Fall 2024 Learning Community

 

The Making and Unmaking of Monsters

The “Making and Unmaking of Monsters” is a Learning Community of two GNED foundation courses: GNED 1202: Text & Ideas and GNED 1401: Writing for Academic Success. Together, the courses explore iconic cultural notions of monsters and academic writing.  Using the lens of monsters, the course will walk through ancient, classic, and contemporary texts and media that highlight and examine ways that people create monsters, and how they sometimes attempt to “unmake” them.  Notions about monsters also have historical, philosophical, psychological, and scientific roots that relate to academic questions about how we perceive, and sometimes fear, that which is different from ourselves.  Through critical reflection and analysis of monster-making, students will research, reflect, and write to further their academic writing abilities and the many dimensions of the monsters of our world.