Id: 041907 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

This course focuses on accounts of witchcraft and witchcraft trials, including traditions imported from England and both little-known and infamous cases in the American colonies. We'll read original court transcripts and non-fiction, fiction, and poetry about the trials created during the period and down through to the present day. Notable cases to be discussed include The Witches of Warboys, England (1593), Mary Parsons of Northampton, Massachusetts (1656, 1674), Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts (1683), the Connecticut Witchcraft Trials (1647 to 1663), and the Salem Witch Trials (1692), Authors include Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Atwood. Students will write several short papers and develop a final project of their own design.

Prerequisites

Pre-Req: ENGL.1020 College Writing II.

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