ENGL 224 - History of Science Fiction Semester Offered: First Semester Credits (Range): 4 Hours Attribute: 4 HU, WR New Course added 07.08.12.
Why Science Fiction? What does SF uniquely allow us to say? How does it enable us to think and imagine differently? This course surveys the history of SF beginning in the nineteenth century in the context of developments in science, technology, imperialism, and capitalism that influenced it. Authors include Mary Shelley, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Samuel Butler, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin. British. Enrollment Limit: 30 Instructor: J. Kuskey Prerequisites & Notes For complete prerequisites, please refer to the English Program section titled ‘200-Level Courses.’
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