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Class number:
3456
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Title: Reading Science Fiction |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 0.50 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 4 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MR: 6:30PM-8:00PM, UNASSIGNED - |
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Instructor(s): Truman, James |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: Open only to students in the Trinity Prison Seminar Series/Hartford Correctional Center. |
Course Description:
It is difficult to come up with a single definition of science fiction, but one of the most useful comes from Rod Serling, who called it "the improbable made possible." In this class we will examine how authors have used the creation of possible futures and alternate worlds to address difficult questions about society, morality, and the very concept of "progress." If all things are possible, then what miracles.and what horrors? How do these stories shape our understanding of what it means to be human? We will ask these questions (in discussion and in writing) of a variety of sci-fi texts from the 19th Century to the present. |