Are you secretly building an underwater sustainable living pod so you can survive after Ragnarok floods the world? Do you pray to the sun before every big test or project? Are you trying to avoid a curse that will come into effect on your sixteenth birthday by dedicating yourself eternally to the Goddess of the Hunt? If so, you can probably help me teach this class! But if you're fascinated by mythologies - how they develop, how they effect culture and social norms, how they are merging with different aspects of pop culture today - come to this class to learn more! This class will be both lecture and discussion based. I'll touch on as many different mythologies as I can, including all the smaller myths that are not often discussed like Slavic gods of revenge and African tribal folk stories. This class will focus much more on the stories and character in myth rather than on the religious implications. We will also discuss the way traditional myths have entered contemporary pop culture (Neil Gaiman's books, the Percy Jackson series, animated movies).

Are you secretly building an underwater sustainable living pod so you can survive after Ragnarok floods the world? Do you pray to the sun before every big test or project? Are you trying to avoid a curse that will come into effect on your sixteenth birthday by dedicating yourself eternally to the Goddess of the Hunt? If so, you can probably help me teach this class! But if you're fascinated by mythologies - how they develop, how they effect culture and social norms, how they are merging with different aspects of pop culture today - come to this class to learn more! This class will be both lecture and discussion based. I'll touch on as many different mythologies as I can, including all the smaller myths that are not often discussed like Slavic gods of revenge and African tribal folk stories. This class will focus much more on the stories and character in myth rather than on the religious implications. We will also discuss the way traditional myths have entered contemporary pop culture (Neil Gaiman's books, the Percy Jackson series, animated movies). Please feel free to contribute your own knowledge of myths and folk stories!