ENGL 120

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Science Fiction

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the study of science fiction, the genre that has both contributed to scientific knowledge and attempted to make sense of the changes that have taken place in the world since the Enlightenment, the onset of industrialization, and the acceleration of technology. Texts are taken from a variety of literary and pop culture sources: pulps and magazines, novels and films, comics and TV shows.

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ENGL 120 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62711	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	150 English Building	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Info: This course explores science fiction by attending to the many literary questions it raises, including how authors and critics have defined the genre. But the role of science fiction—at least according to author Judith Merrill—is “to explore, to discover [or] to learn” something about the nature of “reality.” At the heart of this course, then, are also philosophical, historical, and ethical questions crucial to the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. What is the relationship between works of imagination and technological innovation? Between technological innovation and notions of the “human”? How are humans gendered? How does the category of the “human” relate to that of species, or biological kind? Drawing on representative science fiction texts, supplemented by video and film, we will discuss these and related issues. Required reading includes novels by Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, Samuel Delaney, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Michel Faber, and Nalo Hopkinson
	51914	Lecture-Discussion	X	12:30PM -1:45PM	MW	115 English Building	Littlefield, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Info: Zombies! Pod People! Martians! Robots! This course will introduce you to science fiction, a genre that expresses some of our culture’s deepest fears, as well as its greatest hopes; that provides creative answers to fundamental questions about the nature of the universe and humans’ place in it; that also warns us about the possible results of our society’s current errors, and forecasts the infinite possibilities open to us. Texts for this course will be drawn from a variety of early and contemporary authors, including Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Kate Wilhelm, Margaret Atwood, and Max Brooks. We’ll watch films and TV shows (The Walking Dead), listen to radio broadcasts (War of the Worlds), read some short stories (and a few novels). Our approach will be discussion- and project-based, but will also likely include response papers. No exams!