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May 09, 2025
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GWS166 PO - WitchcraftWhen Offered: Irregularly.
Instructor(s): A. Osgood
Credit: 1
From the Witch of Endor to Harry Potter, the witch has become a lodestone for debates surrounding fantasy, gender, race, religion, and sexuality. This course explores the history of witchcraft in cross-cultural and cross-historical perspective. Under what circumstances did concern about witches arise and gain traction? In what ways were accusations of witchcraft gendered and raced? How have people today sought to rehabilitate witches, or deploy them for their own purposes? This course argues that the witch is a revelatory figure. If we pay close attention to her, we can see vast terrains of human interaction that might otherwise go unnoticed in historical analysis.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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