ENGL 3875 - Science Fiction

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: ENGL 1102 and either ENGL 2120 or ENGL 2130 with a C or higher.
Description
An introduction to the critical study of science fiction. The course explores the long history of speculative fiction and the cognitive estrangement created by science fiction as thought experiment. Possible topics include protoscience fiction before 1900, twentieth-century “pulp” SF (such as Asimov or Bradbury), cyberpunk, and contemporary space opera. We will also examine the extensive spread of the genre across the world, including but not limited to writing produced in the former Communist countries, South Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.