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Nov 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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US 253 Science Fiction and Social Reality
This University Seminar will explore the genre of contemporary science fiction, focusing on several key themes that address the world outside the classroom. By reading several novels and watching and discussing television episodes and films, we will examine how science fiction—at once entertaining, inspiring, serious, instructive, and funny—reflects and shapes our current and future culture, beliefs, behavior, and selves. Students will read and watch texts in thematic units to gain an understanding of how science fiction frames questions about social issues and change (such as gender identity, racial equity, or environmental activism). Students will also conduct research on a contemporary social issue and have a chance to create and present their own work of speculative fiction that addresses how they would like to reflect and/or shape the conversation and the world of their own future with regards to that social issue.
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