2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HUM 200H - SUPERHEROES IN LIT AND CULTURE


Credits: Four
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course will look at the rise and evolution of one of 20th Century America’s most prevalent figures, the superhero. Students will examine the philosophical and cultural problems that costumed heroes provoke by looking at the recent wave of superhero novels, films, and academic analyses, as well as by looking at comics and graphic novels.