Eight Week Summer Session
First Quarter. Aeschylus, The Oresteia. Selections from Sappho, Hesiod's Theogony, mythological imagery in popular science writing and animism in the belief of contemporary scientists (Gaia hypothesists). Hitchcock's Psycho.
Second Quarter. The Book of Revelation, The Enuma Elish. Selections from Genesis, The Book of Enoch, Plato's Phaedrus & Republic, Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, St. Theresa's autobiography, James Varieties of Religious Experience, Eliade Shamanism. , accounts of near-death experiences (NDEs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs). Herzog's Nosferatu.
Third Quarter.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,
Selected vampire lore, lore about gnomes, faeries and the like,
accounts
of abductions by extraterrestrials. Scott's Blade
Runner
Fourth Quarter.
Gibson, Count
Zero. "Mysticism". Haitian religious and folklore material.Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, X-Files.
Kubrick's Dr.
Strangelove