This course will examine examples of Science Fiction or Speculative Fiction. Using both text and film, students will learn to understand how stories are created, developed, and what they have to say about the culture in which they were created.
Literature and the Environment explores the vital relationship between literature and environmental values and examines how the earth's land and seascapes shape human attitudes toward non-human nature and, conversely, how human attitudes have shaped non-human nature.
This course examines the production, consumption, construction, and reception of film, with particular emphasis on narrative structure and themes. It addresses how film has developed as a form of literature and how the technical aspects of film contribute to the narrative, the story of the film.
This course examines the conventions used in protest/activism writing both fiction and non-fiction through different genres such as slave narratives, muckracking journalism, protest literature, Beatnik writing, poetry and drama of Black Arts Movement and in critical periods such as women/feminist, LGBT, and Civil Rights movements. In addition, the course will examine current protest writing in academic writing and popular culture through editorials, columns, and social media.
