MYTH

Course Code

DR 4554

Credit Points

30

Course Coordinator

TDB

Pre-requisites

Only available to students in Programme Year 4. This course will be available in the second half-session of 2009/10 as DR 4554.

Notes

Students are not permitted to register for this course after the end of week 2 of teaching.

Overview

Selections from primary sources - from the writings of the following theorists of myth: E B Tylor, Mircea Eliade, Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank, C G Jung and Joseph Campbell, Rudolf Bultmann, J G Frazer and Lord Raglan, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

Structure

3 one-hour lectures.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (60%); one essay of 3,000 words (40%).