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Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)
CRN: 21710
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 210
In its fascinating evolution, science fiction has always functioned as a lens to think about society, whether it's Mary Shelley in 1818 looking on as Victor Frankenstein turns to modern experiments with electricity in the laboratory or Ernest Cline in 2011 imagining the energy crisis and global warming in a near-future world. We will approach the genre of SF as a mode of thought-experimentation and world-building that problematizes actual and possible political, cultural, natural, human, and techno-scientific realities. Among the themes included are environmental apocalypse, the alien, utopias and dystopias, race, gender, and sexuality, religion and culture. Possible texts (written and filmic) are Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), The Left Hand of Darkness, District 9, The Handmaid's Tale, Parable of the Sower, The Fat Year, and Black Mirror.
3 Credits