tradition, film, news reports, material culture and tourism. Consideration will be given to the idea of an “afterlife” of animals in the form of artworks, museum artefacts and souvenirs. We will examine artefacts in both private and public collections and pose the questions of what happens when a living animal is turned into a museum object, and how the meaning that we bestow upon an animal can be subject to development and change under different circumstances. The role of animals in the creation of knowledge and formation of discourse surrounding climate change and issues of the Arctic regions will also be addressed, in addition to animals’ connections to specific places and cultural groups and their role in identity formations of past and present. An attempt will be made to step outside of “traditional” dualism in which an emphasis is placed on distinctions between humans and animals as we acquaint ourselves with the ways in which human/animal (ecological, social and cultural) habitats are intertwined.
Aim
The aim is to explore urgent questions and topical issues regarding human/animal co-existence, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental sustainability. We will consider how artists, researchers, activists and museums have been engaging with these questions and how they can further contribute to the discussion. We will examine how diverse museums convey their ideas and information on human/animal relations through their collections. Students will be encouraged to critically engage with visual material, objects and texts, both online and through visits to museums and exhibitions.
From the 21st - 24th of June 2021, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) will hold its biennial congress in Helsinki, Finland. Ethnologists and folklorists from all over Europe and beyond will gather there, professors, researchers, editors, graduate students, and museum professionals, to present the latest research, debate ideas, broaden the horizon and enjoy the company of like-minded colleagues.
The SIEF congress is an intellectual festival where we showcase the state of the art in our fields and it is a ritual time in the academic calendar, crucial for carrying the fields forward, building professional networks, hatching collaborative projects, and cultivating friendships. This year, there will be over 800 participants presenting over 700 papers in over 80 panels, plus dozens of films and posters.
In this seminar we will examine the congress program, get to know the keynote speakers, dig into particular panels selected by seminar participants, analyze the congress theme, consider the society itself, map different disciplinary traditions and emphases in the countries of Europe and take stock of what is happening in the field right now. The seminar will also prepare participants to take part in the congress and those who will be presenting a paper or a poster there will have a dress rehearsal in Oddi.
The seminar meets once a week for two class hours at a time and is open to graduate students and teachers. Course evaluation will be based, on the one hand, on active and informed participation in the seminar and on projects prepared over the course of the semester (5 ECTS) and, on the other hand, on participation in the congress itself and a congress report that is due after it (5 ECTS). Students will need to finance their participation in the congress. It is possible to take the seminar without going to the congress (5 ECTS only).
Everybody need to eat; food connects nature to culture, culture to industry, the public to the private, the local to the global, the home to the workplace, the past to the present and one person to another in relationships that organize and transcend the axes of class, gender, ethnicity, race and age. The study of food demonstrates that food is always laden with meaning that exceeds its nutritional value and that this meaning is central to understanding the relationship between food and people, one of the more important relationships we have with the world. Food habits thus reveal our views, values and aestethics, and food shapes our existence, bodies, memories, society, economy and ethics.
In the course we will explore what people eat, how, when, with whom and why. Doing so provides us with valuable insights regarding gender and generations, food safety and health, sustainability and human rights, class and cultural diversity, sense and sensibility, technology and food production, food and diet trends, food traditions and cultural heritage, emotions and microbes, friendship and family dynamics.
In the course we explore the relationship between food production and consumption in the 21st century with specific emphasis on public health, ethical consumption and sustainability.
Food and culture is an interdisciplinary course taught in cooperation between the Department of Folkloristics/Ethnology and Museum Studies and the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition.
The field of Folklore, emerging out of the phenomena collectively referred to as Modernity, has a complicated and problematic relationship with gender, both in the material that circulates and the subsequent academic treatment of that material. This seminar combines theoretical perspectives from Gender Studies and Folkloristics to better understand the interconnectedness of popular cultural forms, analyses, and the operations of power, specifically gender relations. Beginning with a feminist critique of Folkloristics from within (a historical reference point), we will examine more recent work on the relationship between gender and genre, between the empowering acts of ordinary rituals (so-called women‘s genres), and how the old, debunked Nature/Culture divide, in which women‘s genres were debased and denigrated, may, looked at from a different perspective, suggest alternate approaches to some contemporary global issues.
Teacher of the course: JoAnn Conrad
An examination will be made of the religious beliefs and practices of people in Scandinavia from the earliest of times until the conversion, material ranging from burial practices to rock carvings, to the written evidence given in the works of Tacitus, Adam of Bremen and Saxo Grammaticus, as well as in early Icelandic works like the Eddic poems and the Kings' sagas. Alongside this discussion of the development and key features of Old Norse religion, some attention will be paid to the concepts of seid and shamanism, especially in connection to their role in early religions. Finally, an examination will be made of the conversion of Scandinavia and how Christian concepts and practices both fitted and contrasted with the previously dominant Old Norse worldview.
Teaching format
This course introduces the ways in which the fields and methods of folklore/ethnology are and may be put to use, how their application may help broaden and deepen public debates and positively affect society's self-understanding and self-fashioning. We discuss how folklore/ethnology may be put to use in tourism, museums, arts and various media. One area of focus is also the accessibility and uses of folklore collections. We explore, moreover, various scholarly and popular genres in which the conclusions of ethnological research (based on historical sources, interviews and other fieldwork methods) may be disseminated: exhibitions, festivals, events, articles, books, websites, radioshows or documentaries. Different means of reaching different groups of people will be discussed and moral, financial and political issues will be addressed.
The course will partly be taught in intensive workshops, 3 days at the beginning of the semester in Reykjavík and 4 days during project week in Hólmavík in the Westfjords. Students will work on projects in applied ethnology/public folklore. There will be no final exam.
What is cultural heritage and what purpose does it serve? Why does it always seem to be endangered? How does it tie together the past and the present? What's it got to do with the nation and the state? Historical consciousness? Globalization? Capitalism? Politics? The course will seek to answer these questions with reference to new research in folklore, ethnology, anthropology, art history, sociology, museology, history and archaeology and with a view to understanding what is going on in this expanding field of study.
Albert B Lord's theory on oral poetry from The Singer of Tales forms a basis for the course. Research that has appeared since the writing of that book will be discussed and an attempt made to evaluate the influence that the theory has had on research of medieval literature that is partly based on oral tradition. In the latter half of the course the focus will be on the Eddic Poems.
International conferences focusing on ethnology and folklore, where the latest research in the field is presented are held regularly. Scholars from all over the world come together to talk about their own projects, discuss ideas, broaden their horizons, enjoy the company of people in the same field, and outline possible collaborations.
In June 2026 The International Society for Folk Narrative Research will hold an international conference in Reykjavík. In this seminar, we will delve into the ins and outs of international academic conferences, with a focus on these two conferences. We will introduce key speakers, delve into individual seminars according to the participants' areas of interest, examine themes, reflect on the organizations behind them, map different traditions and emphases in ethnography in European countries, and take the pulse of what is happening in the field right now. At the same time, the seminar prepares participants to participate in such a conference. The seminar meets once a week for two class hours at a time.
Students are encouraged to participate in the conference and in return gain 5 ECTS credits; see ÞJÓ210M Conference participation.
International conferences focusing on ethnology and folklore, where the latest research in the field is presented are held regularly. Scholars from all over the world come together to talk about their own projects, discuss ideas, broaden their horizons, enjoy the company of people in the same field, and outline possible collaborations.
In June 2026 The International Society for Folk Narrative Research will hold an international conference in Reykjavík. Following a seminar course, where the ins and outs of international academic conferences are presented, students have the opportunity to participate in this conference and turn in a report (5 ECTS).
Students will need to finance their participation in the congress, but we point out that the Icelandic Society of Ethnology and Folklore sometimes advertises a travel fund in connection with conferences of this type. It is often possible to get reimbursement from the union, and doctoral students can apply for a doctoral student travel fund.
This course is a continuation of the undargraduate course ÞJÓ605G Sowing seeds: Dissemination and career development. The focus here is on the dissemination of folkloristic knowledge. Students learn to present both themselves and their field in public contexts, in written and spoken forms both in person and online. The course is project-based, with students working on small projects consistently throughout the semester.
Changes may occur for the autumn semester in August and September and for the spring semester in December and January. You will find your final timetable in Ugla when the studies start.
Note! This timetable is not suitable for planning your work schedule if you are a part-time employee.
The University of Iceland collaborates with over 400 universities worldwide. This provides a unique opportunity to pursue part of your studies at an international university thus gaining added experience and fresh insight into your field of study.
Students generally have the opportunity to join an exchange programme, internship, or summer courses. However, exchanges are always subject to faculty approval.
Students have the opportunity to have courses evaluated as part of their studies at the University of Iceland, so their stay does not have to affect the duration of their studies.
This list is not exhaustive
The organisation for folkloristics students is called Þjóðbrók.
Þjóðbrók organises fun events that foster a positive student community within the subject.
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