Monsters

Catalog description

This course examines monsters and the historical, social, cultural and scientific contexts in which they arose and in which they continue to exist. Monsters have been pivotal to world folk tales, myths, literary texts, and films. These hybrids of living creatures and otherness have endured since the beginnings of time and inhabit both the ancient and modern imagination. Through study of monsters throughout time and around the globe students will develop an understanding of different cultures and the way in which people engage the world around them.