ENG 320: Vampires in Literature and Film engages students with works by Bram Stoker and Anne Rice. HIS 290: Pirates on the High Seas challenges students to reconcile the images of pirates in Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean with today’s real-life (and decidedly less cuddly) pirates.
We’re running out of monsters, so we may not add more courses in this particular vein. But we’ll continue to search for ways to engage students in ways that seem relevant and interesting to them.
Sometimes a bit of blood makes the educational medicine go down.
Scott Dalrymple is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Excelsior College, where Tracy Caldwell is Program Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program.
By Scott Dalrymple, Ph.D. and Tracy Caldwell, Ph.D.
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