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ENGL 2055 - Mythology

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students will analyze and explore several major works of classical and world mythology and relate the works and ideas to modern thought and world literature.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000  or above, or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of ‘C’ or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021  with a grade of ‘C’ or higher.

Major Content
  1. Mythology
  2. Literary tradition/history of classical/world mythology
  3. Literary works of classical/world mythology
  4. Strategies of literary criticism with emphasis on classical/world mythology

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in mythology.
  2. respond critically to works in mythology.
  3. articulate an informed personal reaction to works in mythology.
  4. analyze those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
  5. analyze basic literary elements in works studied
  6. demonstrate, through analysis of the mythological readings, knowledge of cultural, social, religious, and linguistic differences.
  7. describe and analyze in the mythological readings, the political and cultural elements which influence societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
  8. understand, through analysis of the mythological readings, the role of a world citizen and the responsibility citizens share for a common global future.


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