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An Intensive Reading of the Tao Te Ching/Daode jing 道德經 Part II General Humanities China
Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Ecocriticism
History
Japan
Le Guin
Magic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Poetry
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Book Club: Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman NOT PUBLIC Julian Barr Fantasy Studies Creative Writing
Dungeons & Dragons
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
Margaret Weiss
Tracy Hickman
Worldbuilding
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Fantasy
Magic
Book Club: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Julian Barr Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Fantasy
Magic
Monsters
Book Club: The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander NOT PUBLIC Julian Barr Fantasy Studies Children’s Literature
Comparative Mythology
Creative Writing
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Lloyd Alexander
Magic
Monsters
Worldbuilding
Children's Literature Modules: Exploring the Magic, Depth, and Adventures in Children's Books General Humanities British Literature
Children’s Literature
Classical Literature
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Magic
Monsters
Worldbuilding
Young Adult Fiction
Creative Writing: A Flash of Brilliance Writing Flash Fiction Creative Writing Collaborative Feedback
Composition
Creative Writing
Epic Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Magic
Metaphysics
Monsters
Science Fiction
Time Travel
Weird Fiction
Workshops
Worldbuilding
Creative Writing: Historical Fantasy NOT PUBLIC Julian Barr Creative Writing Collaborative Feedback
Creative Writing
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
History
Magic
Workshops
Worldbuilding
Demons and Exorcism in History NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Bible
History
Magic
Metaphysics
Religious Studies
Discovering the Discworld: Aching and Growing Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Fantasy
Magic
Terry Pratchett
Discovering the Discworld: Quis Custodiet Custard? Fantasy Studies British Literature
Fantasy
Magic
Terry Pratchett
Discovering the Discworld: The Existential Angst of Death Fantasy Studies British Literature
Fantasy
Magic
Terry Pratchett
Egyptian Book of the Dead Shawn Gaffney Language Ancient Middle East
Comparative Mythology
History
Magic
Religious Studies
Egyptian Magical Texts NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Magic
Fairy Tales Studies: Exploring Fairy Tales from Around the World and from Different Authors Fantasy Studies Adaptation Theory
British Literature
Children’s Literature
Comparative Mythology
Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Japan
Magic
Monsters
Worldbuilding
Hieroglyphs Reading Module: Book of the Dead NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney Language Advanced Languages
Ancient Middle East
Magic
Religious Studies
Intermediate Egyptian Magic NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Magic
In the Age of Wonder: The Many Themes of Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Fantasy Studies Anthropocene
Comparative Mythology
Drama
Ecocriticism
Epic Fantasy
Ethics
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Film Studies
Magic
Metaphysics
Monsters
Weird Fiction
Worldbuilding
Introduction to Ancient Magic Non-Sequential Series Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Fall Survey 2023
Magic
Introduction to Ancient Magic: Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern World Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Comparative Mythology
Magic
Religious Studies
Introduction to Ancient Magic: Magic in the Greco-Roman World Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Comparative Mythology
Magic
Religious Studies
The Greco-Roman World
Introduction to Ancient Magic: The Earliest Magic Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Comparative Mythology
Magic
Religious Studies
Introduction to Egyptian Magic NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
Magic
Introduction to Japanese Religions Series General Humanities Anime
Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Ethics
History
Japan
Magic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Poetry
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Introduction to Japanese Religions I First in the Series General Humanities Anime
Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Ethics
History
Japan
Magic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Poetry
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Introduction to Japanese Religions II Continuing Series General Humanities Anime
Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Ethics
History
Japan
Magic
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Poetry
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Magic: Grimoires 1 NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
History
Magic
Metaphysics
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Magic: Grimoires 2 NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
History
Magic
Metaphysics
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Magic: Islamic Magic and Occultism NOT PUBLIC Shawn Gaffney General Humanities Ancient Middle East
History
Magic
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Reading L.M. Montgomery as Fantasy: Part 1: Anne of Green Gables Brenton Dickieson General Humanities Canada
Children’s Literature
Creative Writing
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Magic
Modernism
Romanticism
Speculative Fiction
Women's Studies
Worldbuilding
Young Adult Fiction
Shakespeare's Epic Fairy Tales: Pericles and Cymbeline Liam Daley General Humanities British Literature
Drama
Epic Fantasy
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
History
Magic
Renaissance
Shakespeare
The Middle Ages
The Argonauts: Apollonius of Rhodes NOT PUBLIC Julian Barr General Humanities Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
History
Magic
Monsters
The Greco-Roman World
Travel Literature
The Dark is Rising Sequence Non-Sequential Series Sara Brown Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Greenwitch Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone Sara Brown Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fall Survey 2023
Fantasy
Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: The Dark Is Rising Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
The Dark is Rising Sequence: The Grey King Fantasy Studies British Literature
Children’s Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Magic
The Trojan Quest: Aeneid 1 NOT PUBLIC Julian Barr General Humanities Classical Literature
Cultural Studies
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
History
Magic
Monsters
Poetry
The Greco-Roman World
The Witch in Fact and Fiction Anna Milon Fantasy Studies Children’s Literature
Fall Survey 2023
Fantasy
History
Magic
Tolkien and the Romantics: Dark Romanticism and the Gothic Literary Tradition Will Sherwood General Humanities Anthropocene
British Literature
Classical Literature
Ecocriticism
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Gothic Literature
JRR Tolkien
Literacy
Magic
Metaphysics
Monsters
Philosophy
Poetry
Romanticism
The Middle Ages
Tolkien and the Romantics: Forging Myth and History Will Sherwood General Humanities Anthropocene
Arthurian Literature
British Literature
Classical Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Gothic Literature
History
JRR Tolkien
Literacy
Magic
Metaphysics
Monsters
Philosophy
Poetry
Romanticism
The Middle Ages
Time Travel
Travel Literature
Worldbuilding
Tolkien and the Romantics: Imagining and Dreaming Will Sherwood General Humanities British Literature
Classical Literature
Epic Fantasy
Fantasy
Gothic Literature
JRR Tolkien
Literacy
Magic
Metaphysics
Oct Showcase 2023
Owen Barfield
Poetry
Romanticism
The Inklings
The Middle Ages
Time Travel
October 2023
Tolkien & Magic NOT PUBLIC Fantasy Studies JRR Tolkien
Magic
Religious Studies
The Inklings
Viking Hogwarts: A Guide to Old Norse Magic General Humanities Comparative Mythology
Cultural Studies
Fantasy
Germanic Studies
History
Magic
May Showcase 2024
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Viking Age
May 2024
Viking Hogwarts: Battle Magic and Mythology General Humanities Comparative Mythology
Cultural Studies
Fantasy
Germanic Studies
History
Magic
Monsters
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Viking Age
Viking Hogwarts: Shamanistic World Views in Norse Magic General Humanities Comparative Mythology
Cultural Studies
Fantasy
Germanic Studies
History
Magic
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Viking Age
Viking Hogwarts: The World Of Old Norse Sorcery Non-Sequential Series General Humanities Comparative Mythology
Cultural Studies
Fantasy
Germanic Studies
History
Magic
Religious Studies
The Middle Ages
Viking Age
William Butler Yeats: The Magical Modernist NOT PUBLIC General Humanities British Literature
Magic
Modernism
Philosophy
Poetry
Religious Studies
Yōkai and Legends: Exploring the Weird in Japanese and Latin American Cultures Fantasy Studies Cultural Studies
East Asian Studies
Fairy Tales
Fantasy
Japan
Latin American Studies
Magic
Monsters
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