The course will provide opportunities to study the more popular science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to relate the selections of science fiction to Victorian, Modern, and post-Modern literature and critical theory. Emphasis will be placed on understanding science fiction as a reflection on and reaction to developing technologies and modernist philosophies. Students will study the works of Wells, Verne, Heinlein, Clarke, Bradbury, Vonnegut, King, and Shatner.
Prerequisite Courses