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 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62711	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 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