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Class number:
3345
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Title: Race and Speculative Fiction |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 8 |
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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: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LSC - 138-9 |
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Instructor(s): Wyss, Hilary |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a 200-level elective. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement, the UVSJ requirement, the elective requirement, or may be an additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
Science fiction and fantasy are powerful ways of imagining the world, both as it should or could be and as a cautionary example of what it might become. From Afrofuturism to Indigenous Futurism, contemporary writers of color are using the fantastic to challenge oppressive structures and imagine different ways of being in the world. In this course we will examine the work of African American writers such as Octavia Butler, Asian American writers such as Ted Chiang, and Indigenous writers such as Cherie Dimaline, Louise Erdrich, and Stephen Graham Jones, who use this genre both to explore alternative histories and also to offer a redemptive vision of a future in which alternative ways of being in the world have the potential to save us all. |