3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Lower DivisionHumanitiesData from last updated 2/18/2026
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
This course traces specific monster case studies across a variety of genres and media from the ancient to the modern period. It explores the way monsters define and police the boundaries of what it means to be human, and provide a common language for crystallizing specific social, ethnic, and national practices.
Learning Outcomes1Explain the relationship between monsters and nationalism/national identity.
2Explain disability theory and the cultural coding of unusual bodies.
3Produce written, verbal, and visual communication that demonstrates critical thinking, creative problem solving, empathy, and visual literacy.
4Apply historical and global awareness.
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