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Fall 2019  |  ENGL 3022 Section 001: Science Fiction and Fantasy (19534)

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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
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
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Course Catalog Description:
Science Fiction and Fantasy will introduce 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. Questions may include: What does speculation about the future tell us about our present and past? What does the unreal reveal about our real lives? To what extent does science fiction function as both escapist fantasy and prophetic reality?
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19534/1199

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 3022 Section 002: Science Fiction and Fantasy (20891)

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
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Science Fiction and Fantasy will introduce 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. Questions may include: What does speculation about the future tell us about our present and past? What does the unreal reveal about our real lives? To what extent does science fiction function as both escapist fantasy and prophetic reality?
Class Notes:
Indigenous Sci Fi and Futurisms: This course examines depictions of Indigenous futures in global Anglophone novels, short stories, speeches, graphic novels, political tracts, poetry, and films. Throughout the course we will explore how critical Indigenous methodologies, which emphasize tribal sovereignty and decolonization, are crucial to Indigenous futurist politics and aesthetics that contest the extractive and exterminatory logics of settler states. Rather than taking a regional or hemispheric approach, our investigation will be organized according to conventional sci fi genres of slipstream, alien contact, and apocalypse, but also to non-genre articulations of Indigenous futurity. By juxtaposing futurisms from different Indigenous authors, we will be able to make connections between them that highlight both their common sovereignty struggles and shared utopian visions, but also how these imagined futures grow from the specific needs and desires of Indigenous communities.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20891/1199

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