SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

ENGL 241

What is a person, a home, a nation, a world? What we now call "English literature" begins with these questions, imagining a cosmos filled with gods and heroes, liars and thieves, angels and demons, dragons and dungeons, whores and witches, drunken stupor and religious ecstasy. Authors crafted answers to these questions using technologies of writing from parchment to the printing press, and genres old and new, from epic and romance to drama and the sonnet. Develops skills of critical reading and writing that are essential to majors and non-majors alike.

ENGL/GEN&WS 359

Explores the genre of visionary fiction - speculative fiction written for social justice purposes - as a means to create, build and maintain new worlds. Examines the political potential of literature and multiple examples of visionary fiction.

LITTRANS 207

Explore the rich tradition of Slavic contributions to Science Fiction (SF). Survey early and contemporary works in the Czech, Polish, and Russian contexts, most of which are little known in the US but are nonetheless fundamental to SF as a world genre. Alongside reading these works, discuss and analyze film adaptations that have, in some cases, become more famous than written texts themselves.

ENGL 167

An introduction to British and American literature through particular writers and themes.

ENGL 169

An introduction to selected fiction, prose, drama and poetry written by Americans from the early twentieth century to the present day.