Course Category: LITC: Literature (Mythology)
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Tolkien & Tradition
This course helps students learn to evaluate Tolkien’s works both individually and comparatively, judging them in the context of each other as well as of their sources.
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Norse Myths and Sagas
This course provides an introduction to the myths and sagas of medieval Scandinavia.
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Germanic Myths and Legends
This course puts the myths and legends of the medieval Germanic world in their wider cultural and historical contexts.
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Folkloric Transformations: Vampires & Big Bad Wolves
This course explores the transformations of folklore in modern literature, film, and TV, focusing primarily on vampires, as well as fairy tale creatures.
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Classical Myths and Legends
This course puts the myths and legends of the Classical world in their wider cultural and historical contexts.
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C.S. Lewis and Mythologies of Love and Sex
This course explores some of the great mythologies of love that provide a background to today’s culture, sketched out along the twin paths of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves and a chronological development of the ideas of love.