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Spring 2017 | ENGL 3022 Section 001: Science Fiction and Fantasy (51956)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 203
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Variety of science fiction/fantasy authors, such as Mary Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?craig026+ENGL3022+Spring2017
- Class Description:
- Science Fiction and Fantasy introduces students to the study of classic and contemporary science fiction and fantasy literature. Using literary techniques, students will explore the alternate realities, characters, cultures, genders, races, ecologies, politics, settings, and technologies of science fiction and fantasy primarily through reading novels and stories. Major questions will include: What does speculation about the future tell us about our present and past? How does the unreal reveal about our real lives? To what extent does science fiction function as both escapist fantasy and prophetic reality?
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51956/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 October 2015
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3022 Section A94: Science Fiction and Fantasy (51985)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
College of Continuing Education
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Off Campus
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Variety of science fiction/fantasy authors, such as Mary Shelley, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission. Historical development focusing on major authors including Isaac Asimov, C.S. Lewis, Philip K. Dick, Ursula Le Guin, and others. Major ideas and theories including Freud's idea of the uncanny, Todorov's theory of the fantastic, and recent trends of the cyberpunk and interstitial arts movement.
- Class Description:
- This course will provide an overview of fantasy and science fiction literature, beginning with an examination of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and concluding with some of the recent trends in these categories. We will cover major works and authors that are important in the development of fantasy and science fiction literature, including works by by Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and J. K. Rowling. We will also read short works by H. P. Lovecraft, W. E. B. Du Bois, Octavia Butler, William Gibson, and Ted Chiang, among others. The course will also introduce theoretical approaches that will give you the framework necessary to think critically about the works you are reading.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51985/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 20 December 2016
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