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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025
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FWIS 130 001 (CRN: 15640)
POSTHUMANISM
Long Title: POSTHUMANISM: LITERARY WARNINGS AND, MAYBE, SOME HOPE FOR THE HUMAN
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Instructor: Smith, Amanda
Meeting: 9:00AM - 9:50AM MWF (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025)
Part of Term: First Year Writing
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 16
Section Enrolled: 0
Enrollment data as of: 10-AUG-2025 10:08AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: In this class, we will explore E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, each of which lends itself to new questions about what it has meant to be human and how that meaning may be shifting.