SLLC299J

Examination of universality in human myths and what could account for it. Insights from cultural and literary studies, art history, linguistics, cognitive psychology, paleoanthropology, population dynamics and other such disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences are brought to bear on the question. Students will take a hands-on approach to mythologies within their local environment, attempting to place them within the context of other mythologies and what commonalities may reveal abouttheir society and the human mind.