BASIC COURSE INFORMATION
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Department/ Subject Area ENG
Course Number 038
Disciplines ENG-English
Proposal Type Course Revision (Major)
Division Library, Learning Resources, and Language Arts Division
Cross Listing Courses
Course Title Mythology
Transcript Title Mythology
Course Description This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to the literature of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology. Other universal myths may be included. The course provides a background for understanding of allusions, form, and content of recurring themes in modern literature as well as revealing the continued influence of mythological motifs on customs, traditions, beliefs, and values. (UC, CSU)
Community Service No
Proposed For Revision
Effective Date 2009 Fall
Change MINOR
How Course is being Changed Catalog description updated.
Advisory added.
Comparable courses updated.
Textbook(s) updated.
Student learning outcomes and assessment updated.
Sample assignments added.
Challenge rationale added.
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Course Description
Lecture Hrs: 3.00 - 3.00
Lab Hrs: 0 - 0
Student Unit Hrs: 3.00 - 3.00
Faculty Lecture Units: 3.00
Faculty Lab Units: 0
Field Trips Not Required
Grade Options 0: A-F or Inc.
Transfer/Degree Applicability Associate Degree & Transfer
Non-Credit Options
Repeated NO
Repeat Count
Repeat Frequency
Repeat Period
Repeat Units
Repeat Rationale
Challenged YES
Rationale Student can acquire sufficient experience and understanding to pass an examination.
Fee Amount 0.00
Comparable Course Information
Comparable Course Information Community College Course
Mission College
English 043
Catalog Year: 2007-2008 Page: 86
URL: http://www.collegesource.org/displayinfo/frame.asp?projectid=117097
3 units Advisory: READ 053 Prerequisite: ENGL 001A Acceptable for credit: University of California, California State University. An examination of the major classical myths of Western heritage for an appreciation of their literary value and their influence on modern life and culture. Credit/No Credit Option.

CSU
California State University at Sacramento
Classical Mythology HRS 119
Catalog Year: 2006-2008 Page: 436
URL: http://www.collegesource.org/displayinfo/frame.asp?projectid=116127
Study of Greek and Roman myths and hero tales and their place in the arts and literature of Western civilization. Also provides an introduction to the general nature and function of myth. 3 units.

UC
University of California at Los Angeles
Classic Myths English 88M
Catalog Year: 2005-2007 Page: 295
URL: http://www.collegesource.org/displayinfo/frame.asp?projectid=112069
88A-88Z. Lower Division Seminars: Special Topics in English. (5 each) Seminar, three hours. Limited to 15 students. Content varies; see departmental counselor for information. P/NP or letter grading. 88A. Medieval Literature; 88B. Renaissance Literature; 88C. 17th-Century Literature; 88D. 18th-Century Literature; 88E. Romantic Literature; 88F. Victorian Literature; 88G. 20th-Century British Literature; 88H. Colonial American Literature; 88I. 19th-Century American Literature; 88J. 20th-Century American Literature; 88K. History of English Language; 88L. Folklore and Mythology; 88M. Literature and Society.
Course Goals
Course Goals General Goals: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Recognize the universality of the human condition portrayed in mythology.
2. Explain how mythology is applicable to modern life.
3. Compare and contrast world myths including: Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology.
Course Objectives
Course Objectives Specific Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Analyze the literary versions of Greek, Roman, Norse, and world mythological concepts for the purpose and tones of the authors.
2. Interpret Greek, Roman, Norse, and world mythological concepts.
3. Explain inconsistencies found in mythology.
4. Explain how mythology relates to world cultures, history, and social development.
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
  1. Outcome:Upon completion of the course the student will illustrate the psychological significance of myths and will identify and classify historical and current myths.
    Assessment:The student selects two specific myths from a culture of his/her choice and parallels the universal significance of these myths in a three to four page documented essay.
  2. Outcome:The student will identify aspects of his/her own culture that are influenced by myths from the past.
    Assessment:In a four page documented essay, the student analyzes, evaluates, explains the thematic significance of the Mediterranean culture and values as found in their myths.
Course Outline
Outline Text
  1. The Universal (World) Characteristics of Mythology
    1. Religious and social structure influenced
    2. Parallels and patterns of experience of people: religious, psychological, artistic
    3. The story and story teller in oral tradition
    4. Myth, folktale, saga, legend
  2. The Hero
    1. Characteristics-social and psychological experiences paralleling mortal experience
    2. Characteristics-social and psychological experiences of the immortal
    3. The fatal flaw
  3. Supernatural Characters
    1. Features:flaws
    2. The Greek Pantheon-major players
      1. Influence on mortals'
      2. role of women in culture through goddess
      3. love and sexuality reflected in immortals'
  4. Understanding Similarities in Myths Structure and then though Geography
    1. Significant sites:Athea, Counth, Delphi, Mycense, Delos, Crate, Thekes
    2. Geography of Iliad and Odyssey
Course Assignments
Course Assignments Reading
Optional Text:
Assignments: READING: 1. Read "The Illiad" to comprehend the episodic structure of this typical epic, then make a list of events that occur. 2. Read "Odin," "Frigga" and "Thor" to find the differences in the saga when contrasted with "The Illiad."
Writing
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Assignments: WRITING: 1. In a four page paper, compare and contrast the incidents, the episodes, the action, characters, setting, conflict in "The Illiad" to the Star Wars Saga. 2. After reading the assigned myths, write a four page paper that shows the influence of ancient mythology on current vocabulary. For example, the paper might trace the meaning of words such as "cassandra" as someone who has an ability to foresee the ramifications of an action. This word comes from the Roman mythological system in which Cassandra, daughter of Priam, could prophesies, but because she angered the gods, they cursed her by having no one believe her. This myth created the meaning for the word "cassandra" or someone whose dire prediction is ignored. 3. Write a four page paper, (1,000) words, differentiating between Roman and Greek myths with Norse myths.
Course Methods of Evaluation
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Course Methods of Evaluation A student's evaluation will be based on a required final examination and multiple measures of performance including critical thinking. These methods may include, but are not limited to the following.
The student will be graded on section exams which include essays, research or other writing assignments, a final examination, and other assignments, as established by the instructor. At least one method of evaluation will be used which will require the student to demonstrate critical thinking as evidenced through writing.
Course Methods of Instruction
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Methods Dist Ed-Other
Internet-Delayed Inter
Lecture
Other Methods
Course Distance Education
Delivery Methods Chat Room
E-Mail
Online Discussions
Online Forum
Online Lectures
Threaded Discussions
Other Methods
Quality Assurance The course content for this online Mythology class is the same as the content covered in the on-campus sections: instructor-written lectures; hyperlinks that provide the student additional required and supplemental information, including texts,graphics, or images. Students use a messaging system as a mode of communication, providing them the opportunity for course content related discussion and student-to-student interaction. Forum discussions relate to course content, allows students to post comments, and to interact with other students sharing perspectives and posing additional questions, thus creating asynchronous discussion. Students are also encouraged to use electronic messaging or to telephone the instructor with questions or concerns. The online course has the same content, same lecture hours, same homework, same examinations, same activities and the same materials as face-to-face course.
Evaluation Method Methods of assessment is based on the student's ability to adequately respond to the given prompt through essays, both midterm and final exams, through quizzes, through discussions, and through documented essays.
Additional Resources
Distance Ed - Contact Types
Distance Ed - Contact Types Email - Students are expected to contact the instructor via email three times per week responding to course assignments other course activities. The instructor is expect to contact students concerning assignments and course activities.
Online Course - Course lectures, assignments, and activities are available 24/7. The course includes the same hours of lecture, homework, examinations, activities, and material as face-to-face course
Online Forum - Students will participate in online forums in a forum lounge.
Online Discussions - Discussion will be in a group format and threaded discussions at least once per week.
Course Textbooks
Textbooks Crossley-Holland. The Norse Myths. 1980 edition Pantheon , 1980
Mason, Herbert. Gilgameshia Verse Narrative. Current Edition Houghton Mifflin , 2003
Morford, Mark and Lenardon Robert. Classical Mythology. 8th Oxford Press , 2007
Tran, N.L. West. Hesiod: Theogony Works and Days. Current Oxford UP. New York , 1999
Tran. Robert Fagles. Homer. The Iliad. Current New York: Penquin , 1991
Tran. L.R. Lind. Virgil's Aeneid. Current Indiana, U.P. Bloomington , 1962
Guerber H.A., ed.. Myths of the Norsemen. Current Mineda: Dover , 1992
Gibaldi et. al. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 5th or Current New York: Modern Language Association , 1999
Tran. Robert Fagles. Homer. The Odyssey. Current New York , 1997
Mason, Herbert . Epic of Gilgamesh. 1 or current edition Mariner Books , 2003
E. F. Watling . THEBAN PLAYS. 47th or Current Penguin Classics , 1950
J.F. Bierlein. Living Myths: How Myth Gives Meaning to Human Experience. 1st edition or current Wellspring/Ballantine , 1999
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Current Translation Princeton University Press , 1972
Virgil, Fagles, Robert Translator. The Aeneid. Reprint edition Penguin Classics; Reprint edition , 2008
Manuals
Periodicals
Course Supplies
Course Supplies
Course Resources
Course Resources Learning Resources
Optional Text: Current support adequate
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Computer Resources
Optional Text: On-line course will require access to the appropriate computer format.
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Disabled Student Programs and Services
Optional Text: Current support adequate
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Other Resources
Optional Text: None
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Entry Skills
Entry Skills Advisory: Reading Level II
Advisory: ENG 1A
  • ENG 001A - Narrow a topic to an appropriate focus, research the topic using both electronic and printed indexes, and evaluate the findings for use in a research paper.
  • ENG 001A - Paraphrase, summarize, and quote source material for a research paper.
  • ENG 001A - Evaluate sources for bias, currency, and applicability.
  • ENG 001A - Compose a research paper following assigned documentation guidelines.
  • ENG 001A - Compose an expository essay, employing appropriate patterns of development, with a structure containing introduction, body, and conclusion, and a clear, limited thesis
  • ENG 001A - Compose a timed, on-demand essay in response to a prompt, similar to university-level competency examinations.
  • ENG 001A - Revise essays for grammar, usage, structure, and content through self-evaluation, peer editing, and instructor comments.
  • ENG 001A - Read, understand, and summarize essays and book-length works.
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    Course Requisites
    Course Requisites Requisite Type: Advisories
    Sub Area Course #: ENG-001A
    With a Minimum Grade of C
    Comment:

    General Education Requirements
    Proposed For Categories
    District General Education HUMANITIES
      Comments: In studying the various cultures' myths, students compare principles, theories, beliefs, and knowledge of peoples of the world and trace the development of modern principles, beliefs, theories, and knowledge that emerge from these ancients. The student analyzes the principles, beliefs, theories, and knowledge of contemporary society and culture with that of the pasts' societies and cultures. In tracing and comparing, the student analyzes the principles, beliefs, theories, and knowledge of contemporary society and culture with that of the pasts' societies and cultures. The student is required to analyze various myths in terms of literature as well as the historic period in which the myth appears. The student applies this understanding in a well-written formal documented essay. In writing the analysis of the myths, the student must be able to comprehend and to write standard English. In addition, the student shows an understanding of an historic period and the relationship to contemporary issues. In comparing the myths of one culture with those of another culture, the student acknowledges the differences and similarities of those cultures and how these have influenced American society. In having a background in the beliefs of a people, the student has a better understanding of the mores and values of a culture and is, consequently, better able to communicate that people. Since many of the myths were not in written form but passed through oral tradition, the student will appreciate the development of mythology through various forms of expression: visual, auditory, kinesthetic. In understanding the myth, the student has a foundation for understanding contemporary American literature. The student traces in a documented essay, the evolution of a contemporary practice in terms of its mythological origins; ex. shaking hands when meeting someone.
    Transfer Types Course can be transferred to CSU
    Course can be transferred to UC
    Course Codes
    CB00 State ID CCC000363214
    SAM Code (CB09) E = Not Occupational
    TOP Code (CB03) 1501.00 - English
    Course Credit Status (CB04) Credit - Degree Applicable
    Coop Educational Code N - N = Not Coop Education
    Coop Work Code (CB10) Y - Y = Not Applicable
    CAN Code (CB14)
    Course Completion Assessment Level None
    Instructional Code I - Introductory
    Classification Codes (CB11) A - Liberal Arts
    Print Catalog YES
    Print Class Schedule YES
    Independent Studies NO
    Open Entry NO
    Work Experience NO
    Special Topics NO
    Appointment YES
    Contract Course NO
    Basic Skills (CB08) N Not Basic Skills
    Organizational Unit Library, Learning Resources, & Language Arts Div
    Prior Skills (CB21) Y = Not applicable
    Originator Hubert Powell
    Previous Course ENG 038 Mythology
    Proposal Type Course Revision (Major)
    Course Status Active
    Admin Dates
    Discipline Group Chair 11/07/2007
    Curriculum Committee Chair 10/20/2008
    Board of Trustees 12/18/2008
    Academic Senate President 12/09/2008
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