AJL17084 Fear for Your Life: Evolution, Cognition, and Frightening Entertainment

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2021
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mathias Clasen (lecturer), doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Stefan Veleski, B.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJL01002 Practical English II || AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/12, only registered: 0/12
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
This course introduces students to evolutionary and biocultural literary and media theory, allowing students to develop a critical understanding of how evolutionary psychology can inform humanities scholarship. The course focuses analytically on modern American horror media (literature, film, video games, and haunted attractions) and discusses how horror entertainment reflects salient sociocultural anxieties while targeting evolved dispositions in human psychology. The textbook for the course is Mathias Clasen’s Why Horror Seduces (OUP, 2017), but additional scholarly and scientific articles will be assigned. Moreover, students will be required to familiarize themselves with a number of horror texts across media.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Teacher's information
The course will be taught between October 18 and October 22, 2021/ Monday to Friday. There will be two blocks per day: 10–11:40 and 14–15:40. Room G316
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