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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY
Institute of Arts and Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND HUMANITIES
SYLLABUS
Subject Title: Mythology and Folklore Code: LIT 6
Course Description:
The Mythology course will include reading of myths from several cultures. The content will also include an epic by Homer or Virgil. Group discussions, individual presentations, and writing experiences will be required in this course.
General Objectives
1) To acquaint the students with the mythologies of different countries so as to trace in them the psyche of the race/nation/people and hence to both understand and appreciate their cultures.
2) To familiarize them with the mythologies/folklores of different countries.
3) To gain proficiency in reading and interpreting myths with new, fresher insights.
4) To understand, appreciate and analyze myths.
5) To develop critical thinking through the challenge of reading, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating the mythological works.
1. Read myths from various cultures to distinguish the kinds of myths.
a. Define myth, legend, folk tale, heroic saga, and epic.
b. Identify major deities, mortals, heroes, and creatures in myths of different cultures.
c. Compare and contrast myths from different cultures, such as Greek, Roman, Norse, African, Egyptian, Philippines, etc.
2. Analyze the epic conventions found in myths: the hero, influence of deities, high adventure, role of fate, symbolism, fatal law, and hubris.
a. Identify the above-named epic conventions in myths of different cultures.
b. Compare and contrast the myths of different cultures.
3. Analyze such themes as creation, adventure, sin and punishment, romance, etc., in myths.
a. Identify these themes in myths read.
b. Compare and contrast myths of similar themes from different cultures.
4. Recognize mythological allusions found in literature, language, and other aspects of culture.
a. Locate mythological allusions found in selected literary works.
b. Locate mythological allusions found in advertising, product names, and other areas of everyday life.
c. Recognize vocabulary derived from of influenced by myths.
d. Recognize influence of myths in art and architecture.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Students will look for mythological allusion in selected poems and excerpts from short stories, novels, and plays.
• Students will find mythological allusions in advertisements in television, radio, and print media.
• Given words from mythology (Mars, Psyche, Jove, Fate, etc.), students will use dictionaries to compile lists of words derived from each.
5. Read an epic by Homer or Virgil.
a. Recognize epic conventions in this work.
b. Analyze the characters, theme, and development of plot.
c. Gain an awareness of historical events and persons associated with or described in this epic.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Before reading Homer’s Odyssey, students will read about and discuss the background and characters in Trojan War.
• Students will read, discuss, and write about the Odyssey.
6. Engage in a variety of writing experiences related to mythology.
a. Write letters, journal entries, character sketches, bio-poem, etc., related to myths studied.
b. Research cultures related to the myths studied.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Students will write journal entries for various deities or for Odysseus or Penelope.
• Students will write letters from one deity, hero, creature, etc., to another.
• Students will write original advertisements using words from mythology.
• Students will write character sketches of deities, heroes, creatures, mortals, etc.
• Students will write summaries of myths.
• Students will make a notebook of magazine photographs showing mythological influence on a work of art or architecture.
7. Compose an original myth which authentically represents the current culture or a culture studied, and express it through the arts (drama, illustration, dance, song, etc.)
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• A cooperative (group) structure for his competency might be helpful for students whose creative expression skills need encouragement and reinforcement.
• Students will compose an adventure myth based on Greek mythology and present it with an original mural.
• Students will compose a romance myth based n Philippine folklore and present it with music and dance.
• Students will compose a sin and punishment myth based on Norse mythology and present it by acting it out.
• Students will present a nature myth based on Greek/Roman mythology and present it with an original video.
Primary Sources
1. Homer
2. Hesiod
3. Aeschylus
4. Sophocles
5. Euripides
6. Aristophanes
7. Herodotus
8. Thucydides
9. Ovid
10. Virgil
11. Apuleius
Secondary Sources
Balfinch, Thomas. Mythology
Campbell, Joseph. The Master God
Hamilton, Edith, Mythology, Warner Books, Inc., New York, USA,1949.
Institute of Arts and Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND HUMANITIES
SYLLABUS
Subject Title: Mythology and Folklore Code: LIT 6
Course Description:
The Mythology course will include reading of myths from several cultures. The content will also include an epic by Homer or Virgil. Group discussions, individual presentations, and writing experiences will be required in this course.
General Objectives
1) To acquaint the students with the mythologies of different countries so as to trace in them the psyche of the race/nation/people and hence to both understand and appreciate their cultures.
2) To familiarize them with the mythologies/folklores of different countries.
3) To gain proficiency in reading and interpreting myths with new, fresher insights.
4) To understand, appreciate and analyze myths.
5) To develop critical thinking through the challenge of reading, analyzing, interpreting and evaluating the mythological works.
1. Read myths from various cultures to distinguish the kinds of myths.
a. Define myth, legend, folk tale, heroic saga, and epic.
b. Identify major deities, mortals, heroes, and creatures in myths of different cultures.
c. Compare and contrast myths from different cultures, such as Greek, Roman, Norse, African, Egyptian, Philippines, etc.
2. Analyze the epic conventions found in myths: the hero, influence of deities, high adventure, role of fate, symbolism, fatal law, and hubris.
a. Identify the above-named epic conventions in myths of different cultures.
b. Compare and contrast the myths of different cultures.
3. Analyze such themes as creation, adventure, sin and punishment, romance, etc., in myths.
a. Identify these themes in myths read.
b. Compare and contrast myths of similar themes from different cultures.
4. Recognize mythological allusions found in literature, language, and other aspects of culture.
a. Locate mythological allusions found in selected literary works.
b. Locate mythological allusions found in advertising, product names, and other areas of everyday life.
c. Recognize vocabulary derived from of influenced by myths.
d. Recognize influence of myths in art and architecture.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Students will look for mythological allusion in selected poems and excerpts from short stories, novels, and plays.
• Students will find mythological allusions in advertisements in television, radio, and print media.
• Given words from mythology (Mars, Psyche, Jove, Fate, etc.), students will use dictionaries to compile lists of words derived from each.
5. Read an epic by Homer or Virgil.
a. Recognize epic conventions in this work.
b. Analyze the characters, theme, and development of plot.
c. Gain an awareness of historical events and persons associated with or described in this epic.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Before reading Homer’s Odyssey, students will read about and discuss the background and characters in Trojan War.
• Students will read, discuss, and write about the Odyssey.
6. Engage in a variety of writing experiences related to mythology.
a. Write letters, journal entries, character sketches, bio-poem, etc., related to myths studied.
b. Research cultures related to the myths studied.
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• Students will write journal entries for various deities or for Odysseus or Penelope.
• Students will write letters from one deity, hero, creature, etc., to another.
• Students will write original advertisements using words from mythology.
• Students will write character sketches of deities, heroes, creatures, mortals, etc.
• Students will write summaries of myths.
• Students will make a notebook of magazine photographs showing mythological influence on a work of art or architecture.
7. Compose an original myth which authentically represents the current culture or a culture studied, and express it through the arts (drama, illustration, dance, song, etc.)
Suggested Teaching Strategies:
• A cooperative (group) structure for his competency might be helpful for students whose creative expression skills need encouragement and reinforcement.
• Students will compose an adventure myth based on Greek mythology and present it with an original mural.
• Students will compose a romance myth based n Philippine folklore and present it with music and dance.
• Students will compose a sin and punishment myth based on Norse mythology and present it by acting it out.
• Students will present a nature myth based on Greek/Roman mythology and present it with an original video.
Primary Sources
1. Homer
2. Hesiod
3. Aeschylus
4. Sophocles
5. Euripides
6. Aristophanes
7. Herodotus
8. Thucydides
9. Ovid
10. Virgil
11. Apuleius
Secondary Sources
Balfinch, Thomas. Mythology
Campbell, Joseph. The Master God
Hamilton, Edith, Mythology, Warner Books, Inc., New York, USA,1949.