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Jan 14, 2025
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LIT 180 - Mythology Credits: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Practicum Hours: 0 Work Experience: 0 Course Type: General This course focuses on the study of myths from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Students will read creation myths, epic narratives, and a range of diverse cultures and works central to world mythology. Competencies
- Understand vocabulary, concepts, and content associated with world mythology
- Read myths from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia
- Define terms and concepts associated with the study of mythology
- Discuss historical context of myths
- Assess assigned reading by focusing on underlying concepts from the study of mythology
- Examine the relationship between myths and historical contexts
- Apply academic theories and scholarship to the reading and understanding of mythology.
- Compare and contrast themes, motifs, and messages of myths across time and place
- Interpret assigned reading with emphasis on implicit meaning and literary criticism
- Discuss how multiple interpretations can exist simultaneously
- Evaluate the cultural messages suggested by authors of myths
- Interpret myths by focusing on at least one critical approach, including formalism, psychoanalytic, feminism, historical, cultural studies, and archetypal, as well as others
- Evaluate mythology’s continuing relevance to the human condition
- Examine multi-cultural and global perspectives
- Correlate assigned texts with contemporary culture and material from other disciplines
- Reflect on how mythology continues to shape identities
- Create effective writing to demonstrate understanding of course goals
- Generate writing as an active process, using planning, researching, drafting, revising, and editing
- Apply standard rules of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling
- Produce analyses and interpretations through written assignments
- Integrate standard college-level documentation practices
- Understand definitions and consequences of plagiarism
- Identify reasons for documentation
- Integrate sources effectively within the given context
- Document sources using MLA style
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