Welcome to HUM 2130 Mythology
Getting Started
Orientation to the Course
The Purpose of the Discussions
Using the Dropbox
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HUM 2130 Syllabus
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Weekly Schedule
Week 1 Discussions: Introductions
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
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
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
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 Epic
s
Week 12 Discussions: Hindu and European Hero Myths
Summary & Reflection
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
Final Reflections: Mythology & the Contemporary World
Final Summary and Reflection
Additional Resources
Final Exam Essay
HUM 2130 World Mythology