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Class number:
3491
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Title: The End of the World |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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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: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, MC - 313 |
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Instructor(s): Truman, James |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
Visions of the end of the world hold a fascination for popular culture, not just as nihilistic fantasies of disaster, but as revelations of the potential for a new world that follows the apocalypse. While eschatology (the study of the end of time) and millennialism are longstanding philosophical and theological concerns, this class will primarily focus on contemporary apocalyptic texts, including novels like The Parable of the Sower, films like Mad Max; Fury Road, television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and dramas like Angels in America, to unpack not just where our ideas about the apocalypse come from, but to examine how imagining the struggle for the fate of the world helps people conceive of society and of themselves. |