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CAMS 1103 Classical Mythology

Spring 2024

Quick start:

If you have time on your hands, and want to get a jump on activities for the course before HuskyCT opens at midnight on the first day, doing the reading in advance, as specified below on this syllabus, is highly recommended. At the end of this syllabus, you will also find links to the video lectures of the introduction and the first module, as well as a link to the folder in Googledocs that contains all the course reading.

What’s in this syllabus

Welcome to CAMS 1103, a course in some of the greatest stories ever told. What you’ll find in this syllabus is a summary of the goals of the course, a list of course materials, an overview of course policies, and a schedule of modules, each one with a precis of each unit’s activities. You’ll find the modules elsewhere here on the course website, and the links in the modules will guide you through the required activities, along with the assignments you will be completing as the course requirements.

PLEASE NOTE: This course is a course in classical mythology, but it involves a substantial amount of study of modern culture as well. You may have to do a few hours of extra work to expand your knowledge of modern culture in order to participate fully in discussion. This work may involve reading about modern subjects like Kim Kardashian and Superman on Wikipedia; it may also involve watching films like American Pie, although reading articles on Wikipedia is always an acceptable and time-saving substitute for viewing films and TV shows. Think carefully, though: if you're not ready to have whatever ideas about ancient myth you've come to this course with challenged and even changed by encounters with films like Star Wars, artists like Mel Brooks, and games like Halo, please consider finding another course.

Goals, Objectives, Assessments

A. Goal: Knowledge of the stories of classical myth

Objective: Students will be able to summarize the key stories of classical mythology.

Assessment: quiz questions

B. Goal: Knowledge of key interpretations of classical myth

Objective: Students will be able to summarize what the interpreters of classical myths have theorized about those myths’ relation to the rest of classical culture.

Assessment: quiz questions

C. Goal: Skill at analysis of myth

Objective: Students will be able to produce a basic analysis of a myth from any culture, including their own, which relates the myth to cultural truth-value.

Assessment: “Lab reports,” team-forum discussions

D. Goal: Knowledge of the reception of the classical myths

Objective: Students will be able to recognize the presence of the key stories of classical myth in works originating throughout the history of Western culture, from the archaic period of Greece to modern America

Assessment: team-forum discussions

E. Goal: Applied analysis of modern culture

Outcome: Students will be able to describe thickly their own culture as a reawakening of ancient mythic practice.

Assessment: “Lab report,” team-forum discussions

Required Course Materials

Open-source texts

Homer (trans. Butler) Odyssey (online open-source)

Ovid (trans. Moore) Metamorphoses (online open-source)

Selections from Classical mythological literature (online open-source)

Wikipedia articles linked in reading Googledocs

NOTE: Reading the linked Wikipedia articles, which provide essential context for the primary source readings, is a required activity of the course: your grasp of these articles' content will be assessed both on quizzes as you answer direct questions concerning what you read and in discussion and lab reports as you actively bring the content to bear on those activities.

All the above texts will be linked in the learning modules on HuskyCT.

Forum Access

You will be required to participate in forum discussions on HuskyCT as part of this course. Links to the specific discussions will be provided within each module. There is also a unique extra-credit opportunity called mythomachy that begins in the required team-discussions; see the Special Guidelines for discussion in the Course Orientation for details.

Course Policies

This course requires a great deal of work. If you’re taking it because you think an online course can’t be hard, I urge you to reconsider. As you’ll see from the schedule of modules, you will have lectures to watch, reading to do, written “lab reports” to turn in, and discussions to participate in faithfully. You will also be quizzed on your learning of the material in the reading. The written assignments themselves are not especially time-consuming, but to complete them on-time and successfully, and thus pass the course, you will have to do the watching and reading assignments, which are much more time-consuming activities.

Assignments must be submitted on time, except in case of documented emergency. This policy includes the required mythomachy discussions: posts in the discussion forums will not count toward your grade if made after the date when the discussion closes, which is the last day of the module. If you foresee a conflict, please inform me of it as soon as possible. In the absence of a documented emergency, your work will be graded down one full grade per day of belatedness. Quizzes are available at any time until 11:59pm on the final day of classes. Unlimited attempts at quizzes are allowed; only your highest attempt counts. If you can document an emergency that has prevented you from taking a quiz, you may be excused from it, and it will not factor into your course-grade. Computer problems by themselves do not constitute a documentable emergency unless you can provide evidence, for example from the HuskyCT support team, that you made a diligent effort to take the quiz during its availability but were prevented by computer issues. Reports may be turned in late, with a ten point penalty per day of lateness, until midnight on the final day of classes. No work will be accepted after that date except by special arrangement with your instructor in the case of a documented emergency.

Grading for the course is as follows: discussion assignments (called "mythomachy"--see separate instructions) (7) at 5.71% each; lab reports (7) at 5.71% each; quizzes (7) at 2.85% each. Grades are assigned thus: >92=A, >89=A-, >86=B+, >82=B, >79=B-, >76=C+, >72=C, >69=C-, >66=D+, >62=D, >59=D-, <=59=F.

This is an online asynchronous course. That means that you may choose your own schedule for completing course activities on a short-term basis--that is, in a 24-hour period, you get to choose when to work on the course. It does not mean that you can go long periods between sessions of working on the course. Most importantly, this course thrives on discussion, and discussion requires constant attention. If you want to perform well in this course, you should post frequently in your team-forum, and post at least five times per module (these posts may all be replies to other students' posts).

These five posts are the minimum to achieve a 70 (=C-) for the discussion. They should each be at least one hundred words long, and they should all include substantive content that fulfills at least one of the three parts of the basic rubric of the course: cultural-truth value, classical comparison, and detailed analysis. For a score of 80 (B-) or higher, you must fulfill all three parts of the basic rubric, across all five (or more) posts. Note that late discussion is never accepted. In the case of a documented emergency, a module's discussion may be exempted so that it will not affect your grade.

Note that Scores for discussion are capped at 70 (=C-) for students who wait until the last 72 hours of a module to post.

Please note that all report submissions are final. This includes files in incorrect formats, for which you will receive a zero. Be absolutely sure you are turning in the correct file before you upload it. If you forget to include an element of your report, such as your list of sources, you wil not be allowed to resubmit. It is your reponsibiity to ensure that your file has uploaded fully and correctly, and, in case you have any doubt, to mail your team-leader immediately, including the file, so that we can check the submission and help you finish it, in case of any difficulty.

Please note that a score of 93 (=A) is the highest score that will be awarded for work that does no more than fulfilling the rubric, in both your reports and your discussion. Higher scores are reserved for work that goes above and beyond, for example displaying independent scholarly research.

Please be sure you understand and follow university standards for academic conduct, especially where they relate to plagiarism. The SafeAssign system used for the reports in this course has made it very easy to detect improper use of sources, and plagiarism is a much more serious matters than most students tend to realize before reviewing university standards. Should you be found to have turned in work that is not entirely your own, without proper attribution of your sources, it is my responsibility to impose a penalty. For the first offense, you will receive a zero on the work submitted. For a second offense, you will receive an F for the course. In accordance with the student handbook, you may, if found to have committed academic misconduct, request a hearing within five days.

Schedule of Modules (for a granular schedule, with dates, click here)

Weeks 1-2 Module 1, What is Classical Myth?

● Watch: Video lectures: Introduction, The Odyssey and the andra, Succession, Troy

● Read: Odyssey books 1-4, Selected texts document 1; Wikipedia articles on Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings (if you are unfamiliar with these important works of modern culture)

● Take: Quiz 1

● Discuss: Come up with a team name. Discuss your team's response to the mythomachy question in your team-forum. (Optional: make sure at least one of you posts your responses on both sides.)

● Write: 500-750 word report on an experience of a modern myth like a movie, a pop song, or a video game, and its relation to the material of Module 1.

Weeks 3-4 Module 2, The andra and the war

● Watch: Video lectures: Calypso; Odysseus and Demodocus. Video Supplements: Hermes, Poseidon.

● Read: Odyssey books 5-8, Selected texts document 2; Notes on Hermes, Notes on Poseidon.

● Take: Quiz 2