LLT 180 - From Hero to Superhero

Credit Hours: 3
General Education Course: Focus on Cultural Competence

This course explores the depictions of heroes and heroines in literature and art and inspires students to think critically about the development of our value systems, ethics, and self-identity. Readings will include Greco-Roman texts on a heroic theme, and students will investigate heroes from diverse cultural, historical, and gendered perspectives. Classical heroes studied may include Achilles, Mulan, Penelope, and Hercules.

Lecture contact hours: 3

Typically offered: Fall, Spring