For this week's storylab, I decided to write some notes on the Crash Course videos over mythology. I thought this would be a fun wrap-up after completing the entire class this semester; a crash course would help me to make sure I understand how everything is intertwined, as well as remember some things from early on in the semester. I watch Crash Courses for my science classes and they have always helped me, and so I was very expectant that I would learn a lot (I was not let down)!
- In the first video, I liked how he considered mythology a "slurrpie of knowledge." I think this is super accurate!
- They did a great job of explaining a myth as a story instead of as facts. Although some myths may have factual parts, there are so many renditions that it is hard to consider all of one myth a fact.
- The second video was very different from the first because it talked much more about the actual theories of mythology. In our class, I didn't feel that we spent much time on theories but more on the readings and working to develop our own take on stories. I liked our class approach much more than I would have liked focusing on theories :)
- this video was not as exciting to me, and it went much more into detail on the breakdown of myths.
- The graphics of this video were what really kept my attention, which I really appreciated. If it weren't for those, I would not have been able to pay attention well at all.
- The last video focuses on heroes, which I really enjoyed!
- I loved the Campbell quote that they included, I think that it represented how we think about heroes very well.
- I also was interested when they talked about Carl Jung. I have a psychology minor, and so it was cool for me to relate psychology and mythology.
Overall, I really liked these videos, especially the first and the third. This gave me good insight on the history of mythology, as well as how to relate mythology to other areas of my education.
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