Course Catalog - 2014-2015

     

ENGL 269 - SCI FI AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Long Title: GREEN WORLDS: SCIENCE FICTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Department: English
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: ENST 265.