Urban Legends

Catalog description

This is an interdisciplinary course that utilizes the disciplines of history, anthropology, media studies, psychology, and social psychology to examine urban legends from various perspectives. In this class, we will focus primarily on United States (U.S.) thought and culture, through an examination of the urban legend, in an attempt to map the American mind through a discussion of urban legends as moral panics, popular assumptions, and mass hysteria with a focus on race, gender and class.