2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

ISP 132 Monsters and What They Mean

3 hours

Monsters are creatures of the imagination.  They are often evil, grotesque, or terrifying yet they exist in all cultures across most of recorded history.  Why?  Why do societies invent monsters?  And what do these monsters tell us about the societies that create, consume and sometimes embrace them?  This course will examine monsters—from ancient beasts to vampires and zombies—as a specific type of creative expression: one that seeks to scare, thrill, and reveal, ultimately helping to expose the tensions around society’s greatest hopes, darkest fears, and most prominent conflicts.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

None

Notes

This course satisfies the Flexible Core: Creative Expression area of the Gen Ed Program.