ENGL 205 Introduction to Mythology (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course offers a survey of diverse global mythologies to include oral and written myths, addressing the interplay of the culture and its mythology from a variety of critical perspectives.
Course Content
A. Representative mythological works from diverse cultures around the world
B. Cross-cultural mythological themes and concepts (e.g. creation/destruction, supernatural beings, The Soul, The Other World, sacrifice, rituals, meaning, death and immortality, time and space, afterlife, The Apocalypse)
C. Mythological oral and literary traditions
D. Cultural contexts that shape mythologies (e.g. historical, religious, social, political, regional, environmental)
E. Mythology’s evolving influence on art and culture
F. Mythological archetypes, motifs, metaphors, symbolism, and concepts
G. Comparative cross-cultural approaches to mythological analysis
Student Outcomes
1. Examine representative mythological works from diverse cultures around the world for their cross-cultural themes, and contexts.
2. Explain how oral and literary traditions impact the creation, study, and preservation of myths.
3. Analyze the cultural contexts that shape the content of various myths.
4. Analyze how mythological archetypes, motifs, metaphors, symbols, and concepts are used to convey meaning in a variety of world mythos.
5. Examine myths for their impact and influence on cultures worldwide, including one’s own communities.
6. Reflect on ways positionalities influence analyses of different myths and ways myths impact the reader’s identity.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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