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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21963
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Human Diversity
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
To create just, equitable worlds, we must first imagine them. In this course, we will consider Afrofuturism, a cultural aesthetic that describes the interface between the African diaspora and technology, but we will also explore the powerful potential of the black visionary imagination to reclaim black histories and conjure alternative black futures. Genres closely related to Afrofuturism such as black speculative writing, African futurism, and visionary fiction all engage in a kind of radical imagining which can serve as the foundation for transformative action. Considering these in the course, students will engage the intersection of the black imagination and social change. How can imagining fictive worlds help us to transform the one we currently live in? How can speculative creativity enable possibilities for social justice? Writers, artists, and thinkers will include: Walidah Imarisha, Adriene Marie Brown, Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemison, Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, Sun Ra, Wangechi Mutu, and Samuel Delany among others. This course satisfies both the core Literature and Writing requirement for students who started that requirement with an ENGL 201-204 class and the core Human Diversity requirement. It also satisfies an allied requirement for select business majors, a Diversity Literature distribution requirement for English majors, and the WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisites: ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204.
4 Credits