Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2015-2016
FWIS 104 - SCIENCE FICTION SURVEY
Long Title: SCIENCE FICTION SURVEY
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: This course will survey science fiction as a literary genre from its beginnings in H.G. Wells to the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century and then to the present day in order to investigate how science fiction imagines the future through engagements with posthumanism, technological singularity, and environmental crisis.
Course URL: http://pwc.rice.edu/