Welcome to HUM 2130 Mythology

• Getting Started
• Orientation to the Course
• The Purpose of the Discussions
• Using the Dropbox
• More on How to Use eLearn
• HUM 2130 Syllabus
• Professional Ethics: W.E. Succeed
• Weekly Schedule
• Week 1 Discussions: Introductions

 

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Module I: Introduction to World Mythology

• Overview
• Learning Outcomes
• Key Words & Concepts
• Content, Lectures, Readings, Assignments, etc.
• Reading Assignment for Module 1
• How "Myth" Came to Mean "Falsehood"
• So What is Myth?
• Definitions of Mythology
• The Value of Studying Myth
• The Problem of Similarities
• Myth Differences: A Cultural Fingerprint
• Comparison of World Myths
• Guidelines to Studying Myth
• History of Myth Studies
• Early Approaches to Mythology
• Views of Mythology: Early Christian to the 18th Century
• Founders of Modern Thought
• 19th Century Approaches to Mythology
• 20th Century Approaches to Mythology
• Contemporary Approaches
• Lectures with Audio Added
• Gods From Around the World
• The Graeco-Roman Pantheon
• Chart of the Greek and Roman Gods
• The Norse Pantheon
• Chart of the Norse Gods
• Civilization in the Fertile Crescent
• Chart of the Mesopotamian Gods
• Civilization on the Nile
• Chart of the Egyptian Gods
• Other Gods from around the world
• Additional Resources
• Assessments & Evaluations
• Exam 1 Study Guide: Reading Exam over Edith Hamilton's Mythology
• Week 2 Discussions: Introduction to Mythology
• Week 3 Discussions: Approaches to Mythology
• Novel Analysis (Semester Project)
• Summary & Reflection

 

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Module II: Cosmic Myths

• Overview
• Learning Outcomes
• Key Words & Concepts
• Content, Lectures, Readings, Assignments, etc.
• Reading Assignment for Module 2
• Myths of Creation (Cosmogonic Myths)
• Types of Creation Myths
• The Norse Creation Myth
• The Babylonian Creation Myth
• The Chinese Creation Myth
• The Egyptian Creation Myth
• Myths of a Great Flood
• The Babylonian Flood Myth
• The Genesis Flood Myth
• The Hawaiian Flood Myth
• Various Native American Flood Myths
• Myths of the Apocalypse
• Norse Myth of Ragnarok
• Myths of the Afterlife
• Plato's Myth of Er from The Republic
• In the Land of Souls (Native American)
• Additional Resources
• Assessments & Evaluations
• Creation Myth Project
• Exam 2 Study Guide: Mid-Term Exam (Modules I and II, Leonard & McClure, Chs. 1 and 2)
• Week 4 Discussions: Introduction to Creation Myths; Dogon Myth
• Week 5 Discussions: Creation Myths: Norse, Greek, Iroquois
• Week 6 Discussions: Creation Myths: Sumerian, Hindu, Hebrew, Mayan
• Summary & Reflection

 

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Module III: Fertility and Gender Myths

• Overview
• Learning Outcomes
• Key Words & Concepts
• Content, Lectures, Readings, Assignments, etc.
• Reading Assignment for Module 3
• Gender Myths
• Divine Archetypes
• Feminine and Masculine Divine Archetypes
• Jacob: Trickster and Shaman
• Fertility Myths
• Fertility Rites
• Love Stories
• Ishtar (Innana) and Tammuz (Damuzi)
• Isis and Osiris
• Nut and Ra
• Demeter and Persephone
• Additional Resources
• Assessments & Evaluations
• Archetype Project
• Study Guide for Exam 3
• Week 8 Discussions: Female Divine Archetypes
• Week 9 Discussions: Male Divine Archetypes
• Summary & Reflection

 

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Module IV: Hero Myths

• Overview
• Learning Outcomes
• Key Words & Concepts
• Content, Lectures, Readings, Assignments, etc.
• Reading Assignment for Module 4
• Approaches to Hero Myths
• Joseph Campbell and the Monomyth
• The Monomyth (ORIAS), UC Berkeley
• Lord Raglan: Myth Ritualist
• Vladimir Propp: The Structure of Folktales
• Carl Jung: Jungian Archetypes
• General Examples of Archetypes
• Archetypes and the Hero
• Greek Theater
• Introduction to Greek Theater
• Aristotle and the Nature of Tragedy
• Greek Tragedies
• Epic Literature
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Classical Epics (Greece and Rome)
• Homer's Iliad
• The Iliad: Structure and Themes (Denis Kiely)
• Homer's Odyssey
• The Odyssey: Structure and Themes (Denis Kiely)
• Comparison of the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Virgil's Aeneid
• Hindu Epic
• The Ramayana
• European Epics
• Beowulf
• The Nibelungenleid
• Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table
• Courtly Love
• Tristan and Isolde
• Additional Resources
• Assessments & Evaluations
• Novel Analysis Due
• Study Guide for Exam 4
• Week 10 Discussions: Approaches to Hero Myths; The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Week 11 Discussions: The Greek and Roman Epics
• Week 12 Discussions: Hindu and European Hero Myths
• Summary & Reflection

 

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Module V: Tricksters/Sacred Space

• Overview
• Learning Outcomes
• Key Words & Concepts
• Content, Lectures, Readings, Assignments, etc.
• Reading Assignment for Module 5
• Tricksters
• The Coyote and the Turtle (Hopi) (Project Gutenberg)
• The Coyote and Water Plume Snake (Hopi) (Project Gutenberg)
• Sacred Space
• The Nature of the Sacred
• Additional Resources
• Assessments & Evaluations
• Week 13 Discussions: Tricksters and Sacred Space
• Summary & Reflection

 

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Final Reflections: Mythology & the Contemporary World

• Final Summary and Reflection
• Additional Resources
• Final Exam Essay

 

HUM 2130 World Mythology