- Code
- ELL 442
- Name
- Science Fiction Literature
- Semester
- 0
- Lecture hours
- 4.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 4.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
This course will study the influence of science and fantasy as an expression of literature and compare them with our sense of reality. Scientific and fantastic literature will be considered as a form of human and cosmic narrative. As Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content (such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life), it will be interesting for students to develop their knowledge. In this course it will be explored the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, as science fiction has been called a "literature of ideas". Authors commonly use science fiction as a framework to explore politics, identity, desire, morality, social structure, and other literary themes; as such it will be a challenge for students of this course to study all these points of view.
- Objectives
-
The main objectives of this course are: 1. Students know more about science fiction and develop their critical thinking towards this subject and different issues related to it. 2. Students investigate the nature of science-fiction texts answering the questions like: how does this kind of literature help us to explain the world in which we live? How is the relationship of these texts in the world today and in the future? 3. Students will be able to recognize recurring themes and how they function within the genre of science fiction
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Introduction to the science-fiction literature.
- 2
- Genesis, Definitions and Wollstonecraft
- 3
- Utopia and Dystopia
- 4
- George Orwell - Animal Farm
- 5
- Student presentations
- 6
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
- 7
- Student presentations
- 8
- Mid term exam
- 9
- George Orwell - 1984
- 10
- Student presentations
- 11
- Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
- 12
- Student presentations
- 13
- Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
- 14
- Student presentations
- 15
- Summary
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will understand the role of science fiction in explaining today's world.
- 2
- Students will analyze and discuss the relationship of this literature with the main existing theories.
- 3
- Students will evaluate and criticize works of this genre as well as the key issues
- 4
- Students will be able to identify and explain the relevant materials and concepts drawn from appropriate range of disciplines
- 5
- Students will deploy critical perspectives drawn from the study of Science fiction, film, literary or cultural theory
- 6
- Students will synthesise ideas from a range of sources
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 1 20% 20%
- Projects
- 1 20% 20%
- Term projects
- 1 20% 20%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 0% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 80%
- Final exam percent
- 20%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 2 10 20
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 151
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.04
- ECTS
- 6.00