Mythology

Catalog description

This course explores mythology both as a kind of knowing and as sacred stories in religion, literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and science. Students will discuss and write about the myths, tales, and legends told by a variety of authors, from indigenous North American storytellers, orators, singers, and dramatists to medieval Germanic poets to British novelists. Class discussion and lecture will raise, from a variety of perspectives, the question of how mythology attempts to explain where and how the world and we came to be. This course is the same as APY 379, and course repeat rules will apply.