Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of Surrey
Course Title:
Science Fiction
Course Number:
ELI2038
Course Description:
This module explores the meanings and developments of science fiction throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as focusing on the relationship between this innovative form and the political and ethical issues addressed in the texts. Discussion and analysis will focus not only on what worlds or peoples are imagined in science fiction and why, but also on how such core features of science fiction have been developed, challenged and reconfigured by various political and historical movements and events (such as the cold war, feminism, black civil rights movements, imperial endeavours, global warming, among others). The module will give particular attention to technological developments and their relationship to the human, addressing the ways in which the human is rethought and reimagined through its interaction with technological innovation. Themes that will be addressed may include artificial intelligence, body modifications, alien species and/or worlds, dystopian and utopian imaginaries, future technologies, and
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
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