Looking For Cryptozoology Courses?

The following, which is a special guest blog by Carolyn Ettinger, founder of the Central Virginia Cryptozoology Club, is a compilation of recent and historical information on cryptozoology courses. – LC

Since there seems to be so much interest both here and on many online blogs about courses in cryptozoology, I have compiled a comprehensive list based on my own research. This includes a section on current courses and degrees (including two new ones, one which begins in January 2009) and a section on past courses (e.g. perhaps these colleges would be amenable to bringing them back in the future). I’ll also keep this list ongoing at my own website, which will have updates and changes as they occur. I hope everyone finds this helpful! ~ Carolyn Ettinger

Institute of Metaphysics
Online correspondence course offering a BS, Masters, and Doctoral levels of study in cryptozoology.

Pangea Academy
Offers five online courses: Cryptozoology Basics, Famous & Infamous Florida Cryptids, Legendary Primates, Swamp Ape Practicum, and Jaguarundi Practicum.

Universal Class Online
Cryptozoology 101
Continuing Education Credit (1.0) Option.

**Please be advised that these may not be accredited institutions or courses. This information is provided as a service and should be checked with the institution for accuracy. Take at your own risk.

University of Southern Maine
Cryptozoology Course taught by Loren Coleman (1989) [The course was given for credit, as well as was a for-credit 90-minute lecture presentation too. From 1989-2003, within the COR 126 course I taught, entitled “The Documentary,” one-third of the content of the course was often cryptozoological. – LC]

Indiana University
Course: “Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch: An Anthropological Perspective” (Year?)

University of Calgary
CSPG Palaeontology Division
Fri. April 19 (Year?), 7:30 pm, Mount Royal College, Room B108
Anthony P. Russell (U of C, Biological Sciences), “Cryptozoology, science and scientists: The case for and against Cadborosaurus”

**Please be advised that these may not be accredited institutions or courses. This information is provided as a service and should be checked with the institution for accuracy. Take at your own risk.

The ongoing website where this listing of courses will be updated is being maintained by Ms. Carolyn Ettinger.

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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