Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GREEN WORLDS: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Department: Environmental Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Examines the ways that science fiction has expressed and challenged ideas about nature, culture, society and politics and imagined alternative 'green' worlds. Will focus on authors such as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler and Paolo Bacigalupi: films such as "Wall-E" and "Avatar": and accessible secondary criticism. Cross-list: ENGL 269.