We will read a diverse range of modern science fiction stories with an aim toward understanding how these texts represent, critique, and imagine alternatives to existing social, political, economic, and environmental conditions. Through stories by writers such as Ray Bradbury, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ted Chiang, we will explore how science fiction reimagines and challenges traditional ideas about ourselves, complicating easy distinctions between mind and body, human and machine, alien and native, self and other.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Instructor: Brubaker

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.