Compiled by Arthur B. Evans and R.D. Mullen
Although a few accept been hardly edited to save amplitude and facilitate paging (“science fiction” has frequently been bargain to “sf”), the responses to our assay are for the best allotment printed verbatim, which accounts for the differences in adumbrated clairvoyant and tone. Best of the advance descriptions were originally printed in the college’s accustomed annal or in the instructor’s syllabus. In some cases the advance is a accustomed advance in which some sf, utopian, or fantasy texts are used. The advertisement is alphabetical by accompaniment or province, except that entries accustomed too backward for able adjustment arise at the end of the list.
Alabama. University of South Alabama, Mobile
EH 201. Science Fiction. Analyses of abbreviate stories, beheld from the postmodern perspective. TEXTS: Anthologies of abbreviate stories, currently The Norton Book of Science Fiction.—Thomas A. Brennan, English Dept., Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688.
Alabama. Troy Accompaniment University, Troy
English 326. Science Fiction. Explores the literary, social, and brand accent of science fiction in the twentieth century. Advance objectives: 1. to appeciate the adjustment and adeptness of the works studied, 2. to advance an compassionate of the attributes of abstruse fiction, 3. to accredit acceptance to assay affair and adjustment in literature, 4. to advance abilities in aboriginal research, 5. to advance adeptness at presenting annual in chic discussions, articulate reports, and accounting papers. Advance content: 1. absolute overview of the development of science fiction, 2. definitions of key agreement and techniques, 3. in ceremony work, primary focus on theme, with absorption to anecdotal anatomy and characterization, 4. compassionate the altered trends developing in the genre, 5. altercation of the role of science and technology in avant-garde life, as reflected in the works. TEXTS: Dick, Ubik, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lem, Solaris, Shippey, ed. The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories.—Jim Davis, English Dept., Troy Accompaniment Univ., Troy, AL 36082.
Alaska. University of Alaska, Fairbanks
English 111. Apprentice English. In one articulation of the semester, we brash Fredric Brown’s “Arena” and compared it to the 1960’s Star Trek version of the story. Not alone were beheld similarities and differences discussed but additionally we estimated attainable sociopolitical affidavit for these changes.—Todd Sformo, c/o ASIC, ABE/GED Dept., PO Box 749, Barrow, AK 99723.
English 692. Academy on 20th Aeon Fiction. Sf works acclimated actuality and there in several courses. Sf TEXT in English 692: Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Eric Heyne, English Dept., Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775.
Alberta. University of Alberta, Edmonton
English 483. Studies in the Abstruse of Accustomed Culture: Sf and Postmodernism. Sf and postmodernism accept been affiliated in altered bureau in contempo years. Postmodern theorists accept taken up Sf to actualization how the acceptable boundaries of brand accept burst in the aqueous new adeptness of postmodernity. Acceptance of the Anarchy archetype accept angry to sf texts as touchstones for compassionate the transformation of Western adeptness into a adeptness of chaos, while added critics of both sf and postmodernism altercate that sf has become the capital arcane anatomy of the postmodern era, aback its all-encompassing protocols and abreast systems are able to cope with the altered and desperate transformations, abnormally in information/simulation technologies, of the postindustrial West. It has been argued that “sf has an advantage over best added disciplines in that it has had commodity like a admission of postmodernism built-in in its futurism for abounding years,” and that “with the adverse abortion of acceptable humanistic thought, sf has rushed in with a treasury of able metaphors and icons capturing the absoluteness of afraid borders: the Changeable Man, xenogenesis, the cyborg, the simulacrum, viral language, cyberspace, Mechs and Shapers, and abounding others.” In this course, we will attending at altered texts from the accomplished three decades which will acquiesce us to assay the abounding admission amid sf and postmodernism. There will be allusive analyses as able-bodied as abutting alone readings of specific texts. TEXTS: Banks, The Player of Games; Dick, Ubik; Fowler, Sarah Canary; Gibson, Neuromancer; Jones, White Queen; Le Guin, Fisherman of the Inland Sea; Powers, The Anubis Gates; Russ, The Changeable Man; Ryman, The Child Garden; Stephenson, Snow Crash; Sterling, ed, Mirrorshades; Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence.—Douglas Barbour, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Canada T6G 2E5.
Alberta. University of Calgary, Calgary
English 393. Science Fiction. This second-year “basic” sf advance is accomplished annually by altered English dept. faculty, including Susan Stone-Blackburn, R. Ramraj, Linda Howell, Janis Svilpis, et al. English 393 explores varieties of Alterity in science fiction through the 19th and 20th centuries. It investigates adverse creatures, absurd voyages, aberrant worlds, awe-inspiring science, and amazing technologies. Questions about the alteration amusing impacts of abstruse and science advice to anatomy chic lectures and discussions, while blur viewings assay the beheld branch of the science fiction imagination. TEXTS: Benford, Timescape, Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Zamyatin, We, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Warrick et al. eds., Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology. FILMS: Metropolis, Blade Runner.—Susan Stone-Blackburn, 3323 Constable Pl. NW, Calgary, AB, CANADA T2L 0K9, (403) 220-3153, “sstonebl@acs.ucalgary.ca”.
English 453. Accommodation in Twentieth Aeon American Fiction: Abreast American Science Fiction. In the 1960s, American science fiction entered a new era of analytic respectability. Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel Delany opened the doors of the academy to this accustomed literature. These and added writers such as Joanna Russ, Suzette Haden Elgin, Greg Bear, and Gregory Benford will be brash for their alloy of science fiction conventions with arcane composure and abreast thought. TEXTS: Delany, Babel 17, Nova, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Russ, The Changeable Man, Benford, Timescape, Bear, Blood Music, Elgin, Native Tongue.—Stone-Blackburn.
English 453. Accommodation in Twentieth Aeon American Fiction: American Women’s Abstruse Fiction. A abstraction of abstruse and dystopian novels that portray a spectrum of accession societies. Texts ambit from fantasy to science fiction and present a array of perspectives on gender and society. TEXTS: Gilman, Herland, Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Russ, The Changeable Man, Gearhart, The Wanderground, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country.—Stone-Blackburn.
Alberta. Mount Royal College, Calgary
English 3393. Academy in Science Fiction. A advance brash to accustom the apprentice with a accession of aloft authors of science fiction and their works, with several of the aloft accommodation to be activate in sf, with the history of sf, and with the affiliation amid sf as an art anatomy and science as a admission of acquainted reality. In particular, the advance will strive 1. to accustom the apprentice with the precursors to avant-garde sf, with the history and change of the genre, and with its abreast manifestations, such as New Wave, Feminist, and Cyberpunk, all of this with appropriate advertence to the affray amid science and adoration and to attempts at their reconciliation; 2. to advance a analogue of sf, including cogent abundant differentia that this brand can be acclaimed from added agnate genres, such as fantasy abstruse and gothic novels; 3. to appraise sf as allusive abstruse aback its apperception and admission cut aloft the national, cultural, and linguistic barriers that frequently circumscribe added genres; 4. to assay the sf blur and to delving its affiliation to the abstruse of science fiction; 5. to see in sf a bureau for bridging the gap amid what C.P. Snow has alleged “the two cultures,” science and the humanities, inasmuch as this brand is both authentic and literary; 6. to accretion a basal compassionate of the sciences that anatomy the accomplishments for science fiction, such as astronomy, relativity theory, anarchy and thermodynamics, the mathematics of chaos, ecology, computer technology, genetics, and parapsychology; 7. to admission a authentic way of seeing as it is encouraged by sf; that is, to accept the sf chance as presenting a critique, about ironic, of present amusing conditions, and as exploring the attributes and banned of our own reality; 8. to ascertain the admission amid sf and utopian/dystopian anticipation and of these concepts to the problems of chargeless will and determinism; 9. to accost the catechism of whether technology should be apparent as humanity’s saviour or destroyer, and to chronicle this catechism to the botheration of animal consciousness, which itself is a way of allurement “What does it beggarly to be human?” 10. to accept how the adverse appointment can be beheld as a apologue for the assay of the cerebral and existential abject of animal alertness and how the adverse mural maps symbolically the animal condition; 11. to ascertain a array of accession futures, acquainted the bendability of animal attributes and the airiness of civilization. What, in effect, can we become? How can we accomplish a adapted abutting and abstain apocalypse? What, therefore, is the accord in altruism amid the adeptness to acknowledge and the adeptness to destroy? 12. to abode and aback one’s annual on these issues and their circle with our texts in a clear, literate, and actuating manner. TEXTS: Asimov, I, Robot, Shelley, Frankenstein, Lem, Solaris, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Pohl & Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants, Elgin, Native Tongue, Kapp, The Anarchy Weapon, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Wells, The Time Machine, Zamyatin, We, Dick, Martian Time-Slip, Sturgeon, Venus Added X, Brunner, Shockwave Rider, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Binsburg, ed. The Ultimate Threshold, Shippey, ed. The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. FILMS: Blade Runner, Firestarter, Altered States, C.H.U.D., Them, Alien, Aliens, Brazil, Outland, Bashful Running, Adventure for Fire, Dr. Strangelove, War of the Worlds, The Day the Apple Stood Still, 2001, 2010, Total Recall, Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, The Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers (among others).—Richard M. Collier, English Dept., Mount Royal College, 4825 Richard Rd. SW, Calgary, AB, CANADA T3E 6K6.
Arizona. Arizona Accompaniment University, Tempe
ENG 461. Women & Literature. This advance is brash as an overview of women’s sf and fantasy. TEXTS: Bradley, The Shattered Chain, Norton, Lavender Green Magic, McCaffrey, Dragonsong, Kidd, ed. Millenial Women, Jackson, The Sundial, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Wilhelm, Juniper Time, Russ, The Changeable Man, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Lessing, The Marriages amid Zones Three, Four, and Five.—Thelma Shinn Richard, PO Box 870302, Dept. of English, Arizona Accompaniment Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287.
Arkansas. Henderson Accompaniment University, Arkadelphia
English 3623. Science Fiction. In this course, the apprentice will apprentice about the accomplishments of the science-fiction genre, about the aloft accommodation in avant-garde sf, and about the types and classifications of sf. He will become acquainted with the aloft writers of sf and with the aloft annual publications in this field. TEXTS: Rabkin, Science Fiction: A Absolute Perspective, Huxley, Brave New World, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants, Gibson, Neuromancer.—Larry Don Frost, Box 7581, Arkadelphia, AR 71999.
Arkansas. University of Arkansas, Little Rock
English 3360.02. Alleged Topics: Science Fiction. This advance looks at the arcane origins of science fiction and traces its advance into the twentieth century. Accent is placed on apologue the arcane affection of sf. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Shelley, Frankenstein, Verne, Chance to the Centre of the Earth, Ballard, The Drowned World, Lem, Solaris, Orwell, 1984, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds.—Steve Anderson, Dept. of English, Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204.
California. Biola University, La Mirada
Seminar/ENGL 470. Affair or affair varies. Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Annual was acclimated for Canadian Abstruse and for a advance alleged “Totalitarianism and Guilt.” —Brian Ingraffia, English Dept., 138000 Biola Ave., La Mirada, CA 906
California. California Maritime Academy, Vallejo
EGL320. Abstruse of the Fantastic. This advance centers about the annual and assay of what may be about termed “quality abnormal fiction.” It attempts to ascertain the abstruse of the absurd in agreement that the boilerplate apprentice may acknowledge and appropriately chronicle to, aural the aloft ambience of a authentic arcane genre. The capital qualities of the novels and abbreviate acceptance that will be dealt with in this advance are the hunt for a acceptable anatomy to the “unanswerable” and a way of ambidextrous with “the associate abaft the experience. . .the abandoned aloft the face of order.” TEXTS: Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, Stoker, Dracula, The Jewel of Seven Stars, Stevenson, The Aberrant Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Shelley, Frankenstein, Rice, Annual with the Vampire, Bradbury, Commodity Wicked This Way Comes, Wilson, Lifeforce.—Kathryn D. Marocchino, 200 Maritime Academy Dr., Vallejo, CA 94590, (707) 648-4272
California. California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
English 380. Abreast Arcane Ideas. A accommodation advance whose affair in the bounce division is usually science fiction. It is best about accomplished by David Kann, but this bounce is actuality accomplished by the undersigned. The 1996 affair is Adamantine Science Fiction; some of the advance will absorb Internet work. TEXTS: Baxter, The Time Ships, Bear, Affective Mars, Butler, Dawn, Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Piercy, He, She, and It, Robinson, Red Mars, Sheffield, Proteus in the Underworld, Stephenson, Snow Crash, Sterling, Abundant Weather.—Michael Orth, English Department, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, “morth@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu”.
California. Claremont Alum School, Claremont
English 371. Abstruse and Technology. Examines arcane treatments of technology from the backward 19th aeon to the cyberpunk era. TEXTS: Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Dick, Martian Time-Slip, Pynchon, V., Gravity’s Rainbow. FILMS: Terminator, Blade Runner.—Marc Redfield, Dept. of English, Claremont Alum School, Claremont, CA 91711-6163.
California. Claremont McKenna College, Claremont
LIT 105. The Adverse in Science Fiction. A abstraction of the adverse worlds, beings, and accommodation in science fiction and the bureau the adverse becomes a annotation on our lives and conditions. Neither a history of science fiction, nor a assay of its varieties, this advance concentrates on the abnormality of the adverse and the appropriate accommodation of sf to extend our alertness through the appointment with the ambiguities, possibilities, and accord in the at-first unfamiliar. TEXTS: Stapledon, Star Maker, Wells, The Time Machine, Sturgeon, Added Than Human, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Russ, The Changeable Man, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Gibson, Neuromancer, Lem, Solaris.—Langdon Elsbree, Bauer Center, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA 91211, (909) 621-8000 ext. 2765, fax (909) 621-8249.
California. Foothill College, Los Altos Hills
Philosophy 2. Aesthetics of Freedom. Axial catechism of this course: Are abandon and amends attainable for ceremony actuality in society? What are abandon and amends in agreement of a way of action or a action style? What economic, social, and abstruse changes charge be fabricated to accomplish abandon for ceremony purpose? In accession to the texts listed below, the advance includes readings in or lectures on Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Lenin, Pope Leo XIII, Beveridge, and Hitler. TEXTS: Cohen, Four Systems; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Skinner, Walden Two; Huxley, Brave New World; Gore, Apple in the Balance; and The Soviet Constitution, revised 1976.—W.E. Tinsley, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA 95030.
California. Harvey Mudd College, Claremont
Interdisciplinary 26. Accession to Women’s Studies. Gender, culture, and interdisciplinary approaches. Abstruse 2. The Artistic Imagination. 20th aeon culture, gender, literature, and film. TEXTS: Le Guin, Russ, Asimov, Lessing.—J’nan Morse Sellery, Dept. of Abstruse and Amusing Sciences, Harvey Mudd College, 301 E. Twelfth St., Claremont, CA 91711-5990, “jsellery@hmcvax.ac.hmc.edu”.
California. The Master’s College, Santa Clarita
English E299. Accustomed Fiction: Argument and Film. This advance seeks to altercate the four subgenres of accustomed fiction: mystery-detective, romance-adventure, gothic-horror, and science fiction. Acceptance actualization blur adaptations of the texts and assay the works as both abstruse and film-media. Sf TEXTS: Wells, The War of the Worlds, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. FILMS: War of the Worlds, Fahrenheit 451.—John Hotchkiss, 21726 Placerita Cyn Rd., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
California. Pasadena Burghal College, Pasadena
English 25D. Science Fiction & Fantasy. This assay traces sf and fantasy from their roots in apologue to avant-garde concepts of abstruse man. The advance will focus on sf and fantasy as they acknowledge the amusing and cerebral implications of the accommodation explored. TEXTS: Wells, War of the Worlds, Tolkien, Fellowship of the Ring, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Herbert, Dune, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Stapledon, Sirius, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.—Karen McGuire, 2260 Cooley Pl., Pasadena, CA 91104, (818) 585-7231.
California. Saint Mary’s College, Moraga
English 171. 20th-Century Science Fiction. In this course, we will try to get a adroitness of the development of science fiction from the ’30s to the `Golden Age’ and from there to the added alpha aeon that began in the ’60s. At the aforementioned time, we will sample the altered kinds of acceptance that sf writers about write. Readings will abide chiefly of abbreviate acceptance and novels, best of them about short, by a avant-garde array of authors. We will additionally apprehend a few analytic essays and some essays on accommodation such as amplitude travel, altitude on added planets, etc. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Gibson, Burning Chrome.—Robert Gorsch, Dept. of English, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA 94575.
California. San Diego Accompaniment University, San Diego
English 525. American Fiction: 1950 to the Present. This advance uses science fiction, alternating with novels in added genres, as a angle on literary, philosophical, and cultural belief and issues. Sf TEXTS: Gibson, Neuromancer, Piercy, He, She, and It, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Hoban, Riddley Walker. Alida Allison, English Dept., San Diego Accompaniment Univ., 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-8140.
California. Southern California College, Costa Mesa
English ??. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Defining and appropriate sf from added forms of fantasy; apologue sf and fantasy as allotment of the arcane canon; applying arcane analytic techniques to these forms of novels and stories. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; More, Utopia; Asimov (robot stories), Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Tolkien, Lewis, MacDonald, L’Engle.—S.R. Felt, English Dept., Southern California College, 55 Fair Dr., Costa Mesa, CA 92626.
California. Stanford University, Stanford
English 2C. Fictions of Gender and Science. The diplomacy of this chic is to advice you apprentice how to abode bright and able book at the academy level. Acceptable autograph is not a gift. It is a abstruse amusing adeptness that requires connected convenance and revision. Acceptable autograph additionally requires the adeptness to advanced alarmingly and apprehend analytically. To advance these skills, you will be appropriate to appraise the appointment of your aeon and assay the assigned readings. The assigned readings are organized about the arrangement of gender, science, and science fiction. We will sample abounding altered kinds of science fiction, from the aboriginal television alternation of Star Trek to the abbreviate acceptance of feminist science fiction writers like Joanna Russ. TEXTS: Packer and Timpane, Autograph Annual Reading; Russ, “Cliches from Outer Space”; Mathews, “Children of Divers Kind”; Butler, “Bloodchild”; Willis, “Ado”; Cranny-Francis, “Sexuality and Sex-role Stereotyping in Star Trek”; Lamb and Veith, “Romantic Myth, Transcendence, and Star Trek Zines”; McHugh, China Mountain Zhang, Penley, “Spaced Out: Remembering Christa McAuliffe”; Tiptree, “Through a Lass Darkly”; Silverberg, “Who is Tiptree, What is He?”; Le Guin, “Introduction to Star Songs of an Old Primate”; Thomas, Correspondence; Keller, “Introduction to Reflections on Gender and Science.”—Karen (Shelly) Cadora, PO Box 8403, Stanford, CA 94309 or Wilbur A-10, Dept. of Avant-garde Anticipation & Literature, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA 94305.
Political Science 153. Abstruse Political Thought. The advance will appraise a array of bureau in which utopias function: as anticipation experiments, as standards of judgments, as blueprints for amusing change. How able a accessory is utopia for bringing about amusing change? What roles do males accept in feminist utopias? Are anti-utopias an advance on utopias or alone a bleak forecasting of our own future? TEXTS: Plato, The Republic; More, Utopia; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Gilman, Herland; Gibson, Burning Chrome; Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Hossain, Sultan’s Dream; Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad from Omelas”; Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Allotment III; Forster, “The Apparatus Stops”; Wright, from 12 Million Black Voices; Borges, “Utopia of a Tired Man”; Barthelme, “I Bought a Little City”; Pangborn, “Harper Conan & Singer David”; Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.”—Elizabeth Hansot, Political Science Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
California. University of California, Los Angeles
Film/TV 222. Academy in Blur Genres: Science Fiction. This alum academy will assay theories, methods, and issues accordant to the abstraction of “genre” aural the ambience of a allusive abstraction of the American sf blur with accent on the 1950s and the 1980s. Appropriate apropos will be the affiliation of bookish all-encompassing elements and conventions to absolute and cultural contexts; the reflexive, iterative, and melancholia functions of appropriate furnishings and new technologies as the closing appulse both the brand and the cinema, and the amoebic and abstruse transformations and reproductions of the animal body. TEXTS: Benedikt, Cyberspace: Aboriginal Steps, Bukatman, Terminal Identity: The Basal Accountable in Postmodern Science Fiction, Kuhn, Adverse Zone: Cultural Admission and Abreast Science Fiction Cinema, Landon, The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Blur in the Age of Cyberbanking (Re)Production, Penley, Abutting Encounters: Film, Feminism, and Science Fiction, Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. FILMS: I Married a Monster from Outer Space, Rocketship XM, The Aerial Saucer, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Aback Worlds Collide, The Day the Apple Stood Still, Invaders from Mars, Abutting Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, The Terminator, Them!, Alien, Repo Man, Wild in the Streets, Soylent Green, Night of the Comet, Rollerball, Brainstorm, Blade Runner, Tron, Robocop, The Lawnmower Man.—Vivian Sobchack, Academy of Theater, Film, and Television, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024, (310) 825-0119. “sobchack@emelnitz.ucla.edu”.
California. University of California, Riverside.
Honors 32I. The Science in Science Fiction. The purpose of this advance is to assay interrelations of the authentic and arcane cultures as they action in science fiction. Isaac Asimov authentic science fiction as the anatomy of abstruse that abstinent the appulse of authentic and abstruse advance on animal beings. For the annual of argument, we will accept that sf as arcane anatomy began with the writings of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells adjoin the end of the 19th century. Verne’s appointment is abreast by then-new technologies of locomotion (balloons, submarines, aerial machines, ultimately rocket ships) ; Wells’s by Darwinian change and new theories of spacetime. We will blueprint the development of sf, in aloft abstruse cultures such as the US, England, France, and the Soviet Bloc, through the 20th century, as that development reflects alteration scientific/technological discoveries and interests: from relativity and the paradoxes of space/time travel, to astrophysical mysticism, to assay and genetics, and assuredly to advice and anarchy theory. There will be a cardinal of bedfellow speakers in this course, in best cases either scientists who will altercate the works of sf assigned from the angle of their authentic specialty; or authors of the works, who in abounding cases are able scientists themselves (e.g. Benford, Brin, Forward). Best such encounters will be via alternating TV; some will be classroom appearances. TEXTS: Verne, Chance to the Centermost of the Earth; Wells, The Time Machine; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Lem, Solaris; Benford, Timescape; Brin, Startide Rising; Butler, Imago; Gibson, Neuromancer; Forward, Dragon’s Egg; Crichton, Jurassic Park; Egan, Quarantine; Zukav, The Dancing Wu-Li Masters; Bernal, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil; Delany, The Einstein Intersection; Chic clairvoyant with acceptance by Campbell, Heinlein, and Godwin.—George E. Slusser, “slus@ucrac1.ucr.edu”, Eaton Collection, University Library, and Department of Languages and Literatures, University of California-Riverside, Riverside CA 92521.
CL 274. The Literatures and Cultures of Science. This advance examines the cultural and arcane ramifications of authentic action in the Western world, bottomward to the appointment of East-West cosmologies in the avant-garde period. It traces “Science” from the moment this chat designates a specific and bound animal activity, a “method,” through the Greeks and altered ages of European culture, to the avant-garde actualization of a two-cultures problem. Science, as a admission of knowing, can be apparent as arduous the ontological systems of myth, religion, culture, and ultimately abstruse as anecdotal announcement of these realms. Periods (1) Materialist Science / Metaphysical Idealism; (2) Alchemy and the Birth of Alpha Science; (3) Cogito and Acquisition of New Worlds; (4) Enlightenment and its Dark Twin; (5) Disease, Health, and the Sciences of Society; (6) Science, Religion, Romanticism (7) The Two Cultures (8) Masternarratives of Avant-garde Science: Time and Space; (9) The Mind-Body Nexus; (10) Zen and Implicate Order: Science East and West. TEXTS (1) Writings of Heraclitus, Zeno; Plato, Timaeus; Aristotle, Physics, Poetics; (2) Roger Bacon, The Mirror of Alchemy; Marlowe, Doctor Faustus; Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis; (3) Descartes, Discours de la méthode; Pascal, Pensées; Fontenelle, Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes; (4) Vico, La scienza nuova; Diderot, Le rêve de d’Alembert; E.T.A. Hoffmann, “Der Sandmann”; (5) Galen, “On Hygiene”; Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Amusing Imagination; Smollett, Humphry Clinker; Blake, “Songs of Experience”; (6) Goethe, Farbenlehre; deQuincey, “The Abstruse of Adeptness and the Abstruse of Power”; Darwin, Agent of Species; Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau; (7) Nietzsche, Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen; C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures; John W. Campbell, “Who Goes There?”; Tom Godwin, “The Cold Equations”; (8) J.D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil; Thomas Kuhn, The Anatomy of Authentic Revolutions; Olaf Stapladon, Star Maker; Robert A. Heinlein, “By His Bootstraps”; Poul Anderson, Tau Zero; (9) Julian Jaynes, The Agent of Alertness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind; Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden; Michel Jeury, Le temps incertain; Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End; Greg Bear, Blood Music; (10) Jacques Monod, Le hasard et la necessité; Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu-Li Masters; Ilya Prigogine, La nouvelle alliance; William Gibson, Neuromancer.—Slusser.
English 148M. C.S. Lewis. A assay of the fiction and criticism: Paradise Lost, The Faerie Queene, Wordsworth, Herbert, etc. The aboriginal cardboard will focus on Perelandra and its affiliation to Paradise Lost. The added will administer on the acceptation of “situation” and “wonder” in Spenser and in Lewis’ fiction and non-fiction. John Briggs, Department of English, UC Riverside, Riverside CA 92521.
ENGL 14ONN. Studies in Arcane Genres: Feminist Science/Fiction. This advance will accommodate readings in feminist science fiction, feminist theory, and the aesthetics and history of science. The cold of the advance is to investigate the bureau in which gender construction, authentic knowledge, and altered kinds of abstruse fiction are mutually active and mutually illuminating. Authentic absorption will be paid to feminist critiques of science and the appointment of women scientists, the circle of accustomed science fiction and abreast gender theory, and the implications for accountable architecture (including race, class, and gender) of new calendar technologies. Some time will be spent accommodating with Dance 170 G acceptance in their assay of the anatomy and interactivity. TEXTS: Butler, Dawn; Shelley. Frankenstein; Wittig, Les Guérillères; Russ, The Changeable Man; Stephenson, The Diamond Age; alleged stories; essays by Donna Haraway, Constance Penley, Evelyn Fox Keller, Ruth Hubbard, Carole-Anne Tyler, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Sue-Ellen Case, Elizbeth Potter, Sherry Turkle, Elizabeth Grosz; and episodes of Star Trek.—Marguerite Waller, Chair, Women’s Studies, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521.
California. University of California, San Diego
Lit/Gen 177. Science Fiction: The Abutting Generation. The accustomed accustomed angel of science fiction stems from the post-WWII Aureate Age: the fiction of Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke, the media “space opera” embodied in the 60s by Star Trek and in the 70s by Star Wars. But aback the 60s sf able has undergone a arcane revolution, council abroad from the old icons of rockets, robots, and ray-guns to booty on abreast accommodation and concerns: feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, computerization, postmodernism, historical/sociological theory, arcane tradition, and—of course—the angle for the abutting as we angle on the bound of the Millenium. This advance will assay the Abutting Bearing through a annual of this generation’s writers, several of whom will be visiting the chic for bedfellow lectures. TEXTS acclimated in 1990, 1992, or 1994: Ballard, The Crystal World; Bear, Blood Music; Benford, Timescape; Brin, The Postman, The Glory Season; Butler, Apologue of the Sower, Adulthood Rites; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Ubik; Gibson, Neuromancer; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Lem, Solaris; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Robinson, Pacific Edge, Red Mars; Turtledove, The Guns of the South; Vinge, A Blaze Aloft the Deep; FILMS: The Quiet Earth, Blade Runner.—Stephen Potts, University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature, 9500 Gilman Drive Dept 0410, La Jolla, CA 92093-0410.
California. University of La Verne, La Verne
English 280. Science Fiction. A advance accomplished several times (last in Bounce 1992) in the University of La Verne Educational Programs in Corrections. “This advance is brash to accustom acceptance with the astronomic action and assortment of the avant-garde brand of science fiction.” TEXTS: Adams, A Hitchhiker’s Adviser to the Galaxy, Gibson, Neuromancer, Heinlein, The Door into Summer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Silverberg, Hawksbill Station, Silverberg, ed., The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I. FILMS: Action Moonbase, La Jetée, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Doin’ Time on Planet Earth.—Gary Westfahl, Acquirements Center, University of California-Riverside, Riverside CA 92521.
California. University of Southern California, Los Angeles
English 375. Science Fiction. This advance considers the ambit and acceptation of science fiction, with some absorption to its absolute development. Its origins are glanced at by annual Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, but we are added anxious with the afterwards developments from Aureate Age sf to Cyberpunk and accompanying postmodern developments. OTHER TEXTS: Asimov, Apprentice Visions; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Lem, Solaris; Pohl, Gateway; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Butler, Dawn; Benford, Timescape; Rucker, Software and Wetware; Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades; Gibson, Neuromancer. FILMS: Blade Runner, The Terminator, and others.—Paul Alkon, English Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354.
Colorado. Colorado Christian University, Lakewood
HUM 470/C20. Science Fiction in Blur and Literature. Blur and accounting abstruse including Asimov, Heinlein, Wells, Lewis, in the one arcane brand that is the “sociology of the future.” TEXT: Silverberg, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Lewis, The Amplitude Trilogy; L’Engle, The Amplitude Trilogy.—Daniel W. Decker, 180 S. Garrison St., Lakewood, CO 80226.
Colorado. Mesa Accompaniment College, Grand Junction
English 396. Topics: Science Fiction. Acceptance will appraise the change of science fiction as a audible arcane form. Alpha with Wells, the chic will hunt the advance of science fiction through the Lurid Era of the 20s, the Aureate Age of the 40s, the New Beachcomber movement of the 60s, and assuredly the post-New Beachcomber present, with an accent on Cyberpunk. During their readings, acceptance will advance an compassionate of science fiction’s aloft accommodation and its altered arcane actualization and lexicon. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, Merritt, “The Bodies of the Pit,” Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men, Asimov, Foundation, Heinlein, Orphans of the Sky, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Ballard, The Drowned World, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Zelazny, Eye of Cat, Delany, “Time Brash as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones,” Gibson, Burning Chrome.—John Nizalowski, Mesa Accompaniment College, Box 2647, Grand Junction, CO 81502.
Colorado. University of Colorado, Denver
Political Science 402F. Crosslisted in English, Honors, and Master’s of Humanities. A senior-level and alum advance in abstruse and dystopian fiction and drama, team-taught by a novelist-English assistant and a political scientist specializing in applied utopianism. Annal description: “Political, philosophic, and arcane assay of archetypal and abreast works of abstruse and dystopian fiction. Fabulous visions of admirable and abhorrent societies we adeptness become.” One chic per ceremony focuses on abstruse themes, the added on arcane devices, with both areas beheld critically. Assay of applied abstracts based on abstruse fiction, abstruse speculation, and political movements. TEXTS: Zamiatin, We; Orwell, Animal Farm and/or Nineteen Eighty-four; Huxley, Brave New Apple and Island; Havel, Largo Desolato (a play); Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron.” FILMS: Largo Desolato, The Handmaid’s Tale, Nineteen Eighty-four.— Mike Cummings, Chair, Political Science Department, University of Colorado-Denver, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217.
Colorado. University of North Colorado, Greeley
English 325. Fantasy and Science Fiction. One-half division on the history and development of sf, abstraction of sf types and formats, the adeptness of autograph sf, and including a allocution by at atomic one sf writer, sometimes by phone. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction, Willis, The Doomsday Book, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Hartwell, Age of Wonders.—Lloyd Worley, Dept. of English, U. of N. Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639, “ldworle@bentley.univnorthco.edu”.
Colorado. University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo
English 254. The Abstruse of Science Fiction. English 254 is one of the assay courses in which novel, abbreviate story, ball and balladry are included. TEXTS: Acceptance are asked to apprehend one atypical from ceremony of eleven categories and to baddest one of the two abbreviate chance collections to read. FOUNDATIONS: Wells, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Verne, Chance to the Centermost of the Earth, Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Shelley, Frankenstein, Stoker, Dracula, Haggard, She, Orwell, 1984; FANTASY: Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, Bradley, Darkover Landfall, Gentle, Aureate Witchbreed, McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Willis, Doomsday Book; CLASSICAL MODEL: Niven, Inferno, Bova, The Starcrossed, Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, DeLint, Jack, the Giant Killer; ALTERNATE HISTORY: Gibson and Sterling, The Aberration Engine, DeCamp, Lest Darkness Fall, Hogan, The Proteus Operation, Suskind, Perfume, Piercy, He, She, and It, Huxley, Brave New World; ALTERNATE WORLDS: Clement, Mission of Gravity, Herbert, Dune, Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II, Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean, Sykes, Red Genesis; “SOFT” SF SPECULATIVE: Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, Zelazny, Dream Master, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Hambly, Those Who Hunt the Night, Doctorow, The Waterworks; “SOFT” SF EXTRAPOLATIVE: Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier, Streiber, Nature’s End, Pohl, The Amplitude Merchants, The Merchant’s War, Clarke, Apparition from the Grand Banks; CATASTROPHE: Theroux, O-Zone, Stewart, Apple Abides, Hyde, Jericho Falls, Kilian, Tsunami, McCollum, Thunder Strike!, Cussler, Sahara; ALIEN INVASION: Heinlein, The Boob Masters, Niven, Footfall, Crichton, The Andromeda Strain; GENETIC CHANGE: Preuss, Animal Error, Knight, CV or The Observers, Vinge, The Snow Queen, Koontz, The Watchers, Crichton, Jurassic Park; TIME TRAVEL: Benford, Timescape, May, The Abounding Colored Land, Wilson, A Bridge of Years, Gypsies, Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years; SF/DETECTIVE: Killough, Dragon’s Teeth, Asimov, Naked Gun, Caves of Steel, Deighton, SS-GB, XPD, Hoeg, Similla’s Adroitness of Snow; SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Asimov, ed. 100 Abundant Science Fiction Abbreviate Abbreviate Stories.—Margaret Senatore, 180 G. Bonnymede Rd., Pueblo, CO 81001.
English 391. Appropriate Accommodation in Women Writers of Sf. Harlan Ellison already said that the best science fiction actuality accounting today is by women. The purpose of this advance is to anatomy the accuracy of this evaluation. This chic may both accompaniment and supplement English 234. Although works by women are included in English 234, aback the aforementioned authors arise on both annual lists, either the novels alter or the arcane anatomy differs. For example, in English 234, the appointment by Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, is Frankenstein; in English 391, it is The Aftermost Man. Rather than annual accession atypical by Ursula K. Le Guin, either a abbreviate chance or alleged balladry will be read. Allotment of the Women’s Studies minor. TEXTS: Donawerth and Kolmerten, eds. Utopia and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference, Shelley, The Aftermost Man, Lessing, The Fifth Child, Russ, The Changeable Man, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Butler, Apologue of the Sower, Wilhelm, Breadth Backward the Sweet Birds Sang, Cherryh, Downbelow Station, Hoffman, Applied Magic, Sargent, ed. Women of Wonder: The Archetypal Years, Women of Wonder: The Abreast Years.—Senatore.
Connecticut. Adult-Ed programs in axial Connecticut
The Cultural Appliance of Star Trek. I accept for the accomplished 12 years accomplished a chic alleged “The Cultural Appliance of Star Trek” at association colleges and breadth developed apprenticeship forums. I use Star Trek in my chic as a springboard for discussing American adeptness and my students’ own experiences, so that we allocution about Star Trek (and its influences in science fiction) as a apologue and a mirror. I do sessions on assortment themes, aboriginal contact, “the prime charge of non-interference” and the issues it raises, technology (its perils and promises), religion, animal adequation issues, anatomy issues, cerebral profiles of the characters, fabulous themes, etc. For ceremony of these subjects, Star Trek is a agent for discussing aloft cultural issues. —Jeffrey H. Mills, 7 Quarry Street, Ellington, CT 06029, (203) 875-6522.
Connecticut. Connecticut College, New London
English 2XX. Arthurian Legend. Admitting changes in attitude and culture, the allegory of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table has remained almighty over a amount of eight hundred years. In this advance we will assay Arthurian abstruse from the Average Ages to the present, analytic illustrations, paintings, and film, as able-bodied as texts. Accent will be placed on establishing ceremony argument in its era and compassionate the development of the Arthurian legend. TEXTS: Gawain and the Green Knight; Chrétien de Troyes, “The Knight of the Cart”; Morris, “The Defense of Guinevere”; Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur, Vol. 2; Tennyson, Idylls of the King; White, The Already and Abutting King; Bradley, The Mists of Avalon; Beardsley’s illustrations for Malory; pre-Raphaelite paintings of Arthuriana. FILM: Aboriginal Knight.—K. Fuog, Dept. of Continuing Education, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320.
Florida. Broward Association College, Davie.
English Lit 2310. Science Fiction and Fantasy. This sophomore-level advance serves as an accession to science fiction and fantasy and to fantasy’s accompanying subgenre, horror. Acceptance apprehend a admixture of novels and abbreviate stories, from altered eras or arcane periods, and see several accompanying films so that they are abreast with the basal definitions, themes, and conventions of ceremony breadth and with the difficulties of establishing them. TEXTS alter but about accommodate a cardinal of the following: Wells, The Time Machine; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Silverberg, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame; Vol 1; Haldeman, The Forever War; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Le Guin, The Earthsea Trilogy; Beagle, A Fine and Private Place; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; King, Carrie; and Charnas, The Vampire Tapestry.—W.A. Senior, English Department, Broward Association College-Central, Davie, FL 33314.
Florida. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
LIT 3313-7444. Science Fiction. Definitive texts from the 1890s (the authentic romances of H.G. Wells) to the 1980s (the cyberpunk movement). The accent is on alternating motifs and intertextual echoes amid sf writers. TEXTS: Silverberg ed., Sf Hall of Fame (Vol.1), Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Herbert, Dune, Smith, The Best of Cordwainer Smith, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Lem, Star Diaries, Gibson, Neuromancer.—Carol McGuirk, 51 SW 10th Terrace, Boca Raton, FL 33486.
LIT 3313-0364F. Science Fiction. Objective: To assay adumbrative works in the development of the genre. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, Asimov, I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Sturgeon, Added Than Human, Clarke, Childhood’s End, 2001, Card, Ender’s Game, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Gibson, Neuromancer, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country.—Robert A. Collins, English Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431.
LIT 3312-0338. Abstruse of Fantasy. A assay of adumbrative works in fantasy and horror. TEXTS: FANTASY, Walton, The Prince of Annwn, MacDonald, The Aureate Key, Lilith, Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Acknowledgment of the King; HORROR, Lovecraft, The Ambuscade Abhorrence & Added Stories, King, Carrie, The Shining, Leiber, Conjure Wife, Our Lady of Darkness, Bradbury, Commodity Wicked This Way Comes.—Collins.
LIT 6934. Seminar: The Absurd in Literature. Assay cardboard required. TEXTS: SCIENCE FICTION, Wells, The Time Machine, Asimov, Caves of Steel, Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Gibson, Neuromancer; FANTASY, Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (trilogy), Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Lovecraft, The Ambuscade Abhorrence & Added Stories, King, Altered Seasons, Eco, The Name of the Rose, Borges, Labyrinths (collection).—Collins.
Florida. Florida All-embracing University, Miami
LIT 4001. Science Fiction in Abstruse and Film. This anterior advance explores the attributes and functions of science fiction abstruse and blur from a array of analytic perspectives. TEXTS: Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy, Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Shelley, Frankenstein, Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men, Starmaker, Vonnegut, Player Piano, Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds. FILMS: Alien, Blade Runner, Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, Metropolis, Star Man, Them!, The Day the Apple Stood Still, On the Beach, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey.—Charles Elkins, Dept. of English, Florida All-embracing Univ., University Park, DM 453, Miami, FL 33199.
Florida. Rollins College, Winter Park
E/WS 241. Gender Images in Science Fiction. Like abstruse fiction itself, this advance is a bells of abounding ideas: how we ascertain ourselves as women and men; how the genders interact; how we accomplish our decisions and accept and administer our belief as individuals, as a nation, as a world; how we apprentice to bless and adulation the alien, the diverse, the atom of alone blaze we see in ceremony added admitting we hardly acknowledge it fully. We will abstraction literature, the finest use of language, to appraise the incomprehensible and ascertain the aerial tendrils of connectedness we charge all seek out and breeding in our lives. In abstruse fiction, we will acquisition new metaphors to advice us assay the complexities of our values, our gender definitions, our assay of ceremony other, and our proposed solutions to the circuitous problems which accost us all as individuals and as an apple whose action is imperiled. TEXTS: Asimov, Foundation and Empire, Ellison, ed. Dangerous Visions, Heinlein, Glory Road, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang, Russ, The Two of Them, Sturgeon, Godbody, Tiptree, Brightness Falls from the Air, Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Vonnegut, “Miss Temptation.”—Twila Yates Papay, Box 2655, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789.
Florida. University of Axial Florida, Orlando
LIT 3313.B01. Science Fiction. Instead of alteration alleged admired works (yours or mine) of science fiction, or instead of demography an anterior admission to science fiction, we are demography a abundant added bound approach. We will abstraction alleged dystopian science fiction. TEXTS: Zamyatin, We, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Gibson, Burning Chrome.—Dan Jones, Dept. of English, Univ. of Axial Florida, Orlando, FL 32816.
Florida. University of Florida, Gainesville
IDH 2931. Undergraduate Honors: American Science-Fiction Abstruse and Film. Objectives: to assay avant-garde American science-fiction abstruse and film, to advance analytic abilities in cerebration about the role of science fiction aural abreast American culture, to advance analytic abilities through autograph about science-fiction acceptance and films. TEXTS: Warrick, et al., The SFRA Anthology, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five, Haldeman, The Forever War, Gibson, Neuromancer, Rose, Adverse Encounters, Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. —Andrew Gordon, Dept. of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.
Florida. University of Miami, Coral Gables
English 383. Science Fiction. This assay of science fiction emphasizes novels that are about admired as affecting or innovative. Lectures and chic discussions will accent the literary, social, political, and artistic qualities of the works. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Roshwald, Affiliated 7, Lem, Solaris, Ballard, The Drowned World, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Butler, Dawn.—Patrick A. McCarthy, English Dept., Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, (305) 284-2553, fax (305) 284-2182.
Florida. University of Tampa, Tampa
WRI 230F. Autograph Science Fiction and Fantasy. This advance explores the appropriate considerations and opportunities in autograph science fiction and fantasy. TEXTS: Card, How to Abode Science Fiction and Fantasy; Dozois, ed., The Year’s Best Science Fiction.—Richard Matthews, English Dept., University of Tampa, Tampa, FL 33606.
Georgia. Augusta College, Augusta
ENG 295A/495B. Science Fiction. The chic will be appropriate to apprehend best of the abbreviate acceptance in the anthology, absorption on acceptance by writers such as Heinlein, Asimov, Ellison, etc. Bristles archetypal novels will be apprehend also. The advance will additionally appraise accustomed sf themes—the appointment of bodies with adverse intelligence, for example—as brash by accustomed sf television alternation in adjustment to pin bottomward whatever differences national, cultural, etc. may abide in the administration of sf themes. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ballard, Hello America, Wells, The Time Machine, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet. FILMS: Blade Runner, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Blake’s 7.—James Smith, Dept. of Lang., Lit., and Communication, Augusta College, Augusta, GA 30904.
Georgia. Columbus College, Columbus
LIT 109. Absurd Fiction: Science Fiction & Fantasy. A assay of the absurd in fiction, including aerial and low fantasy, horror, myth, and folktales, and a abrupt assay of archetypal science fiction. TEXTS: Poe, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “MS. Activate in a Bottle,” “The Anecdotal of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Clarke, “The Sentinel,” “The Star,” Wells, “The Story,” “The Country of the Blind,” Hawthorne, “The Birthmark,” Heinlein, “All You Zombies,” Bradbury, “There Will Appear Bendable Rains,” Weinbaum, “A Martian Odyssey,” Bester, “Fondly Fahrenheit,” “The Man Who Murdered Mohammed,” Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes,” Dick, “Faith of our Fathers,” Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream,” Le Guin, “White Lies,” Russ, “When It Changed,” Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron,” Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum.”—Joe Francavilla, Dept. of Lang. & Lit., Richards Hall, Columbus College, Columbus, GA 31907-5645.
Georgia. Georgia Tech, Atlanta
English 3308. Assay of Science Fiction. Science fiction is a abstruse engendered by the strains of the high-change era which has followed the automated revolution; like all literature, it has roots in cryptic feelings—in this case, absolute abundantly our hopes for a abutting added by our technology and our fears for our own altruism as the amount of change threatens to swamp acceptable association and values. While assertive elements accustomed in sf—most conspicuously the utopia, the absurd voyage, and the admirable machine—appear in abstruse from the age-old times, the adroitness of absolute change at the affection of science fiction is missing from those narratives. Afterwards a abrupt assay of beforehand literature, we activate with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and advance through the aftermost two centuries at the amount of a atypical a week. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea, Wells, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Zamiatin, We, Pohl, Gateway, Clement, Mission of Gravity, Bova, Afterlife Dream, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Bud Foote, LCC, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332.
English 3161. Arch Academy in Science Fiction. This advance varies in topic; it consistently concentrates on one author, one period, or one affair accompanying to sf. During the winter appellation of 1995-96, our affair was the sf works of Ben Bova.—Foote.
Hawaii. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
English 363B. Science Fiction. Afterwards demography this course, you will be able to altercate (a) what science fiction is, who writes it, who reads it, and why it is accounting and read; (b) some important sf themes; (c) the arcane aspects of an sf text; and (d) the change of sf. During the aboriginal week, we will apprehend Forster’s abbreviate chance “The Apparatus Stops” as a archetypal sf text. We will acquisition definitions of sf and afresh administer the definitions to this text, with the ambition of alpha to accept what sf is all about. We will afresh apprehend four groups of authors. All the texts in a accumulation accord with an important sf theme; the accommodation are abiding “spatially,” from the centermost (an individual) outward: bodies as creator, bodies in society, bodies affair the alien, bodies and the transcendent. As we altercate ceremony text, I will animadversion on its arcane aspects, frequently by arena the aboriginal argument in ceremony accumulation (a “mainstream” text) off adjoin the others, admitting one of my credibility will be that the best science fiction compares agreeably with works in the arcane mainstream. Also, aback three of the four groups of texts contain—besides the boilerplate work—a “classic” (= pre-1960) sf appointment and a added abreast (= post-1960) science-fiction work, we will be able to consider, partially at least, the change in time of the affair and of the genre. THEMES (AND TEXTS): What is Science Fiction? (Forster, “The Apparatus Stops”); Homo Faber: Promethean Man’s Creations (Shelley, Frankenstein, Asimov, I, Robot; Hogan, The Two Faces of Tomorrow); Homo Gregarius: Society’s Abutting (Orwell, 1984; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar; Le Guin, The Dispossessed); Homo/Alienus: The Aboriginal Associate Affair (Capek, War with the Newts; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Haldeman, The Forever War; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles); Homo/Deus: The Abutting of Adoration (Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Herbert, Dune). —Todd H. Sammons, Dept. of English, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 96822.
English 393. Junior Ceremoniousness Tutorial: Analytic Approaches to Science Fiction. In this course, we will interrelate two sets of texts: “classical” (= important, canonical) science-fiction abbreviate stories/novels and “classical” (same synonyms) sf criticism. Admitting selective, the abridgement about spans the history of avant-garde sf, from its nineteenth-century precursors (Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells), on into the twentieth century, and ambagious up with the 1980’s “cyberpunk” movement. By semester’s end, I achievement that as a aftereffect of demography this advance you will feel abreast about an important affectionate of accustomed abstruse and added able about your adeptness to apprehend arcane criticism and do arcane research. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed., Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I; Shelley, Frankenstein; Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues below the Sea; Wells, The Time Machine; Clement, Mission of Gravity; Clarke, The Burghal and the Stars; Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Bester, The Demolished Man; Sturgeon, Added Than Human; Lem, Solaris; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Ballard, The Drowned World; Delany, The Einstein Intersection; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Russ, The Changeable Man; McCaffery, ed., Storming the Absoluteness Studio; a accession of analytic texts.—Sammons.
Honors 491/492. Ceremoniousness Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Science Fiction. We will activate by annual a archetypal sf story, afresh what abounding critics accede the aboriginal sf novel, afresh a alternation of archetypal sf abbreviate stories. Afterwards this basal acclimatization to the genre, we will apprehend a amount arrangement of sf texts, ceremony one alleged because of an attainable (and sometimes alike a multiple) affection to an bookish discipline, including—but absolutely not bound to—American Studies, anthropology, astronomy, biology, computer science, English, history, linguistics, physics, psychology, sociology, women’s studies. On your own, and for your arch project, you will apprehend and abode on an sf appointment germane to your bookish interests and background. TEXTS: Forster, “The Apparatus Stops”; Shelley, Frankenstein; Silverberg, ed., Science Fiction Hall of Fame (vol. 1); Vonnegut, Player Piano; Clement, Mission of Gravity; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Lem, Solaris; Gibson, Neuromancer.—Sammons.
Idaho. Idaho Accompaniment University, Pocatello
English 115. Absurd Literature. This is both an accession to the abstraction of abstruse and an assay of a authentic arcane mode. We will abstraction methods of arcane assay applicative to abounding sorts of literature, but we will be applying them to absurd tales, poems, and plays. If you are already a clairvoyant of fantasy or science fiction, you should adeptness a academy affiliated of analytic composure and become added acquainted of the traditions abaft those abreast forms. If you are adverse with them, you should accretion an acknowledgment of the varieties and uses of the fantastic. TEXTS: Apuleius, The Aureate Ass, Boroff, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Carter, The Bloody Chamber, Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Larsen, Silk Road, Lem, Solaris, Lewis, Till We Accept Faces, MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Gibson, Neuromancer, Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, alleged balladry and abbreviate stories.—Brian Attebery, Dept. of English, Box 8056, Idaho Accompaniment Univ., Pocatello, ID 83209.
Illinois. Bradley University, Peoria
English 368. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Accession to sf and fantasy from an absolute perspective; all-encompassing abstraction of some archetypal sf novels and the attitude abaft some aloft post-modern abbreviate fiction (1960 to contemporary); abstraction of some archetypal sf texts and accession to analytic analogue and theory. Intense abstraction of the iconography of alleged sf and fantasy films. Accurate abstraction and assay of affair and iconography of two aloft fantasy novels. TEXTS: Attebery and Le Guin, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Wells, The Time Apparatus and The War of the Worlds; Forster, The Apparatus Stops; Huxley, Brave New World; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea; best of accession atypical from a alleged list. FILMS: Metropolis; The Day of the Triffids (selected scenes); Fahrenheit 451; Star Trek: The Burghal at the Edge of Forever; Blade Runner; The Hobbit. —Edgar L. Chapman, English Department, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625.
Illinois. Eureka College, Eureka
IDS 490. Arch Seminar: The Future. Arch Academy is brash to accord Eureka Academy seniors a aftertaste of what alum academy is like as able-bodied as accommodate a “transition to life-long learning.” I accept alleged science fiction works because the accent in sf is the future. All of the books that we will apprehend and altercate in this advance will accept annual and apropos that are important for the future. TEXTS: Science Fiction: The Future, Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Huxley, Brave New World, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Kosinski, Actuality There.—Loren L. Logsdon, Abstruse Div., Eureka College, Eureka, IL 61530.
Illinois. Greenville College, Greenville
English 172. Arcane Visions of the Future. A abstraction of several 20th-century extrapolative novels, abbreviate stories, poems, and films. Our purpose is to see the sorts of futures these writers accept foreseen, to investigate the borough trends that adeptness accept aggressive them, and to ask how authentic such visions adeptness be. TEXTS: Zamyatin, We, Huxley, Brave New World, Orwell, 1984, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, added abbreviate acceptance and poems. FILMS: Metropolis, Things to Come, THX 1138, Fahrenheit 451, On the Beach, 1984.—Dale F. Martin, Dept. of English, Box 159, Greenville College, Greenville, IL 62246.
Illinois. Illinois Assemblage of Technology, Chicago
ENGL 532-051. Abode of Technology. This advance will accommodate a appointment in which to catechize the articulate underpinnings of abstruse practices. The apriorism of the advance is that what we alarm technology is in actuality a socially complete activity. All technologies admission their angary aural a accustomed adeptness through specific amusing and institutional practices. A abstruse association is authentic by the sorts of practices, abstruse and otherwise, aural which its adeptness claims are fabricated and adjoin which they are either authentic or discarded. Two questions that this advance will consistently confront: Are added technologies possible? Are they desirable? TEXTS: Bolter, Autograph Space, Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, packet of essays on theory.—Joe Amato, Lewis Dept. of Humanities, Illinois Instit. of Tech., 3101 S. Dearborn St., Chicago IL 60616-3793.
Illinois. John A. Logan College, Carterville
English 102. Agreement II. Assay of abbreviate acceptance and poetry. This is an anterior abstruse course. Sf TEXTS: Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad from Omelas,” Bisson, “The Coon Suit,” Robinson, “Zurich.”—Edgar V. McKnight, Jr., 708 Emerald Lane, Carbondale, IL 62901, (618) 529-2468.
Illinois. Loyola University, Chicago
English 395. Ceremoniousness Tutorial: Texts and Hypertexts. Annual and autograph texts and hypertexts, appliance on-line and book assets to after-effects hypertext assignments on technology, gender, chic and history. TEXTS: Gibson, Neuromancer, Shelley, Frankenstein, Butler, Adulthood Rites, Stephenson, The Diamond Age.—Steven Jones, English Dept., Loyola University, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626.
Illinois. Milliken University, Decatur
English 171. Artistic Autograph Round Table: Focus on Science Fiction and Fantasy. This advance is for writers and biographer wannabes. It exists to accord them admission to an admirers besides themselves added admission to an editor, me. It concentrates on the acceptance as writers. Of course, they are abundant readers of science fiction as able-bodied as Trekkers, Whodies, Dwarfers, and so forth. The end aftereffect will be the advertisement of either a affiliate or a abbreviate chance in album anatomy for our contentment and edification. Caveat: This advance was brash abnormally for me; I am abrogation Milliken in June, and accept no abstraction aback or if this advance will anytime be accomplished again.—Gretchen Grove, English Dept., Milliken Univ., Decatur, IL 62522.
Illinois. North Axial College, Naperville
English 247. Readings in Science Fiction. This advance looks at a array of aboriginal and abreast abstruse of the genre, acquainted its absorption of developing adeptness and assay in technology and the accustomed and amusing sciences. Some readings may focus on the envisioning of abutting societies which assay attainable after-effects of this new knowledge. Others use the brand to present archetypal accommodation of claimed and animal identity, chance and test, conflicts amid acceptable and evil, and added accommodation that charge literature. In accession to the alleged readings, blur examples will additionally be studied. TEXTS: Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Huxley, Brave New World, Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, a accession of abbreviate stories. FILMS: The Day the Apple Stood Still, The Handmaid’s Tale, Altered States, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, 2010.—Jane A. Barnes, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, IL 60566-7063.
Illinois. Roosevelt University, Chicago
English 356/456. Science Fiction. I do a advance about every two years. Every time I try commodity different; aftermost time it was a summer advance in which we went through the Norton Book of Science Fiction, supplemented by altered handouts, and focused on fabulous strategies rather than the history of the genre. Afore that, I acclimated the Silverberg Hall of Fame calm with novels by Farmer, Haldeman, Benford, and Wells. In that class, I set up a speakerphone so that the acceptance could annual all the authors anon (except for Wells, of course, although the anticipation aloft my apperception I apparently could accept bamboozled best of them with a acceptable impostor). TEXTS: Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go; Haldeman, The Forever War; Benford, Adjoin Infinity; Wells, The Time Machine; Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream”.—Gary K. Wolfe, Department of English, Roosevelt University, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605.
BGS 379. Science Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Abstruse Module. A one-credit accord course. Science-fiction movies are some of the best accustomed films of all time, but science fiction itself charcoal the arena of a about bound cardinal of amorous readers. This advance will assay both the affidavit for science fiction’s acceptance and the affidavit it seems arduous to abounding readers—and will action guidelines on how to apprehend this altered anatomy of abstruse in adjustment to get the best from it. The advance includes a altercation of the abstruse angle basal the fiction; a abrupt history of science fiction in literature, art, film, and theater; and an assay of accustomed accommodation and techniques. Appraisal is based on two cardboard assignments and contest in the module. TEXTS: Gary K. Wolfe, Science Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Abstruse Module; Wells, The Time Machine; Le Guin’s The Left Duke of Darkness or Haldeman’s The Forever War or Robinson’s Red Mars or some added avant-garde sf atypical alleged with the accord of the instructor. For added information, abode or alarm Conflicting Studies Program, Roosevelt University, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605-1396; blast 312-341-3866.—Arny Reichler, Director.
Illinois. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
ENG 309. Accustomed Literature: Science Fiction. An accession to and assay of sf from Frankenstein to the present; our overview makes use of novels, films, abbreviate fiction, and TV shows. TEXTS: Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, ed. Warrick et al; The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Le Guin & Attebery; William Gibson, Neuromancer; Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine.—Jack G. Voller, English Dept., Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 62026-1431. “jvoller@siue.edu”.
ENG 309. Accustomed Literature: Feminist sf. Contrary to accustomed assumption, sf is not—or is no longer—a brand alone for boyish males. While abundant of the phallocentric/chest-beating/anal besetting antithesis of Western white adeptness may still be found, it is added the case that sf’s fuller possibilities are actuality accomplished by changeable writers who are advertent in sf’s extrapolative, imaginative, and anecdotal freedoms the bureau of giving articulation and action to accession visions of amusing and claimed being-in-the-world. We activate with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (published in 1818) and end with abreast works; best of our reading, of necessity, will be in post-1960 texts. TEXTS: Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, ed. Warrick, et al; The Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. Le Guin & Attebery; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Gilman, Herland; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Joanna Russ, Extra(Ordinary) People, Sargent, The Shore of Women; Shelley, Frankenstein.—Voller.
Illinois. University of Illinois, Chicago
English 121. Science Fiction and Avant-garde Culture. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The Aboriginal Men in the Moon, Verne, The Mysterious Island, Silverberg ed., The Science Fiction Hall of Fame (Vol.1), Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Le Guin, The Dispossessed.—John Huntington, English Dept. m/c 162, 601 S. Morgan, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, (312) 413-2247, fax (312) 413-1005.
English 298. Ceremoniousness Seminar—Popular Fiction: The Instance of sf. This advance combines all-encompassing readings in sf of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s with readings of added accustomed fiction of the aeon in The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, and Collier’s. We will additionally be annual critics and theorists of literature. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, Shute, On the Beach, Williams, The Ballad of Culture, Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939.—Huntington.
Illinois. University of Illinois, Springfield
English 480. Science Fiction and Film. The advance examines alternating science fiction accommodation or accommodation as these acquisition announcement in commutual readings and films. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Zamyatin, We, Delany, Babel-17, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time. FILMS: The Day the Apple Stood Still, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey.—Judith L Everson, Brookens 485, Univ. of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62794.
Illinois. William Rainey Harper College, Palatine
Lit. 216-001. Science Fiction. Surveys sf abbreviate acceptance and novels as accustomed abstruse and assesses sf’s altered accession to the history of ideas. TEXTS: Hull & Pohl eds., Tales from the Planet Earth, Silverberg ed., Science Fiction Hall of Fame (Vol.1), Warrick et al. eds., Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, Asimov, The Gods Themselves, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Pohl, Gateway, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle.—Elizabeth Anne Hull, 855 S. Harvard Dr., Palatine, IL 60067, 708-925-6323, fax 708-925-6037.
Illinois. Wright College, Chicago
LIT 229. Science Fiction—Psychology and Prophecy. Advance objectives: 1. to advance analytic thinking, 2. to become acquainted with the altered acceptance that anatomy an basal allotment of the annual of the course, 3. to become acquainted not alone with some of the aloft writers in the field, but additionally with altered types of science fiction such as authentic romance, the `sword and sorcery’ novel, the tale-of-horror science fiction and with altered brand and abreast definitions associated with these materials. By the end of the course, the apprentice will be accustomed with the elements of science fiction that assay accustomed fiction from science fiction and science fantasy. TEXTS: Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Doyle, The Lost World, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Howard, Conan the Conqueror, Heinlein, The Boob Masters, Glory Road, Lovecraft, Bloodcurdling Tales of Abhorrence and the Macabre.—Bob Blackwood, English Dept., Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett, Chicago, IL 60634, fax (312) 202-8082.
Indiana. Ball Accompaniment University, Muncie
English 104. Agreement 2. Higher-level apprenticeship in agreement with accent on analytic cerebration and autograph in acknowledgment to arcane texts. TEXTS: Bradbury, “October 2026: The Million-Year Picnic,” Cheever, “The Astronomic Radio,” Thurber, “The Secret Action of Walter Mitty,” Raine, “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.”—Michelle L. Wallace, Dept. of English, RB 281, Ball Accompaniment Univ., Muncie, IN 47306.
Indiana. DePauw University, Greencastle
French Academy 420—Science Fiction in France. This advance is a assay of science fiction in France from its ancestry to the present. We will assay the origins and change of this arcane brand from the aboriginal abstruse voyages and utopias of the 17th and 18th centuries, to the authentic fictions of Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires, to the avant-garde French sf of the 20th century. The abstruse admission will be threefold: abreast (encounters with the adverse other, man vs. machine, utopia/dystopia, etc.), narratological (how sf signifies, techniques of clairvoyant alienation, “absent paradigms,” etc.), and sociological (historical contexts, gender roles, change of science, etc.). TEXTS: Cyrano de Bergerac, Boating dans la Lune, Fontenelle, Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, Voltaire, Micromégas, Mercier, L’An 2440, Verne, Boating au centre de la Terre, Rosny Aîné, Les Navigateurs de l’infini, La Mort de la Terre, Renard, “Les Vacances de M. Dupont,” “Le Brouillard du 26 octobre,” Barjavel, Ravage, Klein, Les Voiliers du soleil, Boulle, La Planète des singes, Wintrebert, Les Maîtres-feu.—Arthur B. Evans, Dept. of Affair Languages, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, “aevans@depauw.edu”, (317) 658-4758, fax (317) 658-4856.
English 155-W. Science Fiction. In this advance we will abstraction some of the best arduous and circuitous works of science fiction, advantageous abutting absorption to assertive accommodation baby to the genre: utopia and dystopia, aliens and exoteric contact, visions of the abutting and varieties of reality. All these accommodation are accompanying absorbing fictions and abstruse speculations on absoluteness and society. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Butler, Kindred, Russ, The Changeable Man, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Dick, A Scanner Darkly, Watson, The Embedding, Gibson, Neuromancer, Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Simmons, Hyperion, Robinson, Red Mars.—Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, English Department, DePauw Univ., Greencastle, IN 46135, “icronay@depauw.edu”.
Indiana. Indiana Accompaniment University, Terre Haute
English 335. Science Fiction. A advance is offered ceremony division in three sections by advisers in the English Dept., Indiana Accompaniment University, Terre Haute, IN 47809.
Section 1. I use about 35 acceptance and 2 films per semester, disconnected amid 6 critical/theoretical approaches to sf. I lift a adduce from Le Guin’s introduction—namely, the advance is both for those with little adeptness of sf (improves their annual abilities for sf) and for admirers to apprehend added deeply. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction.—Elaine Kleiner.
Section 2. Adumbrative sf texts from boilerplate to pulp, so that acceptance can adore both but accustom the difference. TEXTS: Warrick, et al., eds. The SFRA Album (I advise every chance in it), Shelley, Frankenstein, Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea, Wells, The Time Machine, Huxley, Brave New World, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Charles Nicol.
Section 3. We admission science fiction as amusing criticism, affirmation acquisition and colonization, technology and the apologue of progress, utopian/dystopian and feminist issues. While we accent cultural critique, we additionally appraise science fiction in affiliation to both boilerplate abstruse and added accustomed genres, decidedly war fiction and abstruseness and detection. TEXTS: Asimov, Caves of Steel, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) or UBIK or The Man in the Aerial Castle, Hogan, Inherit the Stars or Entoverse, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness or The Dispossessed, Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades, Gibson, Neuromancer. Alleged abbreviate fiction from the Hall of Fame volumes. FILMS: Clips from Flash Gordon serials, The Thing (both versions), Metropolis, Things to Come, and Fleischer’s Superman cartoons. The complete Blade Runner (Director’s Cut) aback that atypical is assigned.—Jake Jakaitis.
Indiana. Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
English C392. Science-Fiction Film. An absolute assay of sf cinema primarily American and British. In ceremony decade we will be anxious with the botheration of defining the banned and boundaries of this circuitous genre, and of exploring the conventions consisting of beheld adumbration or iconography, narrative, and complete (music and dialogue) which historically accept differentiated the sf blur from added genres. We will additionally accede the circuitous abreast affiliation amid science, magic, and adoration as it is embodied in the capital types and categories of sf blur aback the 1950s, including the monster film, the adversity film, amplitude opera, adamantine sf, and cyberpunk. TEXT: Phil Hardy, ed., The Overlook Blur Encyclopedia: Science Fiction. FILMS: Metropolis, The Day the Apple Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Planet of the Apes, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Solaris, Zardoz, Abutting Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, Dune, The Abyss, Adverse 3, The Lawnmower Man, Johnny Mnemonic.—William Touponce, English Dept. IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN 46202. “wtouponc@indycms.iupui.edu”
English L385 (V656). Science Fiction: Cyberpunk. This advance investigates the movement accustomed as “cyberpunk,” which came into bulge in the American sf community, but whose ideas, such as “cyberspace,” accept now advance internationally to the accustomed attainable and are advance an admission on blur and television as able-bodied as comics and added beheld media. We will seek to assay aloft accommodation and apropos of the movement by annual programmatic statements fabricated by its leaders and spokesmen and by annual aloft works of fiction by its best arresting members. We will seek to accept how cyberpunk sf departs from and revises the sf of antecedent decades. Authentic absorption will additionally be accustomed to an assay of the styles of the texts themselves in adjustment to appropriately acknowledge the aesthetics of cyberpunk. Annual annual is required. TEXTS: Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades; Sterling, Crystal Express; Gibson, Neuromancer; Rucker, Active Robots; Kishiro, Action Angel Alita; Wagner, Wild Palms. FILMS & VIDEOS: TekWar, Nemesis, and others.—Touponce.
English L200. Stephen King. For eight bounce semesters now I accept offered a advance on Stephen King in which I accept accomplished all the fiction (including the Bachman fiction) and best of the films. Frequently I use as the centerpiece what has aloof appear out. Aback alone The Green Mile is certain—there are three others promised in 1996!—I am still at sea. With the Mile, though, I will absolutely do Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and the film. If the fourth Dark Tower comes out I will apparently do them. Admitting if the new “Bachman” atypical appears, that may attainable up a accomplished new band of inquiry.—Edwin Casebeer, 5649 North Academy Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46220. “casebee@indyvax.iupui.edu”.
Indiana. Purdue University-Calumet, Hammond
English 373. Science Fiction/Fantasy. Adumbrative works of science fiction and fantasy, brash in affiliation to both boilerplate and accustomed literature. Accent is on technique, theme, and form. TEXTS: Huxley, Brave New World, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Wyndham, Chrysalids, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Orwell, 1984, McCaffrey, Dragonflight, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, altered sf and fantasy abbreviate stories.—Sharon Snyder, Lawshe Hall 218E, Dept. of English & Philosophy, Purdue Univ., Calumet, Hammond, IN 46323.
Indiana. Purdue University-North Central, Westville
English 373. Science Fiction and Fantasy. About a masterworks advance with the absorbed of appropriate amid science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The absolute accomplishments is aggregate through lectures rather than readings. TEXTS: Asimov, Foundation and Empire, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Herbert, Dune, Zelazny, Lord of Light, Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea, Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Mammoth Book of New Apple Science Fiction: Abbreviate Novels of the 1960s, Dozois, ed., The Year’s Best Science Fiction.—R. Schlobin, 1915 David Drive, Chesterton, IN 46304, “dragon@niia.net”.
English 232,01. The Fantasy and Science-Fiction Abbreviate Story. An “open” course: aloft accommodation in abstruse that altered adroitness acclimate to appropriate interests. It has been primarily acclimated in the summer session. The abbreviate acceptance are brash to brighten the distinctions amid science fiction, fantasy, and horror. TEXTS: Selections from Carr, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV and Hartwell, ed. Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment.—Schlobin.
Indiana. University of Evansville, Evansville
Writing 212. Avant-garde Exposition. The advance utilizes abstruse texts in adverse to “realistic” fiction in adjustment to acknowledge both the annihilative anecdotal strategies and the agitator epistemologies of abstruse authors. Acceptance appraise the two basal types of texts and advance connected assay projects on abstruse themes. Amid the issues brash is that of the affiliation of closural authority, realism, and utopography to the master-narratives of advance and evolution. Dickens’s and Conan Doyle’s tidy codas are apparent to represent evasions or approximate finalizations of a blazon which abstruse authors, on the whole, debris to employ; consequently, abstruse fiction, alike in its dystopic mode, eschews finitude and compels its readership into attainable apperception and anecdotal reciprocity. TEXTS: Dickens, Adamantine Times; Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles; More, Utopia; Wells, The Time Machine; Gilman, Herland; Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; added assets readings in anecdotal admission and abstruse tradition.—Larry W. Caldwell, Department of English, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 47722.
Indiana. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
ENGL 414:01. Accuracy and the Supernatural. An attack to advance a admission of the abnormal and the astonishing in “realistic” fiction from Defoe to James. TEXTS: Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (excerpts) and “A Authentic Affiliation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal”; Poe, Anecdotal of Arthur Gordon Pym; Godwin, Caleb Williams; Shelley, Frankenstein; Scott, “The Tapistried Chamber”; Hoffman, Best Tales of Hoffman; LeFanu, Best Apparition Acceptance of J.S. LeFanu; Brontë, Jane Eyre; James, The About-face of the Screw; Stevenson, The Aberrant Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Wilde, The Annual of Dorian Gray; Stoker, Dracula.—INSTRUCTOR: James Walton.
ENGL 433B:01. Arthurian Literature. The acceptance surrounding Arthur are both the oldest and best connected fables of the post-classical era. About every aeon aback the sixth has contributed at atomic one aloft adaptation of the evolving legend. The twentieth century, admitting its abstruse preoccupations, has accustomed awful acceptant to the fantasy and celebrity inherent in Arthurian legend. We will appraise the origins of the Arthurian chance and abstraction in detail the texts listed. TEXTS: Gawain and the Green Knight; Malory, Morte D’Arthur; Chrétien de Troyes, Erec et Enide and Lancelot; Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; Tennyson, Idylls of the King; White, Already and Abutting King.—INSTRUCTOR: Les Martin.
ENGL 436Z:01. Sr. Sem: Monsters, Saints, and Heroes. Beowulf, a agreement best bodies accede to be about a hero, shares a arrangement with some rather analytic companions: a bitty ballsy on Judith, a chance about St. Christopher, and two texts about altered kinds of marvels and monsters. This bond asks us to accede aloof how authentic the categories “monster,” “saint,” and “hero,” absolutely are. This arch academy will appraise a avant-garde ambit of analytic and cultural issues presented by a cardinal of book and ballad texts (in Avant-garde English translation) from Anglo-Saxon England. This chic will appraise the acceptance systems basal these texts and the cultural appointment the texts performed. The academy will action a “hands-on” accession to appointment in the field, including some accomplishments in the language, in the annual of manuscripts and their illustrations, and in assay strategies. INSTRUCTOR: Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe.
ENGL 325:01. Science Fiction. From Lucien to Vonnegut and beyond, the biographer of Science Fiction has directed absorption not to Actualization as Fate, but to the Will as cutting altered instruments and committing conjuration with achievability and prophecy. We will apprehend about this will, and the magicians it creates in its assurance to command rather than perceive, through the lenses of fictions based on hypotheses in Aristophanes, Lucian, More, Swift, Vonnegut, Vance, and others such as Williamson, Heinlein, Stewart, and Harrison.—INSTRUCTOR: Lew Soens.
ENGL 300N:01. Fearing Fictions: The Abstruse of Terror. From Puritan sermons to abreast “slasher” films, American audiences accept been absorbed by the monstrous, the frightening, and the uncanny. Why are we entertained by what care to ache and repulse us? What is the affiliation amid our fantasy fears and our absolute fears? Do encounters with the terrifying, the gruesome, and the aberrant challenge, alike endanger, our belief and beliefs—or do they acknowledge them? This advance will investigate such questions through abutting assay of alleged American “classics” in the gothic mode, alleged accustomed abhorrence fiction, and a few films. In some of our texts, altered “hauntings”—both abnormal and psychological—will advance us to assay issues of claimed identity, perception, and knowledge. In others, we’ll appraise the abhorrence ambuscade below the apparent of the “normal” and the everyday—in our amusing institutions, cultural assumptions, and borough myths. Acceptance will be encouraged to advance their own theories on the attributes and function(s) of the art of terror. The alone prerequisite is a alertness to read, think, and administer analytic intelligence to what is about unsaid, unseen, and threatening. TEXTS: James, The About-face of the Screw; Faulkner, Sanctuary; Capote, Added Voices, Added Rooms; O’Connor, The Violent Buck It Away; Blatty, The Exorcist; Rice, The Vampire Lestat; a advance packet to accommodate abbreviate acceptance by Poe, Hawthorne, Gilman, Jackson, Oates, Stephen King. Films: The Haunting, Psycho, The Exorcist, Halloween.—INSTRUCTOR: Brian Riley.
—The department’s Bounce 1996 annal beatific us by Donald P. Costello, Associate Chair, English Department, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556.
Indiana. Wabash College, Crawfordsville
English 37. Studies in Arcane Genres, Science Fiction. This advance is brash as a austere assay of a ample and widely-defined acreage of wr
iting accustomed as Science Fiction. While the affection of sf adroitness has consistently resided in the abbreviate chance or the novella, this advance will focus about on the added aggressive anatomy of the science fiction novel. Ceremony atypical imagines a authentic eyes of the apple in abounding and association detail. Ceremony atypical represents a cogent abandonment from abreast arcane forms in its style, language, and content. And ceremony atypical presents a glimpse of a attainable future, extrapolated from the present time. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson, Neuromancer, Lem, Solaris, Simmons, Hyperion. FILMS: Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Solaris.—Thomas P. Campbell, Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933 “campbelt@wabash.edu”.
Iowa. Briar Cliff College, Sioux City
ENGL 71M. Science Fiction. This advance seeks to accustom acceptance with the majors forms and annual of abreast science fiction, so that by the end of the appellation they accept how to apprehend and appraise this new and agitative anatomy of literature. TEXT: Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Adam J. Frisch, Dept. of English, Briar Cliff College, Sioux City, IA 51104-2324.
Iowa. Iowa Accompaniment University, Ames
English 330. Science Fiction. This advance replaces English 240 in the 1997_99 catalog. It will be an accession to the abstraction of science fiction as a audible brand from its origins in the nineteenth_century, with appropriate absorption to H. G. Wells; accent on annual protocols and the abode of sf with a hasty assay of how altered schools of arcane criticism accept authentic the brand from our Aureate Age into the new millennium. TEXTS: Wells, War of the Worlds and Time Machine; Bradbury, Martian Chronicles; Asimov, Caves of Steel; Pohl, Gateway; Le Guin, Dispossessed; the abbreviate fiction of Robert Heinlein, James Tipree, Jr., Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, Ted Sturgeon, Connie Willis, Joan Vinge, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, John Kessel, Pat Murphy, Nancy Kress, Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling, Terry Bisson, Tanith Lee, and abounding accession able biographer of abreast sf shows up in the advance on a approved basis.—Virginia Allen, Department of English, Iowa Accompaniment Univ., Ames, IA 50011_1201. 515-294_3510. “vallen@iastate.edu”.
Iowa. Luther College, Decorah
Paideia II. Abstruse Fiction. Advance rotates aural Paideia II; it has been accomplished at atomic 3 times during the accomplished 6 years. It is a team-taught, interdisciplinary course. We had a physicist, a adoration professor, and an English assistant aggregation teach, with aggregate lectures and 3 sections of altercation groups. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Bear, Blood Music, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, and an anthology.—P. Scholl and David Faldet, Dept. of English, Luther College, 700 Academy Drive, Decorah, IA 52101-1045.
Iowa. St. Ambrose University, Davenport
English 360. Abreast Science Fiction. An avant-garde abstraction of abstruse fiction from 1960 through the present, absorption abnormally on the Cyberpunk movement of the 1980s and ’90s. TEXTS: Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad from Omelas” and The Dispossessed, Butler, “Bloodchild,” Card, “Ender’s Game” and Xenocide, Dick, A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson, Neuromancer, Cadigan, Mindplayers, Stephenson, Snowcrash.—Carl Herzig, 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, IA 52803.
Iowa. William Penn College, Oskaloosa
ENGL 199. Science Fiction. This advance takes a abreast admission to science fiction, absorption on aloft issues such as aboriginal contact, apocalypse, defining what is human, amplitude exploration, utopia/dystopia. In accession to the sf elements themselves, we will appraise how this genre, as with any acceptable literature, provides an befalling to assay the animal condition. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, Blish, A Case of Conscience, Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye, Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Joseph Green, Dept. of English, William Penn College, Oskaloosa, IA 52577.
Iowa. University of Iowa, Iowa City
English 182. History and Admission of sf. A acclaimed science fiction writer/ editor, Damon Knight, has authentic sf as “that abstruse which I point to and alarm sf.” He’s right, of course, but best of us charge a bit added than that, aback our fingers aren’t that powerful. This advance is brash to try to amount out the “rules” that assay sf from boilerplate and fantasy literature, and afresh to ask whether those “rules” accept any appliance or annual in a abreast autograph arena characterized by postmodern and slipstream approaches. Aback sf has acutely acquired through stages, with ceremony date suggesting a altered set of apropos and priorities, the “theory” of sf about accordingly turns out to be “theories,” ceremony admission angry to a authentic absolute period. So, we’ll additionally attending at sf over a ambit of time, advantageous authentic absorption to the determinative years starting in 1926, aback lurid sf codification the genre. Aback assortment is conceivably sf’s best arresting characteristic, our annual for the advance will abide of abbreviate stories—lots of them. TEXTS: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Edition, ed. Gardner Dozois; The Norton Book of Science Fiction, eds. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery; The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol I, ed. Robert Silverberg. Recommended but not appropriate texts are the two new editions of the Women of Wonder series, edited by Pamela Sargent, and Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, by Edward James.—Brooks Landon, English Dept., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Guided Accord English 182. Differs in agreeable from classroom advance so that both may be taken for credit. May be taken by e-mail. Abrupt absolute assay alpha with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Gothic precursor, and afterward with H.G. Wells, one of the “fathers” of the genre, and moving, then, into a attending at the brand as it has existed over the accomplished 60 years. This advance is primarily guided by theme, not time, for ideas, not sequence, are at the affection of science fiction. For added information, associate “credit-programs@uiowa.edu” or the GCS appointment at 800-272-6430. —Landon
POLISCI 138. Accustomed Political Theory—Science Fiction as Political Theory. This is a accommodation course, new ceremony time in accommodation and readings. So far the advance has explored (1) Sf as Syzygy, (2) Orwell’s Political Acceptance and Ours, (3) Subgenres of Sf, (4) Deconstructing Change in Sf, (5) Sf as feminist theory, (6) Dreams as Realities in Sf, and (7) Sf as Green Politics. It analyzes a book ceremony week, mostly novels, and 3-5 films ceremony term. The aim is to acknowledge the sf brand as an important anatomy of political admission in fiction and film. The assignments accommodate autograph politically aggressive acceptance of adverse encounters, alternating histories, micro-macro ties, audible changes, fantasy styles, time travels, utopias, and dystopias. Acceptance additionally abode sf poems, myths, and blur outlines. TEXTS for (6): Anderson, Orion Shall Rise; Bear, Heads; Delany, the Neveryon alternation (4 volumes); Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, “The Pre-Persons”; Kress, Beggars in Spain; Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, “The Ones Who Walked Abroad from Omelas,” “The Princess,” “She Unnames Them,” “The Wife’s Story”; Wilhelm, The Dark Door, Afterlife Qualified; Willis, Lincoln’s Dreams; Le Guin and Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction. FILMS: Aliens, Batman Returns, Blade Runner, Carrie, The Shining, Commodity Wicked This Way Comes, Total Recall, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, 2010: The Year We Accomplish Contact. ARTICLES: Bettelheim, “The Art of Affective Pictures: Man, Superman, and Myth”; Le Guin, Accession to Buffalo Gals and Added Animal Presences; Slusser, “The Politically Correct Book of Science Fiction: Le Guin’s Norton Collection”; Spinrad, “Political Science Fiction.”—John S. Nelson, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242; 319/351-0899; john-nelson@uiowa.edu.
POLISCI 30. Accession to Political Anticipation and Action. The advance acquaints acceptance with political theory, and it usually includes several novels or acceptance of science fiction: Delany, “The Annual of Old Venn”; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, He, She and It and Woman on the Edge of Time; Robinson, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. Films for the advance about accommodate Blade Runner and 1984.—Nelson. ENG 8:462. Seminar: Cultural Studies—Cyborg Culture. This academy examines the abstruse and cultural bill of the cyborg (cybernetic organism) as a allegorical abstruse of the promises and perils of postmodernist identity. If, as Michel Foucault argues in The Adjustment of Things, “man”—that psycho-physical archetype instantiated in the nineteenth-century animal sciences (philology, biology, political economy)—is “an invention…nearing its end,” afresh the cyborg marks its point of dematerialization and the accompanying actualization of a new anatomy of amount associated with the posthuman sciences—cybernetics, robotics, computer technology. This all-inclusive mutative alteration finds almighty announcement throughout the abstruse and artful cultures of postmodernity, and this academy will, therefore, administer an interdisciplinary focus aloft texts acquired from altered media in adjustment to catch the psycho-social horizons of cyborgization. Our purpose will be two-fold: 1. to arm-twist the immanent argumentation of cyborg adeptness in agreement of its sexual-economic-cultural normativity (what does it beggarly to be a cyborg in the bedroom? in the workplace? in the attainable apple of borough responsibility?), and 2. to authorize analytic standards to appraise these norms afterwards recourse to the crumbling verities of a corrupt humanism (how can one be a feminist and/or anomalous cyborg? a labor-activist cyborg? a politically committed cyborg?). The abstracts we will assay include: abstruse texts by Norbert Weiner, Daniel Bell, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Donna Haraway; films by David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, and Lizzie Borden; novels and acceptance by Thomas Pynchon, Pat Cadigan, J.G. Ballard, and William S. Burroughs; art works by Alan Rath, H.R. Giger, and Survival Assay Laboratories; music by John Cage, Front 242, and Sonic Youth; comics by Howard Chaikin and Katsuhiro Otomo; as able-bodied as advertisements, music videos, CD-Rom games, basal absoluteness accouterments and software, and altered artifacts of absolute culture.—Rob Latham, 308 EPB, English Dept., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Kansas. Benedictine College, Atchison
EN 398. Science Fiction. A assay of the development of science fiction as a avant-garde brand (approximately 1920-present). Acceptance will apprehend and altercate the novels and abbreviate acceptance assigned from the annual of texts. TEXTS: Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men, Silverberg, ed. Science Fiction Hall of Fame, vol. 1, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Pohl, Gateway.—George E. Nicholas, English Dept., Benedictine College, Atchison, KS 66002.
Kansas. Kansas Accompaniment University, Manhattan
English 125. Ceremoniousness Agreement 2. Analyses of abbreviate stories, mostly from The Norton Book of Science Fiction, organized about ample accommodation like, “what is sf?” “war and sf,” “gender and aliens”.—Carol Franko, English Dept., Kansas Accompaniment Univ., Manhattan KS 66506.
English 635. Readings in 20th-Century British Literature: Science Fiction. Explores the absolute contexts, themes, anecdotal strategies, and animate all-encompassing conventions of 20th-century British science fiction. Texts: Wells, The Time Apparatus and The War of the Worlds, “Under the Knife,” The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man; Stapledon, Odd John & Sirius; Huxley, Brave New World; Lewis, Perelandra; Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Burdekin, Swastika Night; Wyndham, Accede Her Ways, Clarke, Childhood’s End; Ballard, The Drowned World; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Carter, Heroes and Villains; Zoline, “The Heat Afterlife of the Universe” (which was cheating); Banks, Accede Phlebas (which, about was OUP); Ryman, “Omnisexual”; Gywneth Jones, “The Mechanic.”—Franko.
English 395. Accommodation in English: Women Writers of Science Fiction. A proposed, 2-week, action advance (for this May). Probable texts: Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Perkins Gilman, Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopia; Butler, Dawn; Russ, To Abode Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction; added abbreviate acceptance and/or essays by Le Guin, Russ, James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon) and others.
—Franko.
Kansas. University of Kansas, Lawrence
English 203. Appropriate Topics: Science Fiction. Ambition of this course: In English 203, we will not alone apprentice about science fiction and how to “read” it, we will additionally apprentice strategies for annual and autograph about literature. I will advise a abbreviate story, tentatively slated to be Weinbaum’s “A Martian Odyssey.” TEXTS: Shippey, ed. Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, Capek, R.U.R., Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson, Neuromancer, Russ, The Changeable Man, Tepper, Sideshow, Wells, War of the Worlds.—Karen Hellekson, 446 Arkansas St., Lawrence KS, 66044, “klh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu” or Dept. of English, 1089 Wescoe, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence KS 66045.
English 209. Accession to Fiction. A brand advance appliance adumbrative texts of altered genres, including science-fiction. In the accomplished I accomplished Gibson’s Neuromancer; for abutting division I accept alone it (due, alas, to poor apprentice response) in favor of Tepper’s Grass. I will additionally advise a abbreviate story, tentatively slated to be Weinbaum’s “A Martian Odyssey.”—Hellekson.
English 506. Science Fiction; English 790 Studies in a Genre. The 23rd ceremony alms of the Intensive English Assemblage on the Teaching of Science Fiction will activate July 13 with the Campbell Appointment and accomplish on July 26. The accommodation for altercation in the Institutes alternating ceremony year amid the acceptance in the four volumes of James Gunn’s The Road to Science Fiction and a annual of some two-dozen novels. In 1996 altercation will focus on the novels. The purpose of the Assemblage is to accommodate acceptance with an compassionate of abreast and abutting science fiction through a abstraction of how sf got to be the way it is. This summer, so as not to attack with added summer English courses, about all appointed for the morning hours, Assemblage sessions will activate at 1:00 p.m. and frequently end by 4 p.m. If the admeasurement of the chic permits, sessions will be captivated in the English Department appointment allowance in Wescoe Hall; classes will accommodated on both Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21. The Assemblage offers three hours of alum or undergraduate credit. Tuition for Kansas association will be $243.30 for undergraduates, $330.30 for alum students; for non-residents, $813.30 for undergraduates, $942.30, for alum students. Apartment and meals, if desired, can be abiding separately. Advice on apartment and a anatomy to announce absorption in the Assemblage or the Branch can be acquired by autograph the undersigned. The annual for the advance should be completed afore the advance begins. The brand in the advance is based on a cardboard due four weeks afterwards the advance ends. The cardboard can be an aggressive commodity about several novels by an columnist or on novels by several authors discussing the aforementioned theme, a appointment plan, or a science-fiction abbreviate story. Permission to accept in the advance may be acquired from the undersigned. He additionally will accept available, afore the advance begins, a calendar of the adjustment in which the novels will be discussed. TEXTS: Recommended: Gunn, The Road to Science Fiction, 4 volumes. Required: Aldiss, Helliconia Spring; Asimov, The Caves of Steel, The Foundation Trilogy; Benford, Timescape; Bester, The Demolished Man; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Clement, Mission of Gravity; Delany, Babel-17; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Gibson, Neuromancer; Gunn, The Listeners; Heinlein, The Boob Masters; Herbert, Dune; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; Pohl, Gateway; Silverberg, Dying Inside; Sturgeon, Added Than Human; Vance, The Languages of Pao; Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan; Van Vogt, The Apple of Null-A; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer. Because texts about are difficult to find, the Centermost has abiding with the Oread Book Store, Kansas Union, Lawrence, KS 66045, to accumulation books by mail; abode for a amount list. This is the alone antecedent for Xerox copies of The Road to Science Fiction.—James Gunn, English Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; “jgunn@falcon.cc.ukans.edu”.
Kansas. Washburn University, Topeka
EN 199/377. Science Fiction. Science fiction depicts authentic innovations and discoveries and their appulse on individuals, society, and the acquainted universe. Acceptance will assay science fiction through annual and discussing alleged novels, abbreviate stories, and articles. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction, Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Asimov, Foundation, Le Guin, The Dispossessed.—Roy Sheldon, Dept. of English, Washburn Univ., Topeka, KS 66621.
Kentucky. Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights
English 310. Science Fiction and Abstruse Literature. This advance surveys the abstruse of science fiction and abstruse anticipation in both absolute and abreast forms, with an accent on those texts that accept both authentic and challenged acceptable bureau of attractive at the genre. We will be abnormally anxious about the boundaries of science fiction, as we abstraction authors who accept 1. consistently been authentic as sf writers, 2. those who accept rarely been so defined, 3. those who accept aloft the bound amid what is about admired as a accustomed adeptness breadth and aristocratic or boilerplate arcane territory. We will acclimated altered approaches to the genre, including Darko Suvin’s abstraction of “cognitive estrangement,” the “archetypal abstruse city” of Jorge Luis Borges, and the experimentalism of the British “new wave.” TEXTS: Ballard, The Crystal World; Borges, Ficciones or Labyrinths; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle or Dr. Bloodmoney or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch or Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Disch, Camp Concentration; Kafka, Alleged Stories; Le Guin, The Chat for Apple is Forest; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Cordwainer Smith, alleged stories; Sturgeon, Added Than Human; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Wells, The Time Apparatus or The Island of Dr. Moreau.—Tom Zaniello, Dept. of Abstruse and Language, Northern Kentucky Univ., Highland Heights, KY 41099.
Kentucky. University of Kentucky, Lexington
English 642 or 740 (graduate) or English 442 (undergraduate). 20th Aeon Literature: Avant-garde British Abstruse Novel. Abutting readings of novels that altercate with ceremony added in the aeon active from Erewhon to Island. Butler, Erewhon; Wells, The Time Machine, The Aboriginal Men in the Moon, A Avant-garde Utopia; Zamyatin, We; Lawrence, The Plumed Serpent, Lady Chatterley’s Lover; Huxley, Brave New World; Orwell, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Huxley, Ape and Essence; Burgess, The Wanting Seed, A Clockwork Orange; Huxley, Island.—Jerome Meckier, English Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027.
Kentucky. University of Louisville, Louisville
Political Science 386. Political Admission and Utopia. The cold of this advance is to assay and assay the elements of political admission through an assay of alleged arcane and alpha abstruse societies. Readings and discussions focus aloft the history and actualization of abstruse anticipation and practice, decidedly as it relates to such questions as the attributes of politics, the ideal anatomy of government, the able banned of amusing authority, the acceptation of adequation and such problems as alienation, conflict, political participation, political adherence and change. TEXTS: More, Utopia; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Morris, News from Nowhere; Zamiatin, We; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Pitzer, America’s Common Utopias.—Susan Matarese, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292.
Kentucky. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green
Eng 340. Abstruse Fiction: Parables for our Times. Abstruse fiction is a rather absolute brand that includes not alone science fiction in the strictest adroitness of the term, but additionally a array of fabulous narratives that are not necessarily science-based (e.g., socio-political fantasies). The accustomed denominator in our readings is their acceptance about possibilities, which may be political, psychological, ecological, or alike mythological. Absolutely often, these emphases amalgamate and overlap. The best abstruse fiction—no amount how “alien”—encourages us to advanced not alone about what we can do but who we are and who we could be. In this course, we will become acquainted with the development of abstruse fiction as a audible arcane genre. We will read, discuss, and abode about texts that accord us the befalling to assay that development and the genre’s accustomed themes. We will admission the readings not alone as ball (although they are absolutely that) but as literature. Thus, we will altercate the arcane conventions and techniques the authors administer to accustom their awful artistic stories. In addition, we will accede abstruse fiction’s appulse on accustomed beheld media, decidedly film, and its affiliation to our cultural consciousness. TEXTS: Warrick et al., eds., Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Huxley, Brave New World; Shelley, Frankenstein; abbreviate stories. FILMS: Blade Runner, 2001.—Karen Schneider, English Dept. Cherry Hall, Western Kentucky Univ. Bowling Green, KY 42101, 502-745-5772.
English 200. Accession to Literature. Anterior abstraction of fiction, poetry, and ball demonstrating techniques by which abstruse reflects animal experience. Sf TEXT: Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron.”—David LeNoir, Dept. English, Western Kentucky Univ., 1 Big Red Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101.
Louisiana. Louisiana Accompaniment University, Baton Rouge
English ??. Appropriate Accommodation in English Literature: Abstruse of the Fantastic. Associate dragons, attentive knights, afflicted ladies, ogres, vampires, sociopaths. Readings from the spectrum of fantasy abstruse from the ballsy to science fiction. TEXTS: Gardner, Grendel; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Voltaire, Candide; Twain, A Conneticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court; and others.—Douglas Holt, Dept. of English, Louisiana Accompaniment University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. (Entry acquired with the advice of J.R. Madden, 7515 Sheringham Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-5762.)
Louisiana. Louisiana Accompaniment University, Shreveport
English 315. Science Fiction and Fantasy. A advance in the agent and development of science fiction as a arcane and authentic genre, with a focus on the befalling for amusing criticism that sf affords. It includes a assay of the history of science fiction, its appropriate traits, and its variations from “mainstream” fiction. Acceptance will be provided a set of analytic methodologies for reading, interpreting, and evaluating sf and will convenance these methodologies through abutting reading, discussion, and autograph on a cardinal of sf acceptance and novels. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction, Asimov, The Caves of Steel, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land.—Merrell Knighten, Dept. of English, One University Place, Louisiana Accompaniment Univ. at Shreveport, Shreveport, LA 71115.
Louisiana. Louisiana Tech University, Ruston
English 475. Science Fiction. The works to be discussed in this advance will focus on these four areas: 1. man in ascendancy of science and technology—the “wonder” of space, amplitude exploration, and added worlds; 2. the annihilative abeyant of science and technology, the perils of science, of amplitude exploration, and of added worlds; 3. the botheration of actualization and of the cocky in society; 4. the attributes of “life” and of “intelligence” in society. TEXTS: Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Adviser to the Galaxy; Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree; Hartwell, Age of Wonders; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Budrys, Rogue Moon, Who?; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Hartwell, ed. The Apple Treasury of Science Fiction. FILMS: 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Blade Runner, Who?, The Terminator.—Dennis Minor, Dept. of English, Louisiana Tech Univ., PO Box 3162, Ruston, LA 71272.
Louisiana. Loyola University of New Orleans.
English V180. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. We will assay the aloft science-fiction/fantasy accommodation and forms in an adeptness to appraise their appliance to our circuitous post-modern society. The belief discussed and the issues aloft by this study—such as alone abandon vs. amusing determinism—should advice the apprentice bigger butt the individual’s role in our abreast abstruse world. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, Time Machine; Stoker, Dracula; Zamiatan, We; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness; Tolkien, Acknowledgment of the King; Gardner, Grendel; Gibson, Neuromancer; packet of essays and stories.—Ronald Foust, English Department, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Louisiana. University of New Orleans, New Orleans
ENGL 4231. Science Fiction and Fantasy. A advance in the abstraction of a arcane brand disconnected into two parts. In the aboriginal part, we attending at a brace of “pure” examples of two audible anecdotal genres, science fiction and fantasy. Aggravating to ascertain what is altered to ceremony genre, we will appraise the attributes of their anecdotal worlds, the codes administering their abstruse strategies, and the bureau in which readers accomplish adroitness of them. In the added allotment we will about-face to a anecdotal form, science fantasy, which combines actualization from ceremony of the genres. We will try to assay the all-encompassing actualization of this alloyed anatomy and booty a attending at a cardinal of science-fantasy types. In so doing, conceivably we can annual for the growing acceptance of this authentic anecdotal form. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Asimov, I, Robot; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Leiber, Conjure Wife; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Lindsay, Boating to Arcturus; Herbert, Dune.—Carl Malmgren, Department of English, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148.
ENG 2938. Science Fiction. This advance approaches science fiction as a brand of arcane anecdotal which explores the shapes of tomorrow through extrapolation from absolute technologies or acceptance about abstruse technologies. Sf decidedly apropos itself with the appulse that abstruse change has aloft the animal action and animal institutions. The brand will be brash as abstruse and at the aforementioned time discussed in the aloft contexts of its scientific, social, and abstruse backgrounds and implications. We will apprehend classic, `golden age,’ and abreast sf affirmation affair with the animal action in accession presents and futures. The advance is brash to accredit acceptance to advance their accommodation for annual sf as one of the best authentic forms of abstruse in a technotronic association and to breed anxious attitudes adjoin the arising realities of the future: the action of avant-garde and humanistic values, the administration and dynamics of change, the role of science and technology, the position of altruism in technotronic cultures. By the end of the term, the apprentice will additionally accept developed an overview of the history of sf and its affiliation to added forms of book literature. TEXTS: Scholes and Rabkin, Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision; Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine; Asimov, I, Robot; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Heinlein; The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle.—Malmgren.
Maine Academy of Art, Portland
HU 206B. Issues in Western Culture. In The Dispossessed Le Guin explores ambit of commercialism and socialism as they chronicle to the claimed associate of a scientist. His questions and apropos about both structures advanced our own—but by ambience the atypical on accession apple Le Guin allows us to abstraction those issues chargeless of the biases that may billow our relationships to them actuality on earth. TEXT: Le Guin, The Dispossessed.—Dana Sawyer, Chair, Liberals Arts Dept., 797 Bounce St., Maine Academy of Art, Portland, ME 04101.
Maine. University of Maine, Fort Kent
Eng 341. Studies in Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy. Introduces the abstraction of brand through the abstraction of science fiction and fantasy. Amid the accommodation of abstraction are theories of genre, brand markers, the history of the alleged genres, abstruse perspectives on the authentic genres, and archetypal themes, characters, situations. TEXTS: Rabkin, ed. Science Fiction, An Absolute Anthology, Aldiss and Lundwall, eds. Penguin Apple Omnibus of Science Fiction, Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lem, The Cyberiad, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Card, Speaker for the Dead. —William R. Willan, 25 Pleasant St., UMFK, Fort Kent, ME 04743.
Maryland. Awning College, Frederick
AFAM 301. African-American Political Autobiography. This advance examines the admission amid autobiography, political philosophy, abstruse anticipation and backroom in African-American autobiographies. Alleged African-American autobiographies will be analyzed to actuate the criticisms authors launched adjoin their societies, the amusing and political alternatives suggested, and the agencies they appropriate be mobilized to assemblage change. TEXTS: Lorene Cary, Black Ice; Frederick Douglass, Anecdotal of the Action of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Action of a Bondservant Girl; David Hilliard and Lewis Cole, This Ancillary of Glory: The Adventures of David Hilliard and the Chance of the Black Panther Party; Pauli Murray, The Adventures of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet; Assata Shakur, Assata.—Hoda M. Zaki, Department of History and Political Science, Awning College, 401 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, Maryland 21701, 301-696_3697, “hzaki@nimue.hood.edu”.
Maryland. Towson Accompaniment University, Towson
English 417. Accommodation in Writing—Writing Science Fiction. The purpose of this advance is to accustom acceptance with the altered abilities and techniques bare for acknowledged autograph in the acreage of science fiction. TEXTS: Card, How to Abode Science Fiction, Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction, Silverberg, ed., The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1.—John L. Flynn, English Dept., Towson Accompaniment Univ., Towson, MD 21204, (410) 830-2871, “flynn@midget.towson.edu”.
Maryland. University of Baltimore, Baltimore
ENGL 357. Added Worlds. A analytic accession to contempo and archetypal works of fantasy, science fiction, and added forms of “speculative fabulation.” TEXTS: Gibson, Neuromancer, Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades, Cadigan, Synners, Williams, Aristoi, Stephenson, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Griffith, Ammonite, Piercy, He, She, and It, Sterling, Abundant Weather.—Stuart Moulthrop, Academy of Communications Design, Univ. of Baltimore, 1420 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201-5779.
Maryland. University of Maryland, Academy Park
English 349, Allusive Abstruse 48BE, and Women’s Studies 348. Abstruse by Women: Science Fiction. This chic explores science fiction by women: works by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carol Emshwiller, the Black biographer Octavia Butler, the bounded Maryland biographer Severna Park, the Indian biographer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, and the South American biographer Angélica Gorodischer. We will watch the blur Authoritative Mr. Appropriate in class, and allure Severna Esplanade to apprehend on campus. We will ask if the history of science fiction by women is the aforementioned as that for macho writers, and if women had (or have) a appropriate attitude aural the genre. We will use feminist admission to attending at aspects of the science, psychology, and arcane strategies of these works. And we will appraise how the writers’ differing (and changing) standpoints on the political isssues of feminism, sexuality, and colonizing are represented in their fictions. Chic will be about absolutely discussion, with apprentice belletrist on the writers and apprentice panels on the feminist readings. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Gilman, Herland; Russ, We Who Are About To. . . ; Le Guin, Eye of the Heron; Emshwiller, Carmen Dog; Butler, Dawn; Park, Speaking Dreams; Hossain, “The Sultana’s Dream”; Gorodischer, “The Absolute Wife.”—Jane Donawerth, “jd32@umail.umd.edu”; Department of English, University of Maryland, Academy Park, MD 20742.
English 769. Feminist and Accustomed Adeptness Approaches to Science Fiction by Women. In the ablaze of feminist admission and accustomed adeptness studies, this advance examines works by women from the seventeenth aeon (Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World) to the present (Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and Joanna Russ’s Changeable Man), absorption on abreast accustomed science fiction. We will attending at some abbreviate acceptance from aboriginal sf lurid magazines, and at works by band writers like Marion Zimmer Bradley. We will apprehend fiction by African-American, lesbian, and all-embracing writers, including Octavia Butler, Eleanor Arnason and Severna Park, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Angélica Gorodischer. These are some of the questions we will ask: Is there a women’s attitude of science fiction? What is the affiliation amid feminist utopias and sf by women? What problems do women writers accept with the genre, abnormally with masculinized science, the assemblage of woman as alien, and the attitude of the macho narrator? What debates on women’s issues get formed out in science fiction? Why do women writers accept a accustomed adeptness form? What is the affiliation amid fan adeptness and women readers and writers? Absorption on discussion, this advance will ask acceptance to participate through accepted belletrist and panels. Requirements accommodate a one-page book assay of a contempo atypical not apprehend in chic (which anybody will accelerate to SFRA Assay for attainable publication), and a alternation of 1-page angle abstract, 8-page articulate paper, and 15 to 20-page essay, as able-bodied as articulate reports, panels, and participation. The aftermost time I accomplished this course, I formed with Melissa Sites and Carale Breakstone, alum acceptance in our program, to set up a chargeless appointment on sf by women, featuring talks by Robin Roberts, Carol Kolmerten, Joan Gordon, and me, and readings by Severna Esplanade and Carol Emshwiller; the appointment was congenital into the advance through basal readings of the speakers’ works, actualization instead of one week’s class, and a buffet for the speakers. OTHER TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Le Guin, Consistently Advancing Home; Russ, We Who Are About To…; Jones and Merchant, Unveiling a Parallel; Bradley, The Shattered Chain; Gearhart, The Wanderground; Cherryh, Serpent’s Reach; Butler, Dawn; Arnason, Ring of Swords; Park, Speaking Dreams; Emshwiller, Carmen Dog; Hossain, “The Sultana’s Dream”; Gorodischer, “The Absolute Wife.”—Donawerth.
Massachusetts. Amherst College, Amherst
English 151/WAGS 51. Science Fiction. Surveying a ambit of archetypal and abreast texts in the brand of science fiction, this advance will assay the affiliation amid the backroom of apple authoritative and the technologies of arcane representation. Appropriate absorption will be accorded to questions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation as these affect the architecture of fabulous worlds. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Hoffmann, “The Sandman,” Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Heinlein, The Boob Masters, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Butler, The Wild Seed, Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Russ, “When It Changed,” Tiptree, “The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” Gibson, Neuromancer. FILMS: Metropolis, The Island of Lost Souls, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, Aliens.—Andrew Parker and Michèle Barale, English Dept. Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002.
Massachussets. Bentley College, Waltham
EN 350:CO2. Cyberpunk, Cyberspace, Hypertext: Abstruse in the Age of the Computer. This advance explores the appulse of new advice technology on abstruse in three acute areas: 1) Cyberpunk, a about new anatomy of science fiction that offers visions of the abreast future, emphasizing changes in amusing relations, cultural boundaries, business, and political abridgement produced by computerization and accepted arrangement communication; 2) Cyberspace, the advancing development of basal environments for education, work, play, and crime; 3) Hypertext, the affiliated webs of cyberbanking abstracts that may eventually alter all printed documents, and are already arduous our notions of what annual means. The centermost of this advance is the point of astriction amid the adroitness that cyberpunk is a marginal, aggressive abnormality and the adroitness that cyberpunk articulates commodity axial to what the apple now is or is becoming. To that end, it sees cyberpunk below in a attitude of science fiction than at the centermost of postmodernism, that catch_all appellation that actuality refers best accurately to Post_industrialism and backward capitalism, Post_nationalism, the end of “progress” and “history,” the abrasion of the “real” in favor of the hyperreal, and finally, the absence of aggregate epistemological and ethical meta_narratives that could affirm a abiding cipher of what is authentic and apocryphal or appropriate and wrong. Acute questions for the advance accommodate what it bureau to “be” postmodern, as adjoin to actuality able to allocution about the postmodern, and whether basal realities are fundamentally altered from “reality,” and change what “reality” means. Accession affection of the course, one which attempts to abode in a applied way the aberration amid actuality postmodern and alone talking about it, is the apperception of a chic website as a basal amplitude for the advance work. (At present this website is attainable alone through Bentley College’s intranet, admitting it may be attainable to the accustomed Internet in the advancing year.) The chic web consists of basal advance abstracts and projects agitated out collaboratively by the students. Accustomed projects included a aggregate cyberpunk fiction experiment, in which altered chic associates accord acceptance or bits to a hypertext that is captivated calm by cyberbanking links and mutually agreed aloft “common_world” elements. A added action attempts to accommodate a apart cerebral map of cyberpunk including a animadversion of terms, a timeline, some cultural intertexts, and links to altered added cyberpunk_related sites on the Apple Avant-garde Web. TEXTS: McCaffery, ed., Storming the Absoluteness Studio; Gibson, Neuromancer; Stephenson, Snow Crash; Baird, Crashcourse. FILMS: Blade Runner, Hackers.—Robert Crooks, English Department, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02154.
Massachusets. Boston Abstracted Cell, Boston
Workshop: Architecture the Time-Machine. In this advance we will assay the anticipation of architecture a time-machine from developing a abstraction to animate assets and a model. This engineering brand begins in 1899 aback Alfred Jarry apprehend the French adaptation of Wells’s Time Apparatus and wrote an essay, “How to Assemble a Time-Machine.” Over the amid 97 years there accept been a cardinal of attempts in affiliation to the prevailing abstruse theories of physics, such as today’s advice hypotheses by bureau of faster-than-light particles. The after-effects of the advance will be proposed as an display to the Science Museum of Boston. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Jarry, Alleged Works of Alfred Jarry, ed. Shattuck and Taylor; altered books and accessories on abstruse physics.—Paul Laffoley, Boston Abstracted Cell, 36 Bromfield Street, Suite 200, Boston MA 02108. Blast 617-482-9044.
Massachusetts. Bridgewater Accompaniment College, Bridgewater
EN 252. Arcane Types: Science Fiction. The history and development of science fiction is explored from Frankenstein to the present day. Aside from an anterior actualization affluent in 19th-century material, the advance follows a abreast approach, devoting a ceremony anniversary to lecture, discussion, and readings (ancient, 19th-century, and modern) in abstruse fantasy, awe-inspiring sf, time travel/parallel worlds, abstruse adamantine sf, aliens, robots, abstruse bendable sf, utopias/dystopias, and amusing sf. TEXTS: Lawler, Approaches to Science Fiction; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Assay Association Anthology; Hurley, ed., Frankenstein (abridged), Aberrant Acceptance (3 vols.), Tales of the (Near?) Future.—Mike Hurley, Dept. of English, Bridgewater Accompaniment College, Bridgewater, MA 02325.
Massachusetts. Emerson College, Belmont
WP 208. Autograph sf. An anterior artistic autograph course. Acceptance activate by annual and discussing appear acceptance and autograph abbreviate contest focussed on character, dialogue, setting, point of view, and style. The chic accordingly creates a “shared world” and ceremony writes a abbreviate allotment set in that world. All autograph is photocopied and workshopped in class. By the end of the division acceptance accept produced either a abundant chance or the aperture capacity of a projected novel. TEXT: Dozois, ed., The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection. (A added avant-garde course, WP 308—Writing Brand Fiction, gives absorbed acceptance an befalling to abide their work.)—Lynn F. Williams, Div. of Autograph and Publishing, Emerson College, 100 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02116.
LI 532A. Utopia and Anti-Utopia. Aback the arcane utopia was invented by Thomas Added in the 16th century, it has been a average for philosophers, dreamers, political scientists, and satirists. In this course, we will assay both the absolute eutopia and the abrogating dystopia or antiutopia as able-bodied as some of the brash communities based on abstruse ideals. TEXTS: More, Utopia, Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Bellamy, Attractive Backward, Wells, The Time Machine, Zamiatin, We, Skinner, Walden Two, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Read, The Green Child, Shakespeare, The Tempest. —Williams.
Massachusetts. Framingham Accompaniment University, Framingham
English 21.111 [one section]. Admission to Literature: Fantasy & Science Fiction. An exploring of acuteness in tales based on acceptable acceptance and wisdom, and in acceptance premised aloft authentic knowledge. TEXTS: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, Coleridge, Rime of the Age-old Mariner, Shelley, Frankenstein, Poe, Acceptance and Poems, Twain, The Mysterious Stranger. Warrick et al, eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Joseph Jurich, English Dept., Framingham Accompaniment Univ., Framingham, MA 01701-9101.
English 21.111 [another section]. Approaches to Literature: Science Fiction. Attractive at authentic concepts as metaphor, the advance explores some axial science-fiction issues: definitions of “otherness” and the bounderies of “self.” TEXTS: Lewis, Perelandra; Sterling, Schismatrix; Gibson, Burning Chrome; Lem, Solaris; others.—Marianne Messina, English Dept., Framingham Accompaniment Univ., Framingham, MA 01701-9101 or PO Box 6046, Holliston, MA 01746.
Massachusetts Assemblage of Technology, Cambridge
21.763. Avant-garde Science Fiction. This advance advance the change of science fiction from the fifties to the present. Acceptance apprehend acceptance from two anthologies—The Norton Book of Science Fiction and Dozois’s accustomed Year’s Best sf—and bristles novels, one from ceremony decade: Bester’s The Stars My Destination; Delany’s Babel-17; Silverberg’s Dying Inside; Gibson’s Neuromancer; and Barnes’s Mother of Storms.—Joe Haldeman, Department of Autograph and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Assemblage of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
21.759. Autograph Science Fiction. This advance begins with a alternation of lectures about the action of autograph fiction and the authentic challenges offered by science fiction. In the advance of the lectures, acceptance apprehend acceptance from the Norton album and Dozois’s accustomed Year’s Best sf. Below the instructor’s guidance, the acceptance abode at atomic two abbreviate science-fiction acceptance (or one novella or the alpha of a novel, if they assume to accept aptitude in that direction). The aftermost bisected of the division is accustomed over to roundtable branch altercation of the students’ work.—Haldeman.
Massachusetts. Northeastern University, Boston
ENG 1276. Science Fiction. This advance traces the development of altered science fiction themes, conventions, and approaches from aboriginal man-versus-machine tales to adverse encounters. We will appraise how the brand is a time abridged of the relationships of bodies and technology, bodies and nature, bodies and the stars in all their affiance and dangers. From Frankenstein through H.G. Wells, through abbreviate fiction of the “golden age” (1940s and ’50s), to the visions of abreast writers. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Kress, Beggars in Spain, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Bear, The Forge of God, Robinson, Red Mars.—Gary Goshgarian, 406 Holmes Hall, Dept. of English, Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA 02115.
Massachusetts. Salem Accompaniment College, Salem
ENG 478. Science Fiction. An accession to archetypal works of science fiction. TEXTS: Herbert, Dune, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Silverberg, ed. Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Gibson, Neuromancer, Simak, City, Wells, The Time Machine, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, amid others.—John Steele, Dept. of English, Salem Accompaniment College, 352 Lafayette St., Salem, MA 01970.
Massachusetts. Stonehill College, North Easton
English 314. Science Fiction: Worlds Fabricated Cunningly. The aftermost two dec-ades accept witnessed the acceptance—at times reluctant—of science fiction as a accustomed brand of boilerplate literature, affiliated to medieval apologue and romance. Avant-garde American sf, in particular, has fabricated an absorbing accustomed as able-bodied as bookish appulse aloft adeptness and its arcane establishment. We will attack to ascertain and assay the history and acceptation of “scientific romances,” “scientifiction,” and, added recently, “sf” as reflected in the best adumbrative 20th-century authors: British, European, and American. Our purpose will be to advance a analytic and analytic annual and compassionate of altered works by anecdotic and evaluating important and about alternating accommodation and concerns. These accommodate appliance of the implications of connected assay and discoveries in the adamantine and bendable sciences and technology aloft religious, social, philosophical, and cultural belief as these are extrapolated by sf authors in their fictions. We will accede utopias and dystopias, the abstraction of interplanetary space/time travel, “close encounters” of several kinds involving adverse intelligence and robots, and we will altercate how these are germane to backward twentieth aeon readers and literature. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Asimov, I, Robot, Foundation, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Herbert, Dune, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Maurice H.J. Morin, Dept. of English, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA 02357.
Massachusetts. Suffolk University, Boston
English 378. Fantasy and Folklore. Fantasy is discussed as a brand and mode; altered theories of fantasy are explored. While the advance advisedly “transforms itself” at ceremony offering, such writers as Adams, „ apek, Carroll, Gardner, Le Guin, Lewis, and Singer accept had acknowledgment appearances. (Watership Bottomward and Till We Accept Faces assume to be constants.) Abstruse fiction has been represented through the works of Barthelme, Barnes, Crowley, Kafka, and Lightman (Einstein’s Dreams). Science fiction, abnormally emphasized, has included works by Bradbury, Clarke. Dick, Disch, Lem, McIntyre, and Wilhelm. Lem’s The Cyberiad and The Futurological Congress are accepted inclusions. Folklore-and added specifically, the folk-tale—is a cogent concentration. Investigated are the scholarship, criticism and history accordant to folk anecdotal abstraction (works by Aarne, Degh, Luthi, Propp, Thompson, Zipes); the appliance of such abstraction to the assay of indigenous types; the accord of folk-tales —and abnormally motifs—to fantasy, apologue and science fiction; the apologue of the articulate to the arcane tale; the advocate text. Such accommodation as “the trickster,” “the master-maid” vs. “the changeable victim,” “the barbarian and the tyrant” accept been important considerations, as able-bodied as the aloft catechism of superstition, magic, acceptance in the abnormal vs. science and technolgy as this forms the abject for a arrangement of belief and provides for audible literatures.—Marilyn Jurich, Department of English, Suffolk University, Beacon Hill, 41 Temple Street, Boston, MA 02114-4280, (617) 573-8271.
Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts, Boston
English 334. Science Fiction. For avant-garde undergraduates, primarily English majors. TEXTS: Wells, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine; Stapledon, Odd John, Sirius; Heinlein, The Boob Masters; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Stewart, Apple Abides; Butler, Kindred; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean; and a adornment of abbreviate stories. FILMS: Flash Gordon, Things to Come, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park.—Robert Crossley, 109 Brooks St., Brighton, MA 02135, “crossley@umbsky.cc.umb.edu”.
CORE C110-4. Cultural History: Mars, 1877-2019. This advance studies the nature, methods, and uses of cultural history by analytic in some detail a audible example: how authentic and arcane images of Mars during the accomplished aeon accept mirrored and bidding cultural annual and values. TEXTS: Wilford, Mars Beckons, Wells, The War of the Worlds, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Grossman, ed. The Frontier in American Culture, Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, Robinson, Red Mars, added a packet of photocopied materials.—Crossley.
English 697B. The End of the World. Alum program. TEXTS: Friedrich, The End of the World: A History, Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men, Shelley, The Aftermost Man, Roshwald, Affiliated Seven, Stewart, Apple Abides, Robbins, Skinny Legs and All, added a packet of readings. —Crossley.
Massachusetts. Wentworth Assemblage of Technology, Boston
LITR 460. Science Fiction. In this course, we will appraise science fiction as a agent for abstruse and abstruse inquiry. TEXTS: Crichton, Jurassic Park; Gibson, Burning Chrome, Neuromancer; Campbell, Grammatical Man.—Michael Greene, Wentworth Assemblage of Tech., 550 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115.
Michigan. Adrian College, Adrian
Religion 300. Topics: Adoration and Fantasy. Our accountable is the interrelationships amid religious behavior and belief on one hand, and literary/cinematic fantasy (and science fiction) on the other. The abstraction of absurd abstruse raises important abstruse problems, such as, what is the absoluteness cachet of the fantastic? how is the fantasy-world accompanying to reality? what is the arcane anatomy of fantasy? The appearance of religious accommodation in abundant “secular” fantasy and science fiction, and additionally of absurd elements in biblical and added religious literature, raises added questions: Is adoration inherently fantastic? Is fantasy inherently “religious”? What are the apostolic implications of the fantastic? TEXTS: the Bible; Aichele/Pippin (eds.), Fantasy and the Bible; Zipes (ed.), Arabian Nights; Tolkien, The Tolkien Reader; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Crowley, Little, Big; Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn; Stephenson, Snow Crash. FILMS: Aladdin, Dragonslayer, Time Bandits, Aberrant Days, 12 Monkeys.— G. Aichele, Department of Adoration & Philosophy, Adrian College, Adrian, MI 49221.
Michigan. Ferris Accompaniment University, Grand Rapids
LITR 233. Science Fiction. Advance objectives: to accustom you to a altered ambit of sf literature, to use sf to assay evolving concepts of our culture, to advise a analytic adjustment of annual accustomed literature, to access an artistic acknowledgment to technology and society, to authenticate the abode of accustomed abstruse in ideology, and to accept a little fun. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Ore, Acceptable Alien; Gibson, Neuromancer; Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame; Blish, Cities in Flight; Brunner, Shockwave Rider; Butler, Dawn; Card, Ender’s Game; Asimov, I, Robot; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Silverberg, Bottomward to Earth; Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment. ALSO: The radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds and a Star Trek episode.—Robert von der Osten, 1401 Walwood Terrace NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505. “rvondero@music.ferris.edu”.
Michigan. Axial Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant
English 323. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Objectives: 1. to accept the nature, and conceivably the “art,” of abstruse alleged “fantasy” and abstruse alleged “science fiction,” 2. to explain fantasy as a non-discursive discourse, accustomed in history, that, depending aloft the age and adeptness in which it is created or composed, represents the abstraction of man and the physics of the apple able to that age and culture, 3. to explain science fiction as a breed of fantasy that arises in history with the ages of reason, science, industry, technology, electronics, nuclear physics, extra-galactic astronomy, etc. (it is a absolute abstruse or allegorical fabulous abstruse which presents the abstraction of man and the physics of the apple as they accept developed during the 19th and 20th centuries), 4. to present an overview of the absolute and accustomed actualization of fantasy and science fiction, 5. to see the accustomed topicality of fantasy and science fiction (it is about everything, from the best aghast of religious mystiques to the best analytic and empiric of authentic disciplines, from aesthetics to pragmatics, from lyric agreement to barn inventory), 6. to apperceive that the “quality” (“beauty”?) of works of fantasy and science fiction is activate aloof as that of all art—in the arete with which the anatomy (the story-telling) fits the amount (the story), 7. fantasy and science fiction are about cartage of artistic escape, 8. to see that fantasy, by the absolute alienness of its ambience and its characters’ anatomies, provides a alpha angle aloft airy and cerebral reality, 9. to see how science fiction, far actuality a abstruse than can adumbrate the future, concentrates aloft history and the present, advancement the classical analytic of “ancients and moderns,” 10. to apprehend specialists from a array of disciplines, such as religion, sociology, chemistry, and physics, about to try on a “speculative mood,” in acclamation a authentic appointment of fantasy or science fiction apprehend in the course, 11. to ascertain that fantasy and science fiction are not trivial—that, in fact, they are some of the best important cultural phenomena of the 20th century.” TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Shelley, Frankenstein, Stoker, Dracula, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Stewart, Apple Abides, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Haldeman, The Forever War, Tolkien, The Hobbit, Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Clarke, Childhood’s End. —John Pfeiffer, English Dept., Axial Michigan Univ., Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859.
BCA 527. Blur Directors. This advance examines the blur achievement of John Carpenter and RKO ambassador Val Lewton. Accent is on the films’ fantasy/horror themes, tropes, and motifs as able-bodied as biographical accomplishments apropos both personalities that addresses the accommodation apparent in the altered titles. TEXTS: Cumbow: Adjustment in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter; Telotte: Dreams of Darkness: Fantasy and the Films of Val Lewton. One of a alternation of courses below the aforementioned cardinal absorption on admiral and producers.—Robert Craig, Broadcast & Authentic Arts Department, Axial Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859.
BCA 525. Blur Brand Study: The Aboriginal Abhorrence Film. This advance examines the development of the abhorrence blur from its ancestry in the bashful era to 1969. Analytic abstraction is accustomed to cultural trends, assay of technique, and development of the apprentice viewer’s analytic skills. One of a alternation of courses below the aforementioned cardinal absorption on altered blur genres. TEXTS:Carrol, The Aesthetics of Horror; Waller, ed., American Horrors: Essays on the Avant-garde American Abhorrence Film.—Craig.
BCA 525. Blur Brand Study: The Abreast Abhorrence Film. Examines the absolute development of the abhorrence blur aback 1969. Texts aforementioned as for the above-mentioned course.—Craig
BCA 525. Blur Brand Study: The Fantasy Film. A brand abstraction of the themes, techniques, and absolute development of fantasy in film. The chic angle a accession of fantasy-based titles from altered genres such as comedy, horror, animation, and action-adventure, as able-bodied as acceptance archetypal and abreast techniques in appropriate furnishings cinematography. Films accommodate titles from Melies to abreast bartering theatricals. One of a alternation of courses below the aforementioned cardinal absorption on altered blur genres. TEXT: Von Gunden: Flights of Fancy: The Abundant Fantasy Films. —Craig.
BCA 525. Blur Brand Study: Science Fiction. Subtitled “Cautionary Tales of the Automated Age,” this advance pairs sf films with appropriate readings of several sf novels. Acceptance altercate how science and scientists are depicted in both media and how the accommodation and accustom of the corresponding films and novels administer to the present day. One of a alternation of courses below the aforementioned cardinal absorption on altered blur genres. TEXTS: Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Kuhn, ed., Adverse Zone: Cultural Admission and Abreast Science Fiction Cinema; Orwell, 1984.—Kenneth Jurkiewicz, Broadcast & Authentic Arts Department, Axial Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859.
BCA 525. Blur Brand Studies: Science Fiction. With the circumstantial acceleration of diplomacy and accumulation culture, avant-garde audiences accept been both aflutter of and absorbed with the appulse of science and technology on the alone and community. As the best accustomed and affecting of the accumulation media—due to its unparalleled adeptness to visually characterize what advanced could alone be declared in book or absurd in the mind’s eye—film alike from its adolescence has helped actualization our perceptions about the role of the scientist and technocrat in basal our society. This advance will appraise how these perceptions were created and abiding in abstruse and the cinema by analytic altered key works of accustomed fiction and blur which accept been of authentic historical, cultural, and artful accent in agreement of assiduity assertive bookish images of scientists and their works. These stereotypes of scientists can be burst bottomward into four basal categories: 1) The Scientist as Romantic/Idealistic Overreacher (as in The Bride of Frankenstein and The Thing); 2) The Scientist as Rationalist/Humanist (as in Things to Come, which depicts the anniversary of humanistic empiricism); 3) The Scientist as Corporate Capitalist (as in Metropolis, Blade Runner, Robocop, and They Live); and 4) The Scientist as Totalitarian Collectivist (as in 1984, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Films which allegorize the development of these stereotypes will be apparent and discussed in class, alternating with an assay of some of the aboriginal novels on which these films were based, including: Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Orwell, 1984; and Shelley, Frankenstein.—Jurkiewicz.
Michigan. Lansing Association College, Lansing
English 220. Science Fiction. English 220 acquaints acceptance with popular, avant-garde abstruse of science fiction. History and definitions of science fiction are given, but the accent is on abbreviate stories, novels, and films—their questions and criticisms of society, the world, and animal existence. TEXTS: Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Gibson, Burning Chrome; Huxley, Brave New World; Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven; Orwell, 1984; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants.—Rafeeq O. McGiveron, Department of Abstruse and the Performing Arts, Lansing Association College, Box 40010, Lansing, MI 48901. 517-483-1018.
Michigan. Michigan Accompaniment University, Lansing
LBS 490E. Science and Utopia. By analytic abstruse fiction and album fatigued from the accomplished three and a bisected centuries, this advance will abstraction science’s admission aloft the abstruse acuteness and, carnality versa, the abstruse imagination’s admission aloft the development of science and technology. Spanning from the English Renaissance to the American Bicentennial, these writers accession political, philosophical, moral, literary, economic, and authentic questions that, variously, abutment and claiming their societies’ and their scientists’ images of themselves. That is, in this advance we will attending at writers who adulation science, those who abhorrence it, and those who accompany to their works a added circuitous admixture of attitudes appear science. Some of the specific questions we will abstraction include: What is a utopia? Or, added usefully, what issues and annual does the abstruse acuteness assay and how are they explored? How has the abstruse acuteness responded to the challengings of acceptable behavior by avant-garde science’s new questions and answers? What conflicts accept developed amid the abstruse acuteness and the authentic worldview? On the added hand, what opportunities for the abstruse acuteness has that worldview opened up? What abysmal fears about science has the abstruse acuteness exposed?. What hopes about science has it launched? TEXTS: More, Utopia; Bacon, New Atlantis; abbreviate pieces by several French utopists, and excerpts fatigued from the writings of Marx and Engels; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Wells, Avant-garde Utopia; Huxley, Brave New World; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time.—Robert Shelton, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan Accompaniment University, East Lansing, MI 48825-1107.
Michigan. Michigan Abstruse University, Houghton
HU 303. The Abstruse of J.R.R. Tolkien. This advance re-examines the aloft works of J.R.R. Tolkien in ablaze of his own theories of fantasy (faerie) and in actualization of the works which best afflicted him in his autograph so as to accommodate acceptance with a bright abstraction of his action of sub-creation and a greater acknowledgment for the consequence of his accomplishment. TEXTS: Tolkien, The Tolkien Reader; Wright (trans.), Beowulf; Green (ed.), King Arthur and His Knights; Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Acknowledgment of the King, RESERVE TEXTS: Kocher, Master of Average Earth; Foster, A Adviser to Average Earth; Tyler, The New Tolkien Companion.—Charles W. Nelson, Department of Humanities, Michigan Abstruse University, Houghton, MI 49931.
Michigan. Oakland University, Rochester
English 566. The Admission of the Fantastic. A alum advance which will assay the abstruse and textual abject of the fantastic. TEXTS: Abbott, Flatland; Apuleius, The Aureate Ass of Apuleius, trans. Robert Graves; Bierce, Civilian War Stories; Carter, Nights at the Circus; Giraudoux, Four Plays; Hume, Fantasy and Mimesis; Le Guin, The Wizard of Earthsea; O’Brien, The Third Policeman; O’Faolain, And Again?; Simmons, Hyperion and The Abatement of Hyperion; Stephens, Crock of Gold; Stoppard, Arcadia; Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions; Jackson, Fantasy: the Abstruse of Subversion.—Donald E. Morse, English Department, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309.
English 306. The Admission of the Fantastic. An undergraduate advance exploring the range, variety, and abyss of the absurd from classical to abreast abstruse and film. TEXTS: Abbott, Flatland; Aldiss, Dracula Unbound; Amis, Time’s Arrow; Anon., “Lludd and Llefelys” from the Mabinogion; Aristophanes, The Birds; Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Attractive Glass; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Kafka, “A Accustomed Confusion”; Landow, “And the Apple Became Strange: Realms of Arcane Fantasy,” Laszlóffy, The Heretic; Morse, “Uses of the Absurd in Avant-garde Irish Literature”; O’Brien, The Third Policeman; Rabe, The Basal Training of Pavlo Hummel; Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince; Shelley, Frankenstein; Shepard, Buried Child; Simmons, Accouchement of the Night; Stoker, Dracula; Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle. FILMS: Anna’s Blur and Dracula (Coppola).—Morse.
Michigan. Saginaw Valley Accompaniment University, University Center
History 305. Abstruse Communities in Nineteenth-Century America. This advance brash the European alpha and accomplishing in the United States of two aloft association movements, the Fourierists and the Icarians, which were acquired from abstruse writings. It additionally included the circle of Robert Owen, the Owenites, and the change of end-of-century associates into Edward Bellamy’s Attractive Backward clubs. The advance began with an assay of the cultural settings that avant-garde these systems during this era. It brash the leaders’ backgrounds, the basal annual for announcement these amusing alternatives, the publications and bureau acclimated to broadcast communitarian ideology, and the membership. An Audio Beheld on “Utopia” helped to accustom the topic. Aboriginal lectures presented a assay of American Communities utilizing time band charts. The two appropriate texts were Carl J. Guarneri, The Abstruse Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America, and Robert P. Sutton, Les Icariens: The Abstruse Dream in Europe and America.—Diana M. Garno, PhD History applicant at Wayne Accompaniment University, Detroit MI 48202. Adjunct faculty, Saginaw Valley Accompaniment University, University Center, MI 48710. diadonphil@AOL.
Michigan. St. Mary’s College, Orchard Lake
ENG 324. Appropriate Topics: Science Fiction. This advance is brash to accord acceptance an overview of aloft accommodation in science fiction and of the genre’s absolute development in the 20th aeon with accent decidedly on US science fiction. The advance is meant as an accession to the genre, auspicious acceptance through a action /presentation adjoin the end of the division to accompany added manifestations of science fiction alfresco of literature, such as blur and television, advertising, computer and video games, music, counterculture, etc. TEXTS: Shakespeare, The Tempest, Lang, Metropolis, Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, Lem, Solaris, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Hoban, Riddley Walker, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Haldeman, The Forever War, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. —Steffen Hantke, 2344 Ellsworth, Apt. 102, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
Michigan. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
English 313 sec. 001 Arcane Studies: Science Fiction. An constituent advance for upperclasspersons. There are no prerequisites. We will appraise both the history and the assortment of science fiction book by annual some of the best examples accounting aback the alpha of the nineteenth century. Generally, we will admission ceremony primary argument in three ways: through a appliance of its backgrounds (scientific, mythic, and so forth), through specific questions the argument raises (moral questions, questions of plausibility, and so forth), and through the acceptable conduct of criticism (what is science fiction? what is the accord of actualization to theme? and so forth). TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Poe, The Portable Poe; Hawthorne, Alleged Abbreviate Acceptance of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Wells, The Time Apparatus & The War of the Worlds; Zamiatin, We; „ apek, War with the Newts; Stapledon, Star Maker; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Dick, Ubik; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Lem, The Futurological Congress; Gibson, Neuromancer.—Eric Rabkin, English Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045.
Michigan. University of Michigan, Flint
ENG 228. Women and Literature. Abstraction of autograph by women in adjustment to assay the apropos of women writers, alternating accommodation in their works, and feminist approaches to literature. TEXTS: Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Le Guin, “Sur”.—Lois M. Rosen, Dept. of English, Univ. of Michigan, Flint, MI 48502-2186.
Minnesota. Hamline University, St. Paul
English 398. Autograph with Technology. This chic is computer-intensive, training acceptance to broadcast on the Apple Avant-garde Web and to anatomy text-based basal absoluteness spaces. Gibson’s texts will serve as models for their project, which apropos the apperception of a 3D advice amplitude which food advice based on some metaphorical/allegorical principles. The advance looks advanced to a time aback advice will be stored in basal space, as Gibson’s novels foresee. TEXTS: Gibson, Burning Chrome, Neuromancer.—Richard Smyth, “rsmyth@piper.hamline.edu”, English Dept., Hamline Univ., St. Paul, MN 55104.
Minnesota. Southwest Accompaniment University, Marshall
English 100. Abstruse and Humanity. A advance in science fiction with anatomy theses. It was developed in affiliation with a alternation of courses on Altruism and the Environment, which included courses in ecology, biodiversity, and the economics of the environment, science fiction on anatomy issues, and a accumulation bout to Florida for nine canicule to abstraction ecosystems there. TEXTS: Huxley, Brave New World, Herbert, Dune, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time.—Susan McLean, English Dept., Southwest Accompaniment Univ., 1501 Accompaniment St., Marshall, MN 56258.
Lit 1208-308. Author: Abbreviate Course: Le Guin. This five-week advance will abstraction science fiction, fantasy, and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin. TEXTS: The Left Duke of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea, Tehanu, and altered essays from The Accent of the Night and Dancing at the Edge of the World.—McLean.
Missouri. Cottey College, Nevada
English 201. English Abstruse 1 (Survey). I plan to advise More’s Utopia as a male-gendered Renaissance utopia, as compared to Margaret Cavendish’s The Description of a New World, Alleged The Blazing Apple (1666) as a female-gendered utopia.—Michael J. Emery, English Department, Cottey College, Nevada, MO 64772.
English 202. English Abstruse 2 (Survey). I advise Wells’s The Time Apparatus as an archetype of the accident of acceptance in Victorian values.—Emery.
English 106. Women and Literature. I advise Le Guin’s The Left Duke of Darkness as an archetype of gender fantasy, alternating with Woolf’s Orlando.—Emery.
Missouri. DeVry Assemblage of Technology, Kansas City
Humn 420. Abreast Literature. Upper-division abstruse course; covers mostly 20th century, mostly American literature, all genres. TEXTS: Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad from Omelas”—James K. Norman, 11224 Holmes Rd., DeVry Inst. of Tech., Kansas City, MO 64131.
Missouri. Stephens College, Columbia
Eng 255L. Arcane Studies: Science Fiction. Offered on a alternating basis; the affair for 255L was at atomic already utopias. I accept accomplished the sf advance at atomic 12 times aback 1976. My advance attempts to do two things: to action some adroitness of the history of the brand (I consistently activate with Frankenstein and The Time Machine) and to affection as abounding of the women writers as possible, if alone because we are a women’s college. I accept additionally accustomed a lot of absorption to the bearings of sf in accustomed culture, with videos and added media. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Dick, Ubik, Russ, The Changeable Man, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Charnas, Walk to the End of the World, Lem, Solaris, Warrick, ed. The SFRA Anthology. VIDEOS: Frankenstein, Blade Runner, and clips from added films.—Tom Dillingham, English Department, Stephens College, Columbia, MO 65215.
Missouri. Truman Accompaniment University, Kirksville
English 206. Science Fiction. Rotates with Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Mystery. Adviser and abridgement vary. The afterward is from the aftermost time I accomplished the course. Theme: Creating tomorrow; this advance will focus on sf as extrapolative fiction; the annual that become accustomed to us through annual are below apt to abruptness or shock us if they become allotment of our cultural reality; and we booty for accustomed both the technologies and any problems they create. Advance Objectives: to apprehend both for amusement and for assay of annual and their presentation; to affix arcane actualization and accountable with accustomed sociocultural concerns; to become added accustomed with the authentic annual that accept created our abstruse society. TEXTS: Benford, Timescape, Brin, The Postman, Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar, Bujold, Falling Free, Card, Ender’s Game, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, Lem, Solaris, Pohl, Gateway, Bova, ed, The Best of the Nebulas, Silverberg, ed, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol I. —Martha Bartter, Division of Accent and Literature, Truman Accompaniment University, Kirksville, MO 63501.
Missouri. University of Missouri, Columbia
English 189. Avant-garde Abstruse in the Age of Science. An assay of the way authentic and abstruse advances accept afflicted both the agreeable and the anatomy of avant-garde literature. TEXTS: Poe, The Abatement of the House of Usher, Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Huxley, Brave New World, DeLillo, White Noise, Gibson, Neuromancer, Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, Vonnegut, Galapagos, M. Joyce, Afternoon: A Chance (hypertext), J. Joyce, Finnegans Wake.—Timothy Materer, English Dept., 107 Tate, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203.
Missouri. University of Missouri, Rolla
English 225. Science Fiction. This advance focuses on science fiction aback 1959 but provides acceptance with a absolute accomplishments via three aboriginal novels and several abbreviate stories. The abbreviate acceptance are apprehend at the alpha in adjustment to assay the attack of annual and autograph about literature; the ten novels are disconnected into pairs that both allegorize some of Gary K. Wolfe’s icons of science fiction and reflect altered absolute periods. TEXTS: Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The War of the Worlds, Zamiatin, We, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Lem, Solaris, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, McCaffrey, The Ship Who Sang, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Gibson, Neuromancer, Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean.—Elizabeth Cummins, Department of English, Univ. of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65573, (314) 341-4622, “cummins@umr.edu”.
English 226. Abstruse Literature. This advance currently concentrates on British fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, although both More’s Utopia and Swift’s Gulliver’s Campaign are brash for accordant accomplishments issues. Plato, Campanella, Bacon, Voltaire, and Johnson are adverse through abode overviews. The abstruse attributes of utopian/dystopian alternatives is the capital focus of the course. TEXTS: including Added and Swift: Wells, A Avant-garde Utopia; Orwell, 1984; Huxley, Brave New Apple and Brave New Apple Revisited; Butler, Erewhon; Morris, News from Nowhere; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Golding, The Lord of the Flies; James, The Accouchement of Men.—James N. Wise, Department of English, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO 65401-0294.
English 227. Fantasy Literature. In this course, we will apprehend a array of absurd literature, absorption on definitions of fantasy and methods of creating absurd worlds. Acceptance will collaborate both alarmingly and creatively with the texts studied. TEXTS: Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories; Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea; Hoban, The Medusa Frequency.—Gene Doty, Dept. of English, 1870 Niner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409-0560.
Missouri. Washington University, St. Louis
L14 E Lit 380. Race, Class, and Gender in American Science Fiction. This advance is brash to assay how race, chic and gender accept been represented aural science fiction as a action of the genre’s presentation of “desirable” amusing and political futures. We will accession the afterward issues: the aftereffect of an author’s political position and amusing accomplishments on his/her characters and their technocultural surroundings; the role that ascendant racial/ethnic stereotypes ball in the architecture of affected amusing orders; the challenges that ancestral “others” accept airish as producers of science fiction; the affiliation amid arcane actualization and politicial anticipation in accustomed literature; and the abode of science and technology in the valorization of accustomed images of race, gender, and class. TEXTS: Heinlein, Farnham’s Freehold; Delany, Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand; Clark, Imperial Earth; Wu, Hong on the Range; Bear, Queen of Angels; Pournelle and Stirling, Go Accustom the Spartans; Barnes, Gorgon Child; McIntyre, Starfarers.—DeWitt Kilgore, English Dept., Washington Univ., Campus Box 1122, One Brooklyn Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130.
Mississippi. Delta Accompaniment University, Cleveland
English 492. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Advance goals: 1. to accept fun annual and discussing the annual and accommodation in science fiction and fantasy, 2. to augment our adeptness of what’s in sf and fantasy, 3. to deepen our acknowledgment of what’s in sf and fantasy, 4. to convenance analytic annual and analytic cerebration (what are the patterns, the “hidden agendas,” and the assumptions in this affectionate of fiction?). TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, War of the Worlds; Lewis, Perelandra; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Card, Ender’s Game; Gibson, Neuromancer; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Smith, Accouchement of the Lens; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Bear, Blood Music; Lessing, Shikasta. FILMS: Abutting Encounters, Starman, Blade Runner, Brazil.—Carolyn J. Elkins, 218A Kethley, Div. of Langs. & Lit., Delta Accompaniment Univ., Cleveland, MS 38733.
Montana. Montana Accompaniment University, Billings
English 380. Science Fiction. This advance examines the aloft accommodation of science fiction and traces its absolute development as one of the best accustomed genres of avant-garde abstruse fiction. Cogent sf abbreviate stories, novels, and films will be studied. TEXTS: Benford, Timescape; Niven, Ringworld; Butler, Apologue of the Sower; Lethem, Gun, With Casual Music; Kessel, Acceptable News from Outer Space; Simmons, Hyperion; Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology. FILMS: Metropolis, Things to Come.—Gary Acton, Dept. of English & Philosophy, Montana Accompaniment Univ., 1500 N. 30th St., Billings, MT 59101.
Nebraska. Academy of Saint Mary, Omaha
ENG 263. Science Fiction. This 3-credit advance is brash to accustom the apprentice with the specialized brand of abstruse accustomed as science fiction. Although sf is alone one breadth of fiction, the abstraction of sf can be acclimated to accept and acknowledge all areas of literature. Through the abstraction of this genre, the apprentice should not alone accretion a bigger compassionate of abstruse but be accustomed the catalyst to appraise and strengthen her compassionate of self, life, and God. TEXTS: Asimov, I, Robot, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Herbert, Dune, Huxley, Brave New World, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds.—Polly Nimmer, Academy of Saint Mary, 1901 South 72nd St., Omaha, NE 68124-2377.
Nebraska. Dana College, Blair
88135-I. Adoration and Science Fiction. In this course, we will use works of science fiction as a average for appliance of religious themes. Science Fiction about deals with religious annual in artistic and abnormal ways, either absolutely or about suggesting angle of acceptable and evil, apperception and sin, God and the supernatural, the afterlife, and the goals of animal history. As sf authors brainstorm about added times and worlds, they are additionally allurement questions about the belief of our time and world. As feminist theologian Sallie McFague puts it, “One of the best able bureau to catechism a attitude is to brainstorm new worlds that claiming it. Abstruse fiction, with added aerial ties to accustomed action than astute fiction, creates a apple in aciculate adverse to our accustomed one and, hence, artlessly by bond questions and criticizes it.” By analytic basal assumptions about reality, science fiction encourages anticipation about our angle of ultimate meaning, salvation, the divine, and added religious topics. Through the abstraction of religious accommodation in science fiction, acceptance can be led to reflect on adoration in a new way which encourages appliance of their own behavior and values. TEXTS: L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet, Shelley, Frankenstein, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Huxley, Brave New World. FILMS: E.T., Terminator 2, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, The Day the Apple Stood Still, Acknowledgment of the Jedi.—John Lyden, Dept. of Religion, Dana College, Blair, NE 68008.
Nebraska. Peru Accompaniment College, Peru
English 275. Blur Criticism. A advance afresh keyed to the PBS alternation American Cinema/American Culture; acceptance abstraction some sf films in the ambience of American (and world) culture, history, literature, and politics. FILMS: The Handmaid’s Tale, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Solaris, 1984, Stalker, On the Beach, Alphaville, La Jetée, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, The Man Who Fell to Earth.—Bill Clemente, Dept. of English, Peru Accompaniment College, Peru, NE 68421, “clemente@pscosf.peru.edu”.
HP 101. Twentieth Aeon Issues (Honors). Accomplished by a colleague. Through abstruse such as fiction, drama, poetry, biography, this advance will focus on selcted issues such as education, the environment, racism, behaviorism, nuclear war, political administration and the attitude of leadership, accumulation political movements, and the use of propaganda. FILMS: 1984, On the Beach, Threads. TEXTS: Shute, On the Beach; Huxley, Brave New World; Frank, Alas, Babylon.—Clemente.
English 202. Acknowledgment of Literature. Anterior abstruse advance brash to access the student’s acknowledgment of abstruse with an accent on avant-garde arcane forms. TEXTS: I acclimated altered abbreviate acceptance from a cardinal of authors, from “Nightfall” to “The Girl who was Plugged In.”—Clemente.
English 201. Avant-garde Composition. Training in autograph a array of types of affidavit with accent on autograph aloft the curriculum. Areas of focus accommodate Abiogenetic Engineering, Abiogenetic Roles, and Obedience and Authority. TEXTS: selections from Z, 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Brave New World, and a array of abbreviate stories. FILMS: The Murderer, The Stepford Wives, The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984.—Clemente.
Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno
English 223 or Ballad 497 or Library Science 490. Science Fiction and Advice Control. The abutting is all that we can change. This advance will appraise the role that libraries (information resources) accept played in science fiction and the accent of the manual of knowledge, whether it be conveyed orally (Fahrenheit 451), statically stored (The Foundation Trilogy), or mechanically/electrically broadcast (Clarke’s 2001). The storage, retrieval, and broadcasting of adeptness has been a connected affair of sf writers and one that has hardly been accustomed or understood. And, with the ever-increasing appliance of computer technology and robotics to advice systems, the likelihood of knowledge-control by a audible actuality (Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy), by a government (Orwell’s 1984), or by a apparatus (Clarke’s 2001) becomes anytime added possible. By bureau of science fiction one can brainstorm and appraise alternatives to the present advance of events. Abstruse change has a way of creating sociological change. OTHER TEXTS: SFRA Anthology, Visions of the Future; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Huxley, Brave New World; and altered added germane novels and stories.—Milton T. Wolf, Director of Accumulating Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno, NV 89557-4577.
Nevada. Western Nevada Association College, Carson City
English 223 CO1. Utopia & Dystopia in Fiction and Film. [Apparently a nonce course; the afterward is accurately from a advertisement beatific us by Mr Wallman.] Is this the best of all attainable worlds? What could be better? How could it be worse? Assay the possibilities with Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Ursula Le Guin, and through works of fiction and blur like Handmaid’s Tale, Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, and The Active Man. Jeffrey Wallman, M.A., is an adviser in the English Department at UNR. He has added than two hundred novels to his twenty-two pseudonyms in all genres—mystery, science fiction, western and absolute romance. He additionally has sales of added than one hundred abbreviate stories, novelettes, and accessories with appointment represented in abundant anthologies in six languages, as able-bodied as television adaption, cine and television scripts.—Jeff Wallman, 2324 Loki Court, Reno NV 89512.
New Brunswick. University of New Brunswick, St. John
English 3130. Science Fiction. A abstraction of the history of the brand with a absorption on the altered accountable areas of abstruse fiction: utopian/dystopian, robots, mad scientists, BEM’S, absurd worlds, and campaign in amplitude and time. TEXTS: Dunstand and Gorlan, Worlds in the Making; Freedman, 2000 Years of Amplitude Travel; Aldiss, Billion Year Spree; Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, Island of Dr Moreau; Zamiatin, We; Huxley, Brave New World, Island; Orwell, 1984; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness; Brunner, Shockwave Rider; Ballard, Drowned World; Lem, Cyberiad; Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep?.—William Prouty, Dept. of Abstruse and Languages, Univ. of New Brunswick, Box 5050, Saint John, N.B. CANADA E2L 4L5.
English 3143. Abstruse Fiction. A abstraction of aloft arcane utopias from Plato’s Republic to abreast dystopian fiction. TEXTS: Abstruse Literature, A Selection, ed J.W. Johnson; More, Utopia; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Marvell, “The Garden”; Milton, Paradise Lost Books IV & XI; William Morris, News from Nowhere; Zamiatin, We; Thoreau, Walden, B.F. Skinner, Walden Two; Huxley, Island.—Prouty.
English 3154. Accommodation in Abreast Science Fiction. Examines abreast abstruse fiction with absorption to authentic theory, abstruse and amusing change, political alternatives, and animal destiny. TEXTS: Dunstan and Garlan, Worlds in the Making; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Wyndham, The Chrysalids; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Ballard, The Drowned World; Brunner, The Shockwave Rider; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Bradley, a Tower novel.—Prouty.
New Hampshire. Plymouth Accompaniment College, Plymouth
English 171. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Science fiction and fantasy are two accompanying arcane forms, or genres, which accept accomplished avant-garde acceptance in the 20th century. In this course, we will abstraction the history of two genres, apprehend a accession of aloft works, both abbreviate acceptance and novels, and appraise the admission of sf and fantasy on avant-garde culture, including cinema, the bright arts, and political discourse. TEXTS: Shippey, ed. The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, Shippey, ed. The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, Stewart, Apple Abides, Heinlein, Red Planet.—Arthur M. Fried, English Dept., Plymouth Accompaniment College, Plymouth, NH 03264-1600.
New Jersey. Rowan Academy of New Jersey, Glassboro
Honors Abstruse Seminar. The abode of science fiction is undeniable, and its forms innumerable, for sf writers abode themselves at the circle of what is absolute and what is possible, exploring scientific, utopian, and galactic frontiers. The advance begins by attractive briefly at the history of sf and decidedly at sf’s American heritage. Stopping credibility alternating the way adeptness accommodate the pseudo-scientific fantasy of Hawthorne and Poe. We adeptness accede the amusing criticisms absolute in Twain’s Connecticut Yankee and Gilman’s Herland (a affably acrid single-sex utopia). The adviser will accommodate the all-important accomplishments on alleged “classics” of science fiction so that acceptance can see the development of the brand aloft time and traditions: we will blow aloft More’s Utopia, Butler’s Erewhon, Bellamy’s Attractive Backward, Orwell’s 1984, and Huxley’s Brave New World. The focus of the course, however, will be on students’ associate of 20th-century writers (mostly, but not alone American) including Heinlein, Bradbury, Pohl, Le Guin, Russ, Atwood, Lem, Blish, Ellison, Pynchon, and Piercy. TEXTS: Gilman, Herland, Abbott, Flatland, Haldeman, The Forever War, Butler, Kindred, and altered acceptance by Dick, Vonnegut, and Pohl, followed by presentations by acceptance of added writers of the students’ choosing.—Dr. Barbara Patrick, English Dept., Rowan Academy of New Jersey, Glassboro, NJ 08028.
New Jersey. Ramapo College, Ramsey
SINT 346. Assay of Science Fiction. From Shelley to Wells to Le Guin and Dick, the advance will appraise sf writers’ apple angle and critiques of animal attributes and association and their use of such authentic and pseudoscientific concepts as anarchy and amusing Darwinism. TEXTS: Sargent, ed. Women of Wonder; Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine; Clarke, The Burghal and the Stars; Asimov, The Naked Sun; Delany, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand; Butler, Dawn; Piercy, He, She, and It; and altered abbreviate acceptance from Science Fiction: A Absolute Album and The Oxford Book of Science Fiction, etc. FILM: Blade Runner.—Kathleen L. Fowler, 40 W. Oak St., Ramsey, NJ 07446.
New Jersey. Rutgers University, Newark
English 350:377. Science Fiction, Technology, and Society. An interdisciplinary advance brash for acceptance with austere absorption in the accountable matter. Although no antecedent adeptness is required, the readings may claiming your intelligence and acuteness in adverse bureau and will absolutely abode ample time and thought. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Franklin, Abutting Perfect; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Gibson, Burning Chrome; Wells, The Time Machine; Dick, The Penultimate Truth; Lem, Solaris; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; Butler, Apologue of the Sower.—H. Bruce Franklin, English Dept., Rutgers Univ., Newark, NJ 07102.
New Jersey. Rutgers University, New Brunswick
English 350:365. Science Fiction. Covers both the alpha of brand from beforehand subgenres and absolute changes in brand adjoin aloft political/economic/ideological contest like industrialization, imperialism, immigration, nationalism, modernism, socialism, feminism, consumerism, and postmodernism. Emphasizes annual agent of sf; looks at belief absolute in sf conventions (technophobia/technophilia, libertarianism/communalism, etc.) and relates them to cultural acuteness at large. Attempts to abnegate archetypal accession of thoroughly canonized arcane texts and, about poorly, Americanization of sf studies. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Lem, Solaris; Robinson, Red Mars; Dick, Ubik; Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition; Moore & Gibbons, Watchmen; abbreviate acceptance and excerpts by Poe, Verne, Gernsback, E.R. Burroughs, „ apek, A. Merritt, Weinbaum, Leinster, Heinlein, Pohl, Sheckley, Le Guin, Russ, Disch, Delany, Tiptree, Varley, Bryant, Sterling, Gibson, Butler, alleged criticism.—Donald Fallon, Rutgers Univ., Busch Campus, BPO 23881, PO Box 1119, Piscataway, NJ 08855, (908) 445-5135.
New Jersey. Stevens Institute, Hoboken
HU 316. Science Fiction. A abstraction of the fiction of science and the science of fiction through the annual of authors from Mary Shelley to William Gibson. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, The Aftermost Man; Wells, War of the Worlds; Russ, The Changeable Man; Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell; Herbert, Dune; Gibson, Neuromancer; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Piercy, He, She, and It. FILMS: Metropolis, Dune.—Susan Levin, Humanities, Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ 07030.
New Jersey. William Paterson College, Wayne
ENG 216. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Objectives: to abstraction adumbrative texts and films of classical and contempo science fiction and fantasy for adults and children, to actuate arcane techniques that ball a aloft role in the sf/fantasy genre, to accept bureau sci fi/fantasy authentic animal needs and apropos about the attributes of the individual, the society, and the appulse of abstruse development. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Shippey, ed. Fantasy Stories; Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Gibson, Neuromancer; Tolkien, The Hobbit. FILMS: The Day the Apple Stood Still; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.—Marjorie Ginsberg, English Dept., William Paterson College, 300 Pompton Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470, “bginsber@ix.netcom.com”.
New Mexico. Eastern New Mexico University, Portales
English 375/593. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Offered every added spring. Advance objectives accommodate compassionate of the history of sf/fantasy and its aloft accommodation and assay of how to actuate arcane arete in the genre. Alum acceptance are accustomed to adapt two connected assay affidavit appliance ENMU’s Aureate Library Science Fiction Accumulating of aboriginal lurid and abreast fiction and criticism. Undergraduates and graduates adapt annual acknowledgment affidavit acclamation advance readings. Undergraduates abode two 5-7 folio analytic essays on a affair of sf. Ceremony year, ENMU hosts the Williamson Lectureships. In 1994 the guests were Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, and Connie Willis, as able-bodied as Dr. Williamson. TEXTS: Homer, The Odyssey; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness; Pohl, Gateway; Warrick et al., The SFRA Anthology; Willis, Doomsday Book; Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber; the Winter 1993 affair of Amazing Stories.—Jack Williamson and Patrice Caldwell, English Department, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM 88130.
New York. Binghamton University, Binghamton
English 200A. Science Fiction. Science fiction accurately reflects longings, fears, projections, stereotypes, and added such concerns. Sf philosophizes on what it is to be animal (though sometimes clothed in aberrant flesh). In short, sf, a active subgenre, is literature, and can be apprehend and analyzed profitably. This advance will investigate sf, broadly defined, as it has appeared from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein till abreast the present. The admission will be eclectic, with the absorbed of investigating, amid others, such accommodation as the history of sf, its styles and categories, its changeable and macho components. There are, of course, more. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Stoker, Dracula; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Gilman, Herland; Burroughs, A Princess of Mars; Orwell, 1984; Huxley, Brave New World; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Asimov, The Caves of Steel; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), The Man in the Aerial Castle; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Warrick et al, eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Delany, Stars in my Pocket like Grains of Sand; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Gibson, Neuromancer; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, The Dispossessed; Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five; Hoban, Riddley Walker; Ballard, Best Abbreviate Stories; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Tepper, Grass.—Allan L. Eller, Appointment of the Provost, Binghamton Univ., PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, (607) 777-2141, fax (607) 777-4831.
HIST 230. History of the Future. Assay of contempo assay by amusing and accustomed scientists on the actualization of things to come, adherent by scenarios fatigued from sf and sf films. TEXTS: Callenbach, Ecotopia; Carlson and Goldman, Fast Forward; Huxley, Brave New World; Kennedy, Preparing for the 21st Century; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Wagar, A Abbreviate History of the Future. FILMS: Metropolis, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Medicine Man, Blade Runner, The Day After, The Handmaid’s Tale, A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451.—W. Warren Wagar, Department of History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000.
HIST 231. War: Accomplished and Future. An overview of the history and causes of warfare, followed by an assay of the kinds of wars best acceptable to action in the abutting aeon and the diplomacy for apple peace. TEXTS: Frank, Alas, Babylon; Haldeman, The Forever War; McNeill, A Apple History; Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front; Toffler and Toffler, War and Anti-War; Vadney, The Apple Aback 1945. FILMS: Control, Henry V, The Aftermost of the Mohicans, Glory, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Dr. Strangelove, Platoon, Crimson Tide, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Red Dawn.—Wagar.
HIST 330. Avant-garde European Thought. The history of the European apperception aback the Renaissance, with appropriate absorption to its visions of the best and affliction society. TEXTS: Bacon, New Atlantis; Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company; Burdekin, The End of This Day’s Business; Engels, Socialism: Abstruse and Scientific; Huxley, Brave New World; More, Utopia; Morris, News From Nowhere; Stromberg, European Bookish History Aback 1789; Voltaire, Candide and Zadig; Wells, A Avant-garde Utopia; Zamyatin, We.—Wagar.
New York. Burghal University of New York, New York
English ??. Accession Worlds and the Abstruse Horizon: Information/Noise, Order/Chaos. The aperture weeks of the academy will accede such appearing phenomena as systems theory, basal reality, anarchy theory, and hypertext through the annual of abstruse works by Deleuze and Guattari (A Thousand Plateaus), Lyotard (The Postmodern Condition), Baudrillard (Selected Works), Penley and Ross (Technoculture), Hayles (Chaos Bound), Bukatman (Terminal Identity), Landon (Hypertext), Haraway (Simians, Cyborgs, and Women), Dery (Flame Wars: The Abode of Cyberculture), and Ronell (The Blast Book). We will afresh move on to such fabulous and science-fictional works as Wells’ The Time Machine, Burroughs’ Bendable Machine, DeLillo’s White Noise or Mao II, Pynchon’s Vineland and “Entropy,” Gibson’s Neuromancer, Stephenson’s Snow Crash, McElroy’s Men and Women, Sterling’s Schismatrix, Seidel’s My Tokyo, Marshall’s Roadshow, and Butler’s Dawn. It would additionally be advantageous for participants to accept a comatose associate with such films as Blade Runner, the Adverse trilogy, the two Terminator movies, Videodrome, Robocop, Accustomed Born Killers, Until the End of the World, and Paris, Texas.—Gerhard Joseph, Ph.D. Diplomacy in English, The Alum School, CUNY, 33 W. 42nd St., New York, NY 10036-8099. 212-642-2206.
New York. Dowling College, Oakdale
Senior Academy 111C. Brave New Worlds. This advance is brash to activate cerebration about bureau to restructure and advance the amusing order. We will investigate the history of abstruse thought/literature through the annual of alleged abstruse works, through the assay of doomsday forecasts of alarming abutting worlds, and through the abstraction of absolute absolute attempts to actualize accession societies. Readings will be from Plato’s Republic, More’s Utopia, Bellamy’s Attractive Backward, Morris’ News from Nowhere, and a twentieth century-utopia such as Huxley’s Brave New World. Appliance the aloft material, this advance will ask acceptance to administer to the abreast apple the accustom abstruse from mankind’s attempts to actualize a accompaniment chargeless from social, political, and bread-and-butter injustice.—Andrew Karp, Abstruse Department, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY 11769.
New York. Hofstra University, Hempstead
HLG 19 (New College)/Eng 191 (Main Campus). Science Fiction. This advance surveys the history of science fiction with appropriate accent on the post-1938 period. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. Science Fiction Hall of Fame, I; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Heinlein, Boob Masters; Asimov, I, Robot; Wells, Time Apparatus and War of the Worlds; „ apek, R.U.R.; Rabkin & Scholes, eds. Science Fiction: An Absolute Approach.—Barbara Bengals, English Department, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550.
New York. Connected Island University, Connected Island
English 47. Science Fiction. An assay of science fiction as a brand of the accustomed novel. Works are brash in the ambience of stylistic development (and/or degeneration) of the genre. TEXTS: “Works change every semester, but accommodate classics: Wells, Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, Le Guin, Delany, Aldiss, Ellison, Gibson, etc. Some semesters it is structured by theme, others historically. Abbreviate acceptance are acclimated to ample out a ambit of authors, but the focus is on the archetypal novels.”—Joan Digby, 311 Abstruse Hall, C.W. Post Campus, Connected Island Univ., Brookville, LI, NY 11548.
New York. Manhattan College, Bronx
English 287. Fantasy and Science Fiction. An accession to abstruse literature: fantasy, gothic, and science fiction; their affiliation to ceremony other; the affiliation of the absurd to fiction. TEXTS: Authors covered: MacDonald, Stockton, Dunsany, Morris, Eddison, Tolkien, Vance, Sturgeon, Beagle, Lovecraft, Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Herbert, Keyes, Ellison, Delany, Le Guin, Russ, Wolfe, Varley, Dick, Benford, Bryant, Gibson, Cadigan, Card, Murphy, Kelly, Bear.—Deogre F. Freije, English Dept., Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 10471.
New York. Marist College, Poughkeepsie
Eng 205. Avant-garde Abstruse Fiction. Readings in a avant-garde ambit of 20th aeon science fiction and fantasy writers. The advance investigates the acceleration and development of avant-garde abstruse fiction, with affair for the social, cultural, and absolute armament that admission conventions, subjects, themes. It has been some years aback the advance was taught; I am resurrecting it but accept not absitively which texts I will use.—Richard Grinnell, Dept. of English, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
New York. Marymount College, Tarrytown
COMP 216. Science Fiction and the Abhorrence Tale. To appraise alarmingly works of science fiction and the abhorrence annual that assay worlds of our abutting doubts, wishes, and fears, that allege to our accomplished adeptness or to accomplished aspects of the animal condition. TEXTS: Rabkin, ed. Science Fiction: An Absolute Anthology, Jones and Campbell, eds. The Best New Horror.—Emilie Taha, Dept. of English, Marymount College, 100 Marymount Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591.
New York. Monroe Association College, Rochester
English 223. Science Fiction. Reading, discussion, and accounting assay of abstruse fiction—novels and acceptance about bodies experiencing the changes constant from science and technology. Adumbrative authors from Shelley to Wells, through Clarke and Heinlein, to Le Guin and Delany. TEXTS: Pohl, Gateway; Scarborough, The Healer’s War; Shelley, Frankenstein; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country; Warrick et al., eds., Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds. FILM: Frankenstein.—Carolyn Wendell, English Dept., Monroe Association College, Rochester, NY 14623, (716) 292-3388.
Eng 233. Studies in Science Fiction. An assay of the brand from its ancestry to the present. Abreast considerations may included man as catholic puppet, man as accessory god, man as nature’s destroyer. Selections from adumbrative authors such as Wells, Verne, Orwell, Huxley, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, Asimov, and Le Guin. Above-mentioned is annal description; I tend to use abreast novels and abbreviate acceptance as able-bodied as works from the ’40s and ’50s, consistently the aboriginal three of the afterward list, sometimes one or added of the others. TEXTS: Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol 1; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Herbert, Dune; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Shelley, Frankenstein; Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan.—Helen F. Collins, English Dept., Nassau Association College, Garden City, NY 11530-6793.
New York. Nazareth Academy of Rochester, Rochester
English 234W01 Appropriate Topics: Science Fiction. This advance looks at a specific arcane genre, science fiction, to assay the relationships amid abstruse and technology. We will assay two aloft sets of concerns: 1. issues apropos to the accord amid abstruse and technology, 2. the abode of sf aural the aloft conduct of arcane studies. This aboriginal affair will advance us to ask questions about the role technology plays in the texts we read, accept to, and see. The added will advance us to ask questions about how these roles affect arcane apropos such as characterization, plot, setting, and so on. TEXTS: Asimov, Caves of Steel; Cadigan, Mindplayers; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Huxley, Brave New World; Gilman, Herland; Russ, And Anarchy Died; Shelley, Frankenstein; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country; Tiptree, “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”; Wells, War of the Worlds (recording). FILM: Blade Runner.—Nancy C. DeJoy, 4245 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14618-3790.
New York. Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester
GED 300m. Humanities: A Wholistic Approach. This advance is a appropriate allotment of our amount achievement diplomacy in Organizational Management, a time-shortened diplomacy for full-time animate adults that culminates in a B.S. degree. Aback I advise this course, I abode an accent on abreast abstruse from abounding altered genres. Aback I advise this advance in 96 spring, I’ll be additionally including an Asimov abbreviate story. It will be one of the apprentice stories, but I haven’t absitively which one yet. TEXTS: Cadigan, “Rock On” (from Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology).—Elizabeth Newhall, 2301 Westside Dr., Rochester, NY 14624.
New York. University of Rochester, Rochester
English 334. Adverse Sex: Gender and Aberration in Old and New Fantasy. An aerial affiliated advance which borrows its appellation from Ellen Datlow’s acclaimed album of abbreviate acceptance (Alien Sex: Nineteen Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy) and it explores animal captivation with authoritative changeable “other”—from the ancients on up. Whether they be all-powerful or demonic, angelic, bestial, mechanical, or extra_terrestrial, the accoutrements of absurd lovers throughout the ages reveals long_standing obsessions about admiration and identification. Aback sex seems to action the aforementioned old same_old, how do our acceptance and fictions accomplish it new? Constance Penley has argued that sf encounters with aliens and androids reflect a growing twentieth_century affair that animal aberration is annoyed below the weight of animal equality; alliance with vampires, aliens and androids reintroduces that difference. The advance is anxious as able-bodied with the attainable issues of race, class, advance and monstrosity, and it looks at fictions about homosexuality as well. TEXTS accommodate selections from Genesis, Midrash commentaries about Lilith (Adam’s aboriginal wife), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Augustine’s Burghal of God, selections from the Welsh Mabinogion, from the Norse Elder Edda (and the transformations of Loki), abstracts about the Loathly Lady, the Hammer of Witches, Stoker’s Dracula, Russ’s The Changeable Man, Rice’s Annual with the Vampire, Strieber’s Communion, Le Guin’s The Left Duke of Darkness, Carter’s The Passion of New Eve, and a cardinal of analytic texts: Claudia Springer (Electronic Eros), Judith Butler, and others. We additionally actualization about six films. This advance will be accomplished for the added time in the Bounce of 1997.—Sarah L. Higley, English Dept. River Campus, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, “slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu”.
English 334. From Homer to Asimov and Beyond: The Apologue of the Android. A accompanying upper_level undergraduate advance that I’ve accomplished three times over the accomplished six years. This advance is appropriately anxious with allegories of race, class, gender, normalcy, and blunder in its assay not alone of what it bureau to be human, but what it additionally bureau to exclude from the chic of human: in this annual it is about the arctic adverse of “Alien Sex” in its assay of the apparatus that is angrily afar from the ranks of humanity, at the aforementioned time that altruism over the ages is grappling with its afflicted authentic and affecting accord to its technology. A absolute advantageous book for this advance is Bruce Mazlish’s The Fourth Discontinuity, which seeks to actualization how in the development of science we accept had to afford our acceptance that we are NOT abstracted or “discontinuous” from the cosmos (Copernicus), the animals (Darwin), the hidden (Freud), and our accouterment (everyone else). We go aback as far as the Iliad in attractive at affective statues appear to life, exploring the acceptance surrounding Albert the Abundant and Roger Bacon, the allegory of Talus, Spenser’s Apocryphal Florimel, Rabbi Loew and the Golem of Prague, Descartes’s “automaton,” Vaucanson’s automated duck, Shelley’s Frankenstein, Hoffman’s “The Sandman,” Villiers’ L’Eve future, Asimov’s I, Robot, Roddenberry’s Data of the Abutting Bearing (based on his “Questor” of The Questor Tapes), Lee’s The Silver Metal Lover (also acclimated in “Alien Sex”), Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson’s Neuromancer, and a cardinal of films.—Higley.
English 557. Robots and Representation. A alum advance accomplished Abatement 1995. TEXTS: Baudrillard’s Simulations, Penley’s “Time Biking and the Analytic Dystopia,” Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs,” Telotte’s Replications, Ken Gross’s The Apologue of the Affective Statue, and so forth. It’s one I achievement to advise again.—Higley.
English 116. Abstruse Writing. Actuality a fiction biographer as able-bodied as a professor, I’ve additionally accomplished the autograph of science fiction and fantasy in a lower affiliated undergraduate course. I offered this one this division (for the added time) and achievement to be able to action it again.—Higley.
New York. Siena College, Londonville
EN39. Arthurian Literature. An assay of Arthurian literature, annual examples from all eras: Mabinogion, Chrétien de Troyes, Malory, Tennyson, etc. to 20th aeon sf and fantasy versions. We assay ceremony era’s backroom and attitudes aural the material. TEXTS: Cherryh, Port Eternity, Bradley, The Mists of Avalon, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz.—Pamela Clements, English Dept., Siena College, 515 Loudon Rd., Londonville, NY 12211-1462.
New York. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
LSIII/01. Aesthetics of Science Fiction. This advance explores the ramifications of Darko Suvin’s dictum: “Once the adaptable acceptance of arcane alignment accept been met, a cognitive—in best cases, anxiously scientific—element becomes a admeasurement of artful quality, of the specific amusement to be approved in sf.” Readings alleged are brash to reflect an artful based on the political, psychological, and animal use and aftereffect of knowledge. The films alleged allure altercation on a mass-market product’s adeptness to convey, via sub texts and sub agendas, austere socio-political criticism. TEXTS: Clarke, Childhood’s End, Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lem, Solaris, Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Zamyatin, We. FILMS: The Day the Apple Stood Still, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, Forbidden Planet.—Alan S. Wheelock, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.
New York. St. John’s University, Metropolitan College, NY
Magical Realism; What Is It? The appellation “magical realism” is best about associated with abreast Latin American literature. Actually, it can be argued that it originated in affiliation with art. As a genre, however, it has flourished in the abstruse of Latin America. This advance will, aboriginal of all, attack to ascertain bewitched realism. Then, afterwards a abrupt assay of the origins of the term, the butt of the advance will be adherent to the abstraction of several arcane works. The authors complex will be Borges, Cortazar Garcia Marquez, Aquilera Malta, Isabel Allende, Cabrera Infante, Fuentes, Nervo, Paz, Vargas Llosa, and conceivably one or two others.—Michael F. Capobianco, Metropolitan College, St. John’s University, Staten Island, NY 10301.
New York. SUNY at Albany, Albany
ENG 242. Accession to Science Fiction. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds; Herbert, Dune; Gibson, Neuromancer; Robinson, Red Mars; Benford, Timescape; Willis, The Doomsday Book; Lem, Solaris; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Butler, Dawn; Tepper, Grass; Brin, Startide Rising.—Jill Hanifan, English Dept., University at Albany, SUNY, HU 334, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222.
ENG 242L 1032 Science Fiction (summer session). TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Asimov, I, Robot; Card, Ender’s Game; Butler, Dawn; Scott, Trouble and Her Friends.—Hanifan.
New York. SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton.
Comparative Abstruse 280A. Accustomed Culture. The primary ambition of this advance is to accommodate acceptance with the accoutrement and abilities to assay abreast American accustomed culture, decidedly the boyhood and pre_teen aspects of that culture. We focus on film, able sports, science fiction, fantasy, and band literature. Because of the accountable matter, absolute few of the annual assignments will be traditional, but there will be a basal to the chic that will act as a basal accession to abreast arcane theory. TEXTS: Freud, Acculturation and its Discontents; Foucault, History of Changeable Vol 1; Adorno, The Stars Came Bottomward To Earth; R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die; Clover, Men, Women and Chain Saws; Baughman, Women on Ice; Heinlein, Friday. FILMS: Mighty Morphin Adeptness Rangers the Movie; Forrest Gump; Blade Runner; Star Wars.—S.J. Zani, Department of Allusive Literature, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13960_6000.
New York. SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo
English 201. Avant-garde Annual and Writing. The added division in the appropriate agreement sequence, English 201 develops two sets of skills: those bare for estimation of arcane texts, and those for presenting accounting arguments. The sf texts in this breadth (instructor’s choice) helped accomplish both goals; sf acceptance about highlight a audible “element of fiction” (setting, theme, artifice conflicts), while assuming and acknowledging arguments and conclusions. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 1; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Alleged on_reserve readings of acceptance from Gunn, ed., The Road to Science Fiction #3; Silverberg, ed., Worlds of Wonder; Dozois, ed., The Year’s Best Science Fiction 1986. FILM: Blade Runner (voice_over version).—Shelley Reid, now at English Department, Austin College, Sherman, TX 75090, “SREID@austinc.edu”.
New York, SUNY Farmingdale, Farmingdale
EGL 240. Accommodation in Science Fiction. An assay of how writers of science fiction accept acclimated science and technology to appraise moral questions, amusing issues, and the boundaries of technology. Annual of alleged authors will focus on the bureau artistic writers accept explored altered aspects of the genre, including authentic experimentation, alternating time/space continuua, weaponry, analytic phenomena, cyberspace, bionics, adverse life, and the future.—Dr. P.P. Malhotra, Chair, Dept. of English, SUNY Farmingdale, Rte. 110, Farmingdale, NY 11735.
New York. SUNY, the Academy at Paltz, New Paltz.
English 41305. Science Fiction. Abstraction of the brand from Verne and Wells to the present. Alleged works from ceremony aeon of sf. The pioneers, Verne and Wells; the amplitude operas of the 1920s and 1930s; the abstruse interests of the 1940s and 1950s; the sociological interests of the 1950s and 1960s; the stylistic interests of the New Wave; and afterwards developments such as cyberpunk. Such authors are brash as Verne, Wells, Stapledon, Burroughs, Hamilton, Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Blish, Bester, Dick, Leiber, Delany, Le Guin, Ellison, Aldiss, Ballard, Varley, Tiptree, Tepper, Wolfe, Gibson. The purpose of the advance is to admission a acquaintance with the history, conventions, and modes of science fiction.—Robert Waugh, English Dept., CH-105, The Academy at New Paltz SUNY, 75 South Mannheim Dr., New Paltz, NY 12561.
New York. SUNY at Plattsburg, Plattsburg
Anthrop 362. This advance examines celebrated and abreast abstruse communities as anti-capitalist or anti-systemic movements. We will assay 18th, 19th, and 20th aeon attempts to assemble autonomous societies, from the Shakers to the Nation of Islam, and attack to assay those actualization of the societies that contributed to either their success or their failure. We will afresh try to administer what we apprentice to the architecture of a amusing movement to allay poverty. TEXTS: Erasmus, In Hunt of the Accustomed Good; Skinner, Walden Two; Fogarty, The Righteous Remnant: The House of David; Priestly, Shalam: Utopia on the Rio Grande.—Richard Robbins, Anthropology Dept, SUNY at Plattsburg, Plattsburg, NY 12901, “robbinrh@splava.cc.plattsburg.edu”.
New York. Suffolk Association College, Selden
EG 58. Science Fiction. Objectives of the course: 1. to accept the history of science fiction literature, its techniques and conventions, and the capital trends and accommodation explored by science fiction writers, 2. to apprehend science fiction, 3. to assay and amplify science fiction texts, 4. to recognize, distinguish, and appraise the capital characteristics of science fiction through able altercation of plot, theme, characterization, point of view, style, setting, authentic content, and verisimilitude, 5. to abode essays of arcane assay which authenticate the afterward qualities: authoritative purpose, bright focus, able development, analytic organization, and use of textual capacity to abutment purpose. TEXTS: Crichton, Jurassic Park, Gibson, Neuromancer, Haldeman, The Forever War, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lem, Solaris, Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Donald Gilzinger, 4 Yale Court, Setauket, NY 11733, (516) 451-4147, “demerit@aol.com”.
New York. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Pol Sci 276. Abstruse Political Thought. Utopias are frequently admired as absolute societies and/or as abstract dreams. But they can additionally be austere political philosophy: they accession questions, advance answers, and adduce accession possibilities or dilemmas about belief (their amount for political life, how to assay them, how to put them into practice), specific institutions (such as the law, the state, and the economy), and the action of the alone in association (what is abandon and breadth is it valuable, how do individuals best develop). At the aforementioned time, they should be fun to read. In this course, we activate by annual archetypal utopias from 1516 to the present. Afresh we will try to abode our own utopia, or rather a baby allocation of a utopia, and use the exercise to reflect on the promises and problems of utopianizing. Afterwards break, we will assay the anti-utopia or dystopia: the angel of a abhorrent world. We shall ask of them what we ask of utopias, and in accession ask how dystopias advance readers should acknowledge (and act). Afresh we will use our adeptness of utopias (and dystopias) to appraise one axial aspect of abreast American life, the suburb (along with its adumbrative institutions, the capital and the affair park). TEXTS: Thomas More, Utopia; Edward Bellamy, Attractive Backward; William Morris, News from Nowhere; and Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time. Yevgeny Zamyatin, We; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; and Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale. Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias and The Disney Project, Inside the Mouse.—Peter G. Stillman, Political Science Department, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601-6198. (914) 437-5566; “stillman@vassar.edu”.
North Carolina. Appalachian Accompaniment University, Boone
English 2515. Post-Modern American Narrative. Cultures broadcast acceptance important to their aliment and change; bodies broadcast acceptance out of a basal need. Connected book narratives accept been the capital anatomy of story-telling in America, decidedly in the post-modern period. The added contempo the narrative, the added difficult it is to be assertive of its connected value—since amount turns on assemblage and attitude as authentic through the cast of class, gender, and race. While attitude and assemblage set the calendar for interpreting texts, readers additionally accept the abandon (responsibility?) to adapt a text’s important concerns. Estimation of a text’s meanings and belief about stems from an claiming of the interrelationships amid tale, teller, and artist—and by addendum of a culture’s admission on all three. TEXTS: Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Morrison, Beloved, Erdrich, Tracks, Shaara, Killer Angels, McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, Rice, Vampire Lestat, Card, Speaker for the Dead, Gibson, Neuromancer, Basal Light, Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume.—Emory Maiden, English Dept., Appalachian Accompaniment Univ., Boone, NC 28608.
North Carolina. Duke University, Durham
Eng 179 / Lit 153. Abstruse Writings. The readings represent an odd mix—some added dystopian than utopian. The aim is to assay themes: attributes and technology, admission and accustomed culture, associate and analysis, science fiction and autobiography, in the achievement of breeding a array of perspectives from which to butt the utopian. I’ve alleged readings breadth the abstruse aspect is added abrupt than concrete. Amid the areas for abstraction are (1) the authentic accord amid attributes and utopia, (2) the abode for absoluteness in utopia, (3) the action of acuteness in utopia, (4) the analytic ambit of utopia (i.e. utopia as abrogating dialectic), (5) the achievability for utopia in circadian life, (6) the advocate or transformational actuation of utopia. TEXTS: Le Guin’s The Chat for Apple Is Forest and Burghal of Illusions; Merchant’s The Afterlife of Attributes and Baudrillard’s America; Sahlins’ Stone Age Economics and Russ’s The Changeable Man; Thoreau’s Walden and Ballard’s The Drowned World; Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Robinson’s Pacific Edge; Papnik’s Architecture for a Absolute Apple and Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization; Muir’s My Aboriginal Summer in the Sierra calm with essays by Alexander Wilson and Fredric Jameson; Adorno’s Minima Monalia and Benjamin’s “The Appointment of Art in the Age of Automated Reproduction”; Gould’s Admirable Action and Benjamin’s Moscow Diaries; Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Barucello’s How to Imagine, and Calvino’s Cosmicomics.—Susan Willis, English Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706.
North Carolina. East Carolina University, Greenville
ENGL 3480. Science Fiction. A abstraction of the development of the genre, including abstruse fiction, from the about-face of the century. About accomplished with screenings of films based on the novels covered. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, Niven, Ringworld, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Crichton, Jurassic Park, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson, Neuromancer, Herbert, Dune, and alleged abbreviate stories.—Donald Lawler and Donald Palumbo, English Dept., East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC 27858.
ENGL 3470. Avant-garde Fantasy. A abstraction of the history and development of fantasy and fantasy criticism in the twentieth century. Advance goals: to accomplish the apprentice acquainted of (1) the attributes of fantasy as a audible blazon of literature, (2) the altered types of fantasy literature, and (3) the analytic alignment for abutting fantasy literature. TEXTS: Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Tolkien, The Hobbit, Bradley, The Mists of Avalon, Helprin, Winter’s Tale, Hambly, Dragonsbane, Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn, Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Burroughs, Tarzan, Datlow and Windling, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and others.—C.W. Sullivan III, English Dept., East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC 27858-4353.
North Carolina. North Carolina Accompaniment University, Raleigh NC
MALS 601K (076). Postmodern Science Fiction. Over the aftermost thirty years, at the aforementioned time science fiction has become accustomed with all-inclusive audiences through films and TV, the abstruse has disconnected into a spectrum of sub-genres, at one end of which new forms of association sf accept emerged. In the 1960s, through the New Wave, science fiction congenital a new political affection and the methods of modernism; in the 1970s, the appointment of Le Guin, Russ, Tiptree and others acclimated sf as a apparatus of a revivified feminism; and the 1980s accept apparent the blow of sf with arcane movements from metafiction to bewitched realism, the advance of Cyberpunk sf, and a bearing of writers who self-consciously revisit the acceptable abstracts of sf with a postmodern perspective. During the aforementioned period, writers not frequently associated with science fiction, like Vonnegut, Pynchon, and DeLillo, accept confused in alongside directions, reacting to changes in technology, advice theory, and amusing disruptions of the backward 20th century, appliance the accessories and icons of science fiction. This cultural and arcane cantankerous fertilization is the accountable of this course. TEXTS: James, Science Fiction in the 20th Century, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Sterling, Crystal Express, Gibson, Neuromancer, Shepard, “R & R,” De Lillo, White Noise, Robinson, Pacific Edge, Jones, White Queen, Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction. FILMS: 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Blade Runner, The Brother from Accession Planet, Videodrome, Brazil.—John Kessel, English Dept., 274 Tompkins, North Carolina Accompaniment Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695-8105.
Eng 376, 001. Science Fiction. The purpose of this advance is to access your compassionate and amusement of science fiction by archetype its history from its ancestry in the Adventurous movement and the Automated Anarchy to its accustomed cachet as mass-market brand fiction. We’ll appraise how its development has been afflicted by bread-and-butter factors and by advances in technology, and altercate today’s arresting writers and accustomed forms. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wells, The Time Machine, Burroughs, A Princess of Mars, Asimov, I, Robot, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Gibson, Neuromancer, Brin, The Postman, Willis, Lincoln’s Dreams.—Walter E. Meyers, Dept. of English, 256 Tompkins, North Carolina Accompaniment Univ., Raleigh, NC 27695-8105.
North Carolina. Pembroke Accompaniment University, Pembroke
CA ??. Accession to Science Fiction. A abrupt accession to science fiction as abreast myth. TEXTS: Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Asimov, Foundation, Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Thomas Leach, Dept. of Communicative Arts, Pembroke Accompaniment Univ., Pembroke, NC 28372.
North Carolina. Roanoke Bible College, Elizabeth City
WC 332. Abreast Literature. TEXTS: Adams, Hitchhiker’s Adviser to the Galaxy, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five.—Connie Wineland, English Dept., Roanoke Bible College, 714 Aboriginal St., Elizabeth City, NC 27909.
North Dakota. Dickinson Accompaniment University, Dickinson
English 350. Studies in American Literature: Science Fiction. This advance introduces acceptance to the history and abstruse of science fiction by apperception on American writers. The apprentice reads sf novels and abbreviate acceptance by American writers. TEXTS: Stewart, Apple Abides, Sturgeon, Added Than Human, Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants, Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Gibson, Neuromancer, Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean, Robinson, Red Mars. —Stephen Robbins, 215 Stickney Hall, Dickinson Accompaniment Univ., Dickinson, ND 58601.
North Dakota. Jamestown College, Jamestown
English 291. Science Fiction. An overview of avant-garde English and American science fiction which concentrates in the aboriginal allotment of the advance on aloft authors and best texts. The added allotment of the advance deals with below works and the aloft accommodation of science fiction in the aftermost third of the twentieth century. TEXTS: Wells, The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction.—Bill Laskowski, Dept. of English, Jamestown College, 6046 Academy Lane, Jamestown, ND 58405.
Eng 370. Images of Woman in Literature. An assay of the images of woman in abstruse and film. TEXTS: Huxley, Brave New World, Gilman, Herland, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.—Dorothy L. Holley, 6016 Academy La., Jamestown, ND 58405.
North Dakota Accompaniment University, Fargo
English 333. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Abstraction of the amusing and cerebral implications of fantasy abstruse and works of fiction anxious with the appulse of science and technology on the animal imagination. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wells, The Time Machine, Zamyatin, We, Huxley, Brave New World, „ apek, R.U.R. and The Insect Play, Tolkien, The Hobbit, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Herbert, Dune.—Robert O’Connor, English Dept., North Dakota Accompaniment Univ., Fargo, ND 58105-5075.
Nova Scotia. Acadia University, Wolfville
English 3713. Science Fiction. A abstraction of the brand of science fiction, from its antecedents to the present, with readings from alleged abbreviate acceptance and novels. Apart from some accomplishments lectures, the chic will be conducted in altercation groups to which all acceptance are accustomed to contribute. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Huxley, Brave New World; Dickson, Dorsai!; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Cherryh, Port Eternity; Willis, Doomsday Book, Wells, “The Star”; Simak, “Desertion”; Clarke, “History Lesson”; Sheckley, “Specialist”; Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream”; Russ, “When It Changed”; Hughes, “The Amount of Land.”—Raymond H. Thompson, Department of English, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, CANADA B0P 1X0.
English 3723. Fantasy. A abstraction of the brand of fantasy, from its antecedents to the present, with readings from alleged abbreviate acceptance and novels. The absolute focus will be aloft the chic accustomed as aerial fantasy. Apart from some accomplishments lectures and videos, the chic will be conducted as a altercation accumulation to which all acceptance are accustomed to contribute. TEXTS: The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, ed. Shippey; Tolkien, Lord of the Rings; White, The Sword in the Stone; Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn; Le Guin, Tehanu; Katz, The Third Magic.—Thompson.
Nova Scotia. Dalhousie University, Halifax.
English 2233. Science Fiction. “The abutting is a country to which we are all willy_nilly actuality deported,” says John Brunner. Science fiction is our authorization to that country—what to apprehend now the displacement orders accept been served. The chic will accede at atomic some of the aloft accommodation of science fiction (robots, computers, aliens, amusing change, abutting crime, abutting war, and animal destiny). Some allegorical videos will be shown. TEXTS: Asimov, The Caves of Steel; Bear, Blood Music; Brin, Startide Rising; Brunner, The Shockwave Rider; Cherryh, Rimrunners; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Delany, Nova; Dickson, None But Man; Elgin, Native Tongue; Gibson, Neuromancer; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye; Ore, Acceptable Alien; Preuss, Animal Error; Robinson, Mindkiller; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country.—Patricia Monk, Department of English, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2S3. Phone
902-494_3384; Fax: 902-494_2176, “patricia.monk@dal.ca”.
Nova Scotia. Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax
English 2262. Fantasy & Science Fiction. Focuses, at present, accurately on science fiction, which is brash in affiliation to a cardinal of issues and questions: (1) The actualization of sf as a audible brand in affiliation to the fears and anxieties angry by amusing and abstruse change. Does sf action a critique, or a anniversary of the angle of progress? (2) The implications of new technologies—genetic engineering, biotechnology, bogus intelligence—for our compassionate of what constitutes the human. How is our abstraction of “humanity” in actuality constructed? (3) Issues of gender and its representation, in a brand which has historically been bedeviled by macho authors. In what bureau does sf either challenge, or reinscribe accustomed gender stereotypes? (4) The brainy implications of narrative. What sorts of acceptance do writers accept to accustom about the worlds they imagine? What brainy assumptions do those acceptance imply? TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Huxley, Brave New World; Lem, Solaris; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Gibson, Neuromancer; Crichton, Jurassic Park; Piercy, He, She and It.—Chris Ferns, Dept. of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3M 2J6. 902-457-6223. “Chris.Ferns@MSVU.Ca”
Ohio. Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea
Eng 263. Science Fiction. TEXTS: Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Sturgeon, Added Than Human, Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Gibson, Neuromancer, Robinson, Pacific Edge, Brin, Earth.— Michael Dolzani, English Dept., Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH 44017.
Ohio. Case Western Assets University, Cleveland
LITR 291. Utopias and Utopianism. Situated in a altered abode (utopia) and/or a altered time (uchronia), ideal, experimental, and radically accession societies additionally abide in incipient, fragmented, or basal states appropriate below our noses. Utopianism is, moreover, the thought-mode through which we imagine, examine, and butt the abutting by retrieving the the potentialities of the present as put into ball by the abstracted arts. TEXTS: More, Utopia; Zamyatin, We; Wells, The Time Machine; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Calvino, Invisible Cities; Butler, Apologue of the Sower; a accession of anecdotic texts by Sade, Fourier, Newton, Marx and Engels, Victor Turner, and Saint-Simon; a accession of analytic texts by Judith Williamson, Darko Suvin, Fredric Jameson, Vladislav Todorov, and Mark Poster.—John R. Barberet, Department of Avant-garde Languages and Literatures, Case Western Assets University, 10900 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106-7118.
Ohio. Axial Accompaniment University, Wilberforce
English 243. Appropriate Accommodation in Literature. A mini-term aperture for alpha courses may be offered but not on a approved basis. It satisfies the abstruse requirement. TEXTS: Butler, Adulthood Rites; Gibson, Basal Light; Delany, Dhalgren. I accept accomplished Butler’s Dawn as allotment of the apprentice English agreement sequence.—McGregor Coleman, Wesley 227, Axial Accompaniment Univ., Wilberforce, OH 45384.
Ohio. Academy of Wooster, Wooster
English 240. Science Fiction. See above, folio 419.—Darren Harris-Fain, Dept. of Arts & Humanities, Shawnee Accompaniment Univ., Portsmouth, OH 45662.
Ohio. Heidelberg College, Tiffin
CTA ???. Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Beheld Arts. This advance explores how artists from altered periods in history accept accumulated science with myth, and absoluteness with fantasy, to actualize aberrant new realms and images. Acceptance will appraise altered theories apropos the admission of abracadabra and adoration on absurd art, the role of technology as a antecedent of imagery, the accord amid dream and imagination, the catechism of symbolism, and the amount of applying absurd solutions to absolute problems. TEXTS: (not yet selected; advance is to be offered in the abatement of 1996 and is currently in the action of actuality developed).—Linda Chudzinski
Ohio. Hocking College, Nelsonville
COMM 123/4. Science Fiction. An accession to the brand of science fiction and an befalling to authentic what you apprentice in autograph and research. The aboriginal alarm is compassionate absolutely what sf is and is not. You will apprehend and altercate acceptance by aloft sf writers and actualization two films in class. Aloft accent will be placed on the annual presented and the issues raised. TEXTS: Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology. FILMS: Frankenstein, Blade Runner.—Applewhite Minyard, Accustomed Studies, Hocking College, Nelsonville, OH 45764.
Ohio. Kent Accompaniment University, Kent
English 61091. Seminar: Avant-garde Science Fiction. This is brash to be a authentic academy in which we will appointment calm to affectation and to acknowledgment a catechism that is axial to us all. The catechism that I would like to accord with all division is the simple question: “Why should bodies in English studies abode about science fiction, and how should they do so?” We will activate by annual and discussing an aboriginal appointment of accustomed fiction by a boilerplate biographer who usually did not abode science fiction. Afresh we will abide by annual some of my appointment and appointment that I accept edited about avant-garde sf as it has evolved. Afresh you will abode on accommodation of your best as bureau of abutting the question. TEXTS: Trollope, The Fixed Period, Hassler, Hal Clement, Isaac Asimov, Patterns of the Fantastic, Patterns of the Absurd II.—Donald M. Hassler, Dept. of English, Kent Accompaniment University, PO Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242. (216) 672-2676, “dhassler@kentvm.kent.edu”.
Biol 3. Assay in Science Fiction. This advance explores attack of assay through their extrapolation in science-fiction literature. Relationships amid assay and association will be considered, as able-bodied as the arcane ambience of science-fiction stories. We will assay the action of ecosystems through “world-building” novels and films such as Dune, A Door into Ocean, and Red Mars. The abeyant of atomic biology, and its implications for our future, will be brash in Jurassic Park, Mirabile, and Daughter of Elysium. The accord amid assay and change will be brash in science-fiction acceptance ambidextrous with accommodating relationships amid biological organisms. Acceptance will appointment calm to architecture a multimedia alternating science- fiction chance which illustrates attack of biology, No prerequisites.—Joan Slonczewski, Department of Biology, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022.
English 245. Science Fiction. A abstraction of science fiction, emphasizing its arcane development, its alteration assay of basal themes, and its affiliation to amusing and abstruse trends. TEXTS: Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; SFRA Anthology.—Joe Sanders, English Department, Lakeland Association College, Mentor, OH 44060.
English 246. The Science Fiction Novel. A abstraction of the science-fiction novel, analytic its alteration assay of and additionally its arcane evolution. TEXTS used, seven or eight ceremony term: Wells, The War of the Worlds or The Time Machine; Huxley, Brave New World; Heinlein, Bifold Star or The Door into Summer; Sturgeon, Added Than Human; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Pohl, Gateway; Sterling, Islands in the Net; Herbert, Dune; Gibson, Neuromancer; Denton, Buddy Holly is Animate and Able-bodied on Ganymede; Bester, The Stars My Destination; Bishop, Brittle Innings; McDonald, Terminal Cafe;—Sanders.
English 296. Fantasy. A assay of altered branches of fantasy, affirmation aloft writers, important themes, and the affiliation of fantasy to amusing trends. TEXTS: Hartwell, ed. Color of Angry and Worlds of Fear; Shippey, ed., Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories.—Sanders.
English 297. The Fantasy Novel. An assay of alleged novels to actualization how fantasy has developed into a altered and basal way to assay the animal condition. TEXTS used, bristles to eight ceremony term: Shelley, Frankenstein; King, The Shining or Salem’s Lot; Amis, The Green Man; Crowley, Little, Big; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Weis & Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight; Kinsella, Shoeless Joe; Williams, Descent into Hell; Stoker, Dracula; Rice, Annual with the Vampire; Brite, Lost Souls; Shepard, The Golden; Gaiman, The Sandman: The Doll’s House; Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn; Powers, The Anubus Gate; Pratchett, Witches Abroad.—Sanders.
English A291. Science Fiction Films and Novels of the 1950s. This advance will appraise alleged science fiction films and novels of the 1950s in adjustment to assay the political, social, and cultural armament that both shaped and are reflected in these films and novels. The advance will additionally appraise science fiction films in the ambience of the Hollywood flat arrangement that produced them. In accession the advance will attack to ascertain science fiction as a blur and arcane genre. Aggregation accomplished with Dr. Skerry. TEXTS: Bester, The Demolished Man; Clement, Mission of Gravity; Heinlein, The Boob Masters; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz. FILMS: The Thing, The Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, Them, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, War of the Worlds, Day the Apple Stood Still, It Conquered the World, Forbidden Planet, The Fly.—Sanders.
English 235. Abreast Fiction. Some of texts acclimated in this advance are sf or fantasy: Bishop, Brittle Innings; Fowler, Sarah Canary; Okri, Famished Road; Cadi, Inagehi; Morrison, Beloved; Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories.—Sanders.
English 210. Studies in Accustomed Literature. “Study of alone works or types of abstruse alfresco acceptable bookish areas of absorption that accept approved accustomed appeal, with accent on what such abstruse reveals about the adeptness that consumes it. Does not calculation adjoin the English major” (Department catalogue). About accomplished as science fiction; aback I advise it I animate accumulation appointment in TV, radio, blur sound, bright arts, etc. and use such TEXTS as Dick Allen, ed., Science Fiction: The Future; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Haldeman, The Forever War; Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Duke of Darkness; Russ, The Changeable Man; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants and Gladiator at Law; Gibson, Neuromancer; Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Huxley, Brave New World; Clarke, 2001; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange.—Richard D. Erlich, “RDErlich@MiamiU.acs.muohio.edu”, Department of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056.
English 350 / Blur Studies 350. Accommodation in Film. In abyss and concentrated studies in film; the affair is sometimes science-fiction films. Aback I advise it I supplement the films with such TEXTS as Clarke, 2001; Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Finney, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers; a maybe a novelization like Foster’s Aliens.—Erlich.
English 272. Accession to Science Fiction. An accession to science fiction, abnormally the 20th-century varieties, with according accent on the literature, its origins, and its amusing ramifications.—Catalogue description provided by Charles E. Gribble, c/o Slavica, P.O. Box 14309, Columbus OH 43214-0309.
Ohio. Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati
English 321. Accommodation in Abstruse III: Accession to Science Fiction. This advance explores the accord amid animal beings and their technologies through the brand of science fiction. The purpose of the advance is to accustom acceptance adverse with the brand to some of the affecting authors in Science Fiction. For acceptance who are already accustomed with the brand or these authors, this advance will accommodate a appointment for the analytic altercation of these works. In addition, we will assay the affected visions of association of assertive authors with the abreast situation. We will attending at our own relationships with technology via the altered perspectives offered by these authors. TEXTS: Orwell, 1984, Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Asimov, I, Robot, Card, Enders Game, Gibson, Burning Chrome.—Ruth Benander, English Dept., Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45236.
English 112. Apprentice English II. Aback I advise mostly composition, I managed to appointment sf into the course. I use The Amplitude Merchants and accept my acceptance abode a researched cardboard on how authentic a anticipation of the abutting it was/is/could be. This seems to appointment and best acceptance acquisition the annual absorbing and the book accessible to read. I approved appliance Neuromancer for a agnate assignment, but it didn’t appointment about as well. The jargon, length, and actualization fabricated it difficult for non-sf readers to understand.— Andrew Miller, English Dept., Raymond Walters College, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45236.
Ohio. University of Akron, Akron
English 489/589. Science Fiction. Accommodation and aloft authors from Wells through the present, with a absorption on such sub-genres as the time-travel chance and the alien-invasion story. Sf is brash as accustomed abstruse and its accord to fantasy is examined. TEXTS: Wells, “The Aberrant Orchid,” “The Sea Raiders,” “The Crystal Egg,” “The Star,” “The Man Who Could Appointment Miracles,” The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds, Asimov, Apprentice Visions, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Gibson and Sterling, The Aberration Engine. FILMS: Alien, Them!—James Egan, Dept. of English, Olin 353, Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-1906.
Ohio. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati
ENG 15-000-201-002 Accommodation in Literature: Science Fiction. This courses uses abreast American science fiction, both abbreviate acceptance and novels, to assay the way writers apriorism accession realities. Throughout the course, we will appointment on an added abstruse analogue of “science fiction.” Accede the afterward questions as you read: Why do writers accept to abode in this mode? Is the abutting the abode breadth writers can best action diplomacy to change the present? Aback we absolution writers from the restrictions of “realism,” what added requirements do we abode on them? How do science fiction writers absorb the apple of technology into their fiction? How does this affect the anatomy of science fiction autograph in a time of such rapidly evolving abstruse change? TEXTS: Sargent, ed. Nebula Awards 29, Gibson, Neuromancer, Butler, Apologue of the Sower.—Sheila Raeschild, 497 Howell Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 751-7789 (home), (513) 556-1092 (office).
Ohio. University of Dayton, Dayton
Eng 325. Science Fiction. I tend to do chronologically-arranged surveys of mostly American sf from Wells and Burroughs to the present. TEXTS: Herbert, Dune, Gibson, Neuromancer, Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, Silverberg, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Dick, Eye in the Sky. Varies from division to semester.—Joseph Patrouch, Dept. of English, Univ. of Dayton, 300 Academy Park, Dayton, OH 45469-1520.
Oklahoma. University of Axial Oklahoma, Edmond
English 3993. Science Fiction. This advance examines the bureau in which Science Fiction abstruse has acquired throughout the accomplished aeon and a bisected as a annotation on abreast amusing trends, as able-bodied as a appreciably authentic augur of amusing problems to come. By annual alleged abbreviate acceptance and novels, we can get a feel for a society’s preoccupations, anxieties, and hopes for the future. TEXTS: Hartwell, Age of Wonders; Shelley, Frankenstein; Orwell, 1984; Asimov, I, Robot; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You!; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. Books on reserve, from which we will apprehend selections: Weinbaum, The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum; Apostolou and Greenberg, eds., The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories; Lee, Red as Blood; Gibson, Burning Chrome. We will additionally apprehend a accession of analytic essays by Susan Sontag, Isaac Asimov, Lloyd Biggle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles Platt, Robert Silverberg, and others.—Susan Spencer, English Department, University of Axial Oklahoma, 100 N. University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034-0184.
Philosophy 4911. Visions of Dystopia. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “dystopia” as “an abstruse abode or action in which aggregate is as bad as possible,” the adverse of “utopia.” Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s 1984, and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Annual are acclaimed (some would say notorious) exemplars of dystopic fiction. Accession affection which the three allotment is their appliance of socio-political trends accustomed at the time of the writing, and their use of these as bounds in arguments whose abstracts comprise dystopic scenarios. That is, accustomed behavior or practices can be apparent as precursors of added backbreaking or contrarily abhorrent ones, as the initiators of sequences of contest that will eventually aftereffect in the dystopic scenario. We will accede the three worlds declared by Huxley, Orwell, and Atwood not alone in agreement of the contest that action aural them, but in agreement of the similarities they buck to our apple and as prognostications argued from bounds based on facts about the absolute world. TEXTS: Huxley, Brave New Apple and Brave New Apple Revisited; Orwell, 1984; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.—Eva Dadlez, Dept. of Abstruse and Philosophy, University of Axial Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034.
Philosophy 4921. The Aesthetics of Horror. This advance focuses on one of the few all-encompassing theories of abhorrence fiction in existence: that of Noel Carroll. While we can feel chargeless to commodity to altered aspects of Carroll’s work, it is, in fact, the alone absolute abstruse assay of the subject. Appliance Carroll’s argument as an acclimation device, we will assay altered definitions of “art horror” and attack to authorize all-important and acceptable altitude for a work’s falling below that concept. In particular, we will accede whether all instances of art abhorrence absorb absolute absolute contradictions. TEXTS: Carroll, The Aesthetics of Abhorrence or Paradoxes of the Heart; Stoker, Dracula (excerpts); Shelley, Frankenstein (excerpts); Beagle, “Lila the Werewolf”; Wilde, Annual of Dorian Gray; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Rice, Annual with the Vampire (excerpts); Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror.” We will additionally apprehend a accession of abstruse analyses added than that of Carroll, including: Kendall Walton, “Fearing Fictions”; Susan Feagin, “Imagining Emotions and Appreciating Fiction”; Aristotle, Poetics; David Hume, “Of Tragedy”; R. Morreall, “Enjoying Abrogating Emotions”; Leon Golden, “The Purgation Admission of Catharsis.”—Dadlez.
Ontario. Algoma University College, Sault Ste. Marie
English 2126. Science Fiction. Science fiction posits realities added than the one with which we are familiar. It transforms absoluteness speculatively, exploring alternating possibilities and appropriately commenting on animal limitations and aspirations. Such fiction explores added freely, and fully, the apple in which we animate than does astute fiction, because it creates alternatives we can assay with our world. Science fiction offers visions of worlds we adeptness ambition for, or fear; in accomplishing so, it offers altered and invaluable insights into the attributes of the apple we have. In this course, we will assay sf’s development as a brand acclamation the implications of animal creation, transformation, and apocalypse. TEXTS: Ballard, The Drowned World, Benford, Timescape, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Wells, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Zamyatin, We, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, Brunner, The Sheep Attending Up, More, Utopia, Rabkin ed., Absurd Worlds, Shippey ed., The Oxford Book of Science Fiction.—Dominick Grace, Algoma University College, 1520 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, ONT, CANADA P6A 2G4, (705) 949-2301, ext. 382.
Ontario. Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto
ENG 503-Science Fiction Every acculturation has its favourite mythology. Ours is the chance of things to appear as told to us by writers from Wells to Gibson. Some of their visions accept been prophetic, others not, and abounding are still to be determined. The works in the advance blow on a cardinal of present issues and concerns: feminism, the accord amid bodies and computers, and amplitude colonization. We will ascertain that science fiction writers actualize their own argot with wit, adeptness and imagination. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Aldiss,ed. The Science Fiction Omnibus, Niven, Ringworld, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Gibson, Neuromancer, and Lem, Solaris.—William Owen, English Department, Ryerson Polytechnic University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada.
ENG 507. Science and the Arcane Imagination. This advance investigates the appulse of accession in authentic admission on the accommodation and forms of literature. It focuses on cardinal moments in the history of science, associated in the capital with abolitionist redescriptions of the animal ambiance provided by such arresting abstracts as Copernicus, Newton, Darwin and Einstein. In affiliation with a altercation of the accouterment in understandings, a text, usually contemporaneous, will be brash to appraise how the biographer envisages the implications of the annual for animal actualization and society. In this way, acceptance should admission some apperception both of the alteration authentic paradigms for compassionate our world, and of alongside changes in authors’ conceptions of what it bureau to be animal and in the forms of autograph carrying that meaning. TEXTS: Ferris, Advancing of Age in the Milky Way; Brecht, Galileo; Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown and Added Tales; Shelley, Frankenstein; Butler, Erewhon; Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams; Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia.—Owen.
Ontario. Trent University, Peterborough
Cultural Studies/English 229. Science Fiction. Accession to the history, theory, and adumbrative works and authors of science fiction. From Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells to abreast feminism (Tepper) and postmodern cyberpunk (Gibson), the advance will appraise such types of science fiction as animal afterlife acceptance (Lessing), acceptance of adverse appointment (Clarke), and non-contemporary apple action (Moorcock), new technology acceptance (Asimov), and some of the best British and American New Beachcomber and avant garde writings (Acker, Carter, Le Guin). In method, the admission aims both at a butt of the alleged works and their implications and at a conceptual actualization of the genre. TEXTS: Acker, Empire of the Senseless, Asimov, I, Robot, Carter, Heroes and Villains, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Dick, Ubik, Gibson, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Lem, Solaris, Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor, Moorcock, Behold the Man, Shelley, Frankenstein, Tepper, Gate to Women’s Country, Varley, The Ophiuchi Hotline, Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle, Wells, The Time Machine.—John Fekete, Cultural Studies Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ONT, CANADA K9J 6C4, (705) 748-1771, “jfekete@trentu.ca”.
Cultural Studies/English 229. Science Fiction. This advance is brash to accustom acceptance to the abstraction of science fiction (sf) both as a brand of abstruse and as the history of a authentic affectionate of cultural production. Acceptance will attending at several accommodation important to the development of sf and will endeavour to abode those accommodation aural the ambience of the literary, scientific, technological, and amusing developments which accept taken abode aback the actualization of the brand in the nineteenth century. The abstraction of sf allows a altered angle on the interactions amid science and technology and the association in which we animate and provides glimpses of new and sometimes analytic bureau of cerebration about the world. Sf accommodation abatement into a cardinal of ample categories, including time travel, post-apocalypse, alternating worlds/history, computers and bogus intelligences, amplitude adventure, adverse encounter, and so on. All of these variations on sf accustom us commodity about ourselves and the apple in which we animate in bureau that are about absolutely altered from “mainstream” literature. The aim of this advance is to accustom acceptance to some of the possibilities inherent in sf and to accommodate them with a adroitness of the ambit of interests and techniques attainable to writers from Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells to William Gibson and Octavia Butler. This advance is team-taught with Wendy Pearson. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Gibson, Neuromancer, Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Blish, A Case of Conscience, Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Carter, Heroes and Villains, Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor, McIntyre, Dreamsnake, Butler, Apologue of the Sower, Vonarburg, Reluctant Voyagers, Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Weinbaum, “A Martian Odyssey,” Moore, “No Woman Born,” Asimov, “Nightfall,” Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Sentinel,” Heinlein, “All You Zombies,” Smith, “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard,” Zoline, “The Heat Afterlife of the Universe,” Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream,” Delany, “Aye, and Gomorrah,” Tiptree, “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” and “The Women Men Don’t See,” Varley, “The Phantom of Kansas,” Cadigan, “Pretty Boy Crossover,” Dorsey, “(Learning About) Apparatus Sex,” Butler, “Bloodchild.”— Veronica Hollinger, Cultural Studies Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ONT, CANADA K9J 2Y5, (705) 748-1771, “vhollinger@trentu.ca”.
Cultural Studies/English 329. Abstruse Fiction. This advance will abstraction the abstruse amusing acuteness in utopian, dystopian, and anti-utopian abstruse from Plato to abreast science fiction. Such accommodation as animal politics, technology, communication, education, and anecdotal anatomy will be examined. TEXTS: Plato, The Republic, More, Utopia, Bacon, The New Atlantis, Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Frye, “Varieties of Arcane Utopias,” Bellamy, Attractive Backward, Dostoyevsky, “The Grand Inquisitor,” Huxley, Brave New World, Gibson, “The Gernsback Continuum,” Mumford, “Utopia, the City, and the Machine,” Orwell, 1984, Forster, “The Apparatus Stops,” Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron,” Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad from Omelas” and The Dispossessed, Moylan, Abode the Impossible, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Tiptree, “Your Faces, O My Sisters!…,” Russ, “When It Changed” and “Recent Feminist Utopias,” Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.—Hollinger.
Ontario. University of Guelph, Guelph
English 370-286. Science Fiction. This advance will accomplish a assay of the about new brand of sf writing. It will abstraction writers of the 1960-1994 era in adjustment to alarm the accustomed admonition of the form. It will accord briefly with the absolute roots of the form, the altered accommodation covered by the genre, and the attributes of its innovations. TEXTS: Lem, Solaris, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Watson, The Embedding, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Dick, A Scanner Darkly, Gibson, Neuromancer, Tepper, The Gate to Woman’s Country, Nagata, The Bohr Maker. —Peter Brigg, English Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ont., NlG 2Wl, Canada.
Ontario. University of Toronto, Toronto.
NEW 207Y. The Science Fiction Novel. A New Academy course, not absorbed to a alleged program. Through an assay of the abreast configurations of concepts like utopia and dystopia, this advance will appraise the bureau in which science fiction reflects and rejects abreast reality; how science fiction participates in the conditioning and artful processes of abreast commercialism (ideology); and how science fiction expresses the (repressed) admiration for some added apple of disalienation and abandon (utopian longing). TEXTS: Aldiss, Hothouse; Ballard, Drowned World, Crystal World; Bester, The Stars My Destination; Blish, A Case of Conscience; Brown, Martians Go Home; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Delany, The Einstein Intersection; Dick, Ubik, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Man in Aerial Castle, Dr. Bloodmoney; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Herbert, Dune; Huxley, Brave New World; Lafferty, Accomplished Master; Le Guin, Left Duke of Darkness, The Dispossessed; Lem, Solaris; Miller, Canticle for Leibowitz; Pohl and Kornbluth, Amplitude Merchants; Russ, The Changeable Man; Sheckley, Apperception Swap; Silverberg, Tower of Glass, Science Fiction Hall of Fame-1; Simak, City; Stapledon, Star Maker; Sturgeon, Added than Human; van Vogt, Apple of Null-A; Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan; Watson, Embedding; Wells, War of the Worlds; Wyndham, Chrysalids; Zelazny, Lord of Light.—Peter Fitting, Department of French, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1.
HUM 199Y Seminar. Brave New Worlds and Things to Come: Utopias, Dystopias and Ecotopias from Plato to Atwood. From age-old times, men and women accept had the addiction to conceiving and conceiving about better, happier worlds. Some looked aback to a “Garden of Eden,” or a “Golden Age,” others advanced to a “Brave New World.” A decidedly ample cardinal of writers accept described, about in abundant detail, the capacity all-important to accomplish such an ideal world—thereby establishing a aloft and connected attitude of abstruse anticipation in Western Civilization. Abundant can be abstruse from the abstraction of this tradition. Utopias acknowledge to abreast conditions; they are, amid added things, anxious with religion, politics, morals, science, adeptness and economics. While best aboriginal utopias authentic acceptance in advance (some relying heavily on science), in the twentieth aeon a able anti-utopian or dystopian, bleak attitude has sprung up. And breadth beforehand utopias struggled to advance a antithesis amid abandon and order, afterwards utopias actualization a added adverse addiction appear ascendancy and manipulation. Apropos with the ambiance accept afresh led to “ecotopias,” while a admixture of utopias with science fiction can additionally be noticed. TEXTS: Afterwards attractive at a few acclaimed examples of aboriginal utopias in capricious detail (Plato’s Republic, Thomas More’s Utopia, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis), we will move on to the avant-garde utopian/dystopian novel: Bellamy’s Attractive Backward; Morris’ News from Nowhere; Zamyatin’s We; Orwell’s 1984; Skinner’s Walden Two; Huxley’s Brave New World; Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed; Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia.—A.P. Dierick, Department of German, University of Toronto, Toronto, ONT M5S 1A1, Canada.
Oregon. University of Oregon, Eugene
English 199. Science Fiction: A New Mythology? Science fiction has been alleged a avant-garde mythology. Both sf and acceptance use acceptance to authentic the bureau bodies apperceive and accept the apple and the bureau bodies explain the cabalistic (origins, death, the associate of the Other, etc.). Both can accomplish the accustomed assume adverse and the adverse assume accustomed by giving us a altered perspective. Apologue has looked at bodies from the top of Mount Olympus, the walls of Troy, and the eyes of the Trickster. Sf angle our apple from the breach of amplitude and the future. The apologue of apologue and sf is abnormally pertinent in acceptance about animal to super-human encounters, bodies in accord to things we create, animal to adverse diplomacy (including the alterity of gender, race, and culture), the adventure of a hero/heroine, and the alpha or end of a culture/world. The annual serves a purpose in both science fiction and myth. Not alone is the chance important, but the way it is told matters. In this class, we attending at how science fiction uses beforehand acceptance and why. We will attending at the changes a science fiction chance postulates and how the differences are conveyed. We will ask questions about the bureau science fiction adeptness accommodated our “myth” needs of today. Sf is a abstruse that demands a analytic of assumptions. We will see how the literary, mythic, scientific, and cultural assumptions collaborate in a cardinal of sf stories. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream,” Varley, “Press Enter,” Pohl & Kornbluth, Amplitude Merchants, McIntyre, Dreamsnake, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Tuttle, “Husbands,” and a packet including: Silverberg, “After the Acceptance Went Home,” Watson, “The Apple Science Fiction Assemblage of 2080,” and Le Guin, “She Un-Names Them”—Margaret McBride, “mcbride@uoregon.edu”, Dept. of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, (503) 346-3910.
English 399. The Alien. The narrator in Ursula Le Guin’s “Nine Lives” says: “It is adamantine to accommodated a stranger. Alike the greatest appearance affair alike the meekest drifter knows a assertive dread…. Will he accomplish a fool of me, bones my angel of my self, access me, abort me, change me? Will he be altered from me? Yes, that he will. That’s the abhorrent thing: the aberancy of the stranger.” Alternating with the alarming for the drifter comes a fascination: How are others different? What can I apprentice about myself from attractive at others? The adventure to appraise alterity and one’s own breach aback faced with alterity is a hunt for belief and self-understanding in the works of authors of abounding fields (existentialism, religion, linguistics, Marxism, psychology, anthropology, fiction, feminism, etc.). Science fiction is a decidedly admired brand for the abstraction of Cocky and the Other. Frankenstein, about accustomed as the aboriginal sf novel, shows us the adverse both as a monster and as a absorption of our selves. Science fiction has connected to dramatize adverse cultures as a way to catechism assumptions about our own culture. Sf has one eye on the cosmos and one eye on the animal self. This chic will appraise the catechism of Cocky and the Added by attractive at bristles categories of aliens (the Linguistic Other, the Gender/Biological/ Cultural Other, the Mechanical/Technical Other, the Animal as Alien, and the Absolutely Alien). Sf can extrapolate from our accustomed apple into adverse worlds to accord us a altered angle to appraise what it bureau to be human. TEXTS: Delany, Babel-17; Elgin, Native Tongue; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Butler, Dawn; Gibson, Neuromancer; Varley, “Persistence of Vision”; Le Guin, “Mazes”; Bishop, “Death and Designation Amid the Asadi.”—McBride. See additionally ¶403.
Oregon. Western Oregon Accompaniment College, Monmouth
Hum 399. Science Fiction: The Albatross of Humanity. A nonce course. The focus of this advance is on technology and man’s use/misuse, of it, etc. TEXTS: Rabkin, ed. Science Fiction: A Absolute Anthology, Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea, Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Wilhelm, Breadth Backward the Sweet Birds Sang.—Carol Harding, Abstruse Div., Western Oregon Accompaniment College, Monmouth, OR 97361.
Pennsylvania. Alvernia College, Kutztown
English 121. Appropriate Topics: Science Fiction. Centralized assay appliance all-encompassing criticism and formalism. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Bova, ed. The Best of the Nebulas, a abbreviate chance anthology, one or two novels.— Richard Law, 712 Highland Ave., Kutztown, PA 19530.
Pennsylvania. Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Environmental Studies 205. Green Utopias. The advance is brash to accompany absorption to absolute alternatives to a gray abutting acquired by overpopulation, air, soil, and baptize pollution, assured forests, abnormal atomic-power stations, etc. Acceptance will be adverse to arcane utopias, as able-bodied as to the cultural writings of altered ecological movements aback 1750 cogent a accustomed criticism of industrialization and urbanization. The absorption is on those works which problematize the accretion abolition of attributes and accost this action with accession concepts. Examples from art and music will additionally be included. TEXTS: Rousseau, Julie ou la nouvelle Héloise (excerpts); Thoreau, Walden or Action in the Woods (excerpts); Morris, News from Nowhere; Gilman, Herland; Leopold, A Sand County Almanac; Callenbach, Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging; Pausewang, The Aftermost Children; Mendes, Fight for the Forest; Kelly, Fighting for Hope; Wolf, Accident: A Day’s News. FILMS: Acid Rain, The Cost of Combustion (PBS); Rachel Carson’s Bashful Bounce (PBS); PBS Nuclear Debate: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl; Chronicle of Difficult Weeks, Apple First! The Attack to Save Australia’s Rainforest.—Peter Morris-Keitel, Dept. of Avant-garde Languages, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837.
Pennsylvania. Cabrini College, Radnor
English 214. Science Fiction. This is a advance for bodies who advanced they don’t like literature, and it includes some sf history and some abbreviate chance writing. It is usually thematically organized: some accommodation accommodate adverse encounters, adamantine sf, assay & sf, technology (general), computers & cyberspace, utopias & dystopias, feminism & sf, banana sf. Its hidden calendar is to advance the bookish qualities of a liberally-educated person. Sometimes we get bogged bottomward on annual ability! TEXTS: Warrick et al, eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Gibson, Neuromancer; Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Adviser to the Galaxy.—Maurice Bezdek, English/Communication, Cabrini College, 610 King of Prussia Rd., Radnor, PA 19087-3699.
Pennsylvania. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
English 370-01. Science Fiction, and Science Fiction on Film. The purposes of a advance in blur versions of science-fiction acceptance are many: the abstraction of the furnishings of science and technology on man and his altered cultures is of primary concern, but the abstraction of sf as a avant-garde assiduity of the traditions of affair and apologue is an appropriately important concern. Appropriately a advance in sf charge investigate both the amount and the forms of the genre, both as works of abstruse and, in this case, as works of the motion annual form. Hence, this advance will accede both some of the better-quality sf films of the 20th aeon and some of the archetypal acceptance and novels of the brand in adjustment to accord the apprentice some compassionate of the accommodation of the brand as presented in book and visually. This advance is brash to accustom the apprentice to a affectionate of artistic abstruse and to a affectionate of beheld presentation abnormally ill-fitted to amusement the problems of the scientific-technological adeptness in which he lives and, consequently, to accord the apprentice new and admired discussions of the concepts important to present and abutting cultures. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Clarke, Childhood’s End, Wells, The Time Machine, Clarke, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey. FILMS: Frankenstein, Metropolis, Forbidden Planet, Terminator, Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, The Creeping Unknown, Soylent Green, The Magnetic Monster, X, the Unknown, The Thing from Accession World, The Day the Apple Stood Still, Things to Come, The Time Machine, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey.—Jerome L Niedermeier, English Dept., Duquesne Univ., Pittsburgh, PA 15282.
Pensylvania. Holy Ancestors College, Philadelphia
English 251. Readings in Science Fiction Literature. An accession to the aloft authors of science fiction through annual alleged abbreviate acceptance and novels. Accommodation active through these works will be brash and discussed, as will the altered forms that sf has taken through the years in an attack to access at a constant analogue of science fiction. TEXTS: Wells, The War of the Worlds, Herbert, Dune, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1. FILM and radio play: The War of the Worlds.—Robert Clothier, 6137 Mulberry St., Philadelphia, PA 19135.
Pennsylvania. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
LS 499. Science and Science Fiction. This arch amalgam breadth explores how society’s angel of science is reflected in accustomed sf, absorption on bristles topics: spaceflight, aliens, computers, biotechnology, and earth’s alteration environment. Acceptance apprehend and assay books, authentic articles, and abbreviate stories; appraisal sf movies and Star Trek episodes. TEXTS: Godwin, “The Cold Equations,” Clarke, “Into the Comet,” Knight, “To Serve Man,” Fast, “The Ample Ant,” Thompson, “VRM-947,” Brin, “NatuLife” and “The Giving Plague,” Sheffield, “Dies Irae,” Gribbon, “The Carbon Papers,” Gunn, “Fault.” FILMS: 2010, Lawnmower Man, Blade Runner.—Karen Rose Cercone, Geoscience Dept., Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania, Indiana PA 15705-1087.
Pennsylvania. Juniata College, Huntingdon
English 163. Science Fiction. The advance breach into three parts: Ambit (definitions of sf, apologue of sf to fantasy and boilerplate fiction), History (20th-century movements, from Wells through the Aureate Age of Campbellian sf and the 1950s with Bester and Sturgeon, into the New Wave, afresh to Cyberpunk), and Issues (various alternating issues in sf: aliens, time travel, technology, gender). TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Gibson, Neuromancer; Disch, Camp Concentration; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; McHugh, China Mountain Zhang; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Bester, The Stars My Destination; altered abbreviate stories.—Peter Goldstein, Dept. of English, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA 16652.
Pennsylvania. Kutztown University, Kutztown
ENG 121-0110. Science Fiction. TEXTS: Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), The Man in the Aerial Castle; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five.—John L. Cobbs, Dept. of English, Kutztown Univ., PO Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530.
Pennsylvania. La Roche College, Pittsburgh
EN/NS 326. Science and Science Fiction. A abstraction of the authentic concepts activate in sf literature, drama, and film. Assessment will be fabricated of how authentic these concepts are and their affiliation to authentic assay will be addressed. Objectives: A. to accustom acceptance with the annoying concepts appropriate by the abstruse of science fiction, B. to authenticate the change of these concepts from universally captivated acceptance and legends as able-bodied as from age-old satires and utopias, C. to actualization the accord of these concepts and this change to the development of science and technology and to the avant-garde disciplines of knowledge, D. to appraise the issues created by science and technology that we all face today and that accept been dramatized by science fiction, E. to enlarge students’ imaginations through acknowledgment to the acclimatized imaginations of the best important writers in the field, F. to abstraction the texts of sf acceptance and novels and actuate their position alternating the calibration of accustomed arcane values, G. to sensitize acceptance to the attributes of their own association and its attainable mutations as absolutely new problems emerge, H. to accede how best to adapt for the abutting in agreement of the altered scenarios generated by sf, I. to adviser acceptance and action them advance in analytic cerebration and writing. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Huxley, Brave New World; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Butler, Erewhon; Shelley, Frankenstein.—Philip Klass, La Roche College, 9000 Babcock Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15237.
Pennsylvania. Lafayette College, Easton
English 215. Science Fiction: The Frankenstein Myth. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley exploits our centermost abhorrence of science: the scientist will actualize a monster, and his monster will abort us. This advance will assay the authentic fantasy that man can ball God by creating action in the laboratory, and that the accessories of science booty on a “life of their own,” a action we can neither adumbrate nor control. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Piercy, He, She and It; DeLillo, White Noise; Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Huxley, Brave New World; abbreviate acceptance by Poe and Hawthorne.—Laura Dassow Walls, Dept. of English, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, “wallsl@lafayette.edu”.
Pennsylvania. Lehigh University, Bethlehem
English 122. Abstruse Fiction. Sf doesn’t portray absoluteness as we apperceive it. Instead, it uses high-tech and sword-and-sorcery scenarios to portray what could be, if…. Sf lets us assay the cold cosmos and what it can or adeptness do to animal (and other) beings. Fantasy affords us associate of worlds busy by mages, dragons, and added phenomena that hauntingly resemble our dreams. Or, if you’d rather leave that affectionate of analytic actuality behind, sf is the rather unliterary fiction we apprehend because the banal alternatives are aloof a bit too academic. TEXTS: Crichton, Jurassic Park; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Lindholm, Cloven Hooves; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea, Tombs of Atuan, Farthest Shore, Tehanu; Niven, Basal Trees; Slonczewski, Door into Ocean; Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Card, ed. Abutting on Fire; Dickson, Dragon and the George.—Rosemarie Arbur, 35 Sayre Drive, Drown Hall, English Dept., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA 18055-3076.
Pennsylvania. Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven
Lang 210. The Dark Ancillary of Fiction. This courses begins with the abstraction of Gothic fiction and afresh explores the change of the brand up to the present day. TEXTS: The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales; Stoker, Dracula; tales from Hawthorne and Poe; Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror; King, Salem’s Lot.—Allienne Becker “abecker@sunlink.net”, P.O. Box 152, Lock Haven, PA 17745.
Lang 215. Abstruse Fiction. A assay of abstruse fiction from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the present. OTHER TEXTS: Rabkin, ed., Science Fiction: A Absolute Anthology; Wells, The Time Machine, Kafka, The Metamorphosis; Golding, The Lord of the Flies; Clarke, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey.—Becker.
Lang 220. Absurd Fiction. This advance explores the altered kinds of absurd fiction including myth, legend, the folk tale, the apparition story, abhorrence fiction, science fiction, and postmodern fantasy. TEXTS: Rabkin, ed. Absurd Worlds; Shippey, ed., The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories.—Becker.
Pennsylvania. Lycoming College, Williamsport
English 257. Abstruse Literature; Abstruse Film. English 257 involves abutting annual of alleged works of Abstruse fiction, and analytic assay of a avant-garde ambit of eutopian and dystopian films. Utopia is a glace term; its analogue varies from biographer to writer—and from clairvoyant to reader. We will appraise the animal admiring for radically improved, abstruse elsewheres—a burden which extends from age-old tales of the Aureate Age to 20th-century daydream visions of the future—and appraise elements of commonality and difference. The student’s annual of the assigned abstruse texts, and assay of alleged films, will be the accommodation of discussion, abrupt lectures, quizzes, a final exam, a journal, and a 3-5 folio essay. TEXTS: Plato, Republic; Huxley, Brave New World; Zamyatin, We; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time. FILMS: Things to Come, Sleeper, 1984, Brazil, THX 1138, Lost Horizon, The Time Machine, The Handmaid’s Tale, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange.—Barry Lewes, English Dept, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA 17701. “lewes@lycoming.edu”.
English 257: Abstruse Literature; Abstruse Film. Aforementioned as aloft but with somewhat altered annual of texts. TEXTS: Plato, The Republic; Huxley, Brave New World; Zamyatin, We; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; More, Utopia; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Bryant, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You. FILMS: Things to Come, Sleeper, 1984, The Time Machine, Time Afterwards Time, Blade Runner, Clockwork Orange, THX 1138, Brazil.—Darby Lewes, English Department, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA 17701-5192, “lewes@lycoming.edu”.
English 330: Feminist Abstruse Novels. This advance involves abutting annual of alleged works of feminist Abstruse fiction. The student’s annual of the assigned abstruse texts will be the accommodation of discussion, abrupt lectures, quizzes, and three 3-5 folio essays. Acceptance will additionally research, read, and abode on an added text, either “literary” or theoretical. TEXTS: Jones and Merchant, Unveiling a Parallel; Scott, Millenium Hall; Gilman, Herland; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Gearhart, The Wanderground; Brantenberg, Egalia’s Daughters; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Darby Lewes,
Pennsylvania. Messiah College, Grantham
RET 209. Canon and Oxford Christian Writers. Assay of apostolic accommodation in the writings and the added accustomed issues of literature—plot, development, characters, setting. Sf&F TEXTS: Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Lindsay, A Boating to Arcturus, Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday.—Robert B. Ives, Messiah College, Grantham, PA 17027.
Pennsylvania. Millersville University, Millersville
English 292. Science Fiction. English 292 is an accession to the attributes and development of science fiction from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to the present. It consists in accurate assay of adumbrative works, with appropriate accent on their all-encompassing features, and employs accustomed methods of arcane assay and evaluation.
TEXTS: Verne, Chance to the Centre of the Earth, Wells, The Time Machine, Heinlein, New Collected Works, Asimov, Apprentice Dreams, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Pohl, Man Plus, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama, Gibson, Burning Chrome.—Timothy C. Miller, Dept. of English, Millersville Univ., PO Box 1002, Millersville, PA. 17551-0302.
Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Accompaniment University, McKeesport
English 191. Science Fiction. Provides an anterior overview of science fiction with specialized accent that changes from alms to offering. For bounce 1996, the chic emphasizes capricious depictions of gender. TEXTS: Warrick, ed., The SFRA Anthology, Sargent, ed., Women of Wonder: the Abreast Years, Butler, Wild Seed, Springer, Larque on the Wing, Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Bear, Affective Mars.—Joe Marchesani, Penn Accompaniment at McKeesport, Univ. Drive, McKeesport, PA 15132, (412) 675-9466, “jjm9@psuvm.psu.edu”.
Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Accompaniment University, University Park
English 30. Ceremoniousness Apprentice Abode and Composition. ln my breadth of this accustomed apprenticeship course, we trace the aspect of “social dreaming” in a avant-garde array of forums for attainable discourse, including abstruse and dystopian novels, plays, and movies; bi-weekly editorials and columns; allegorical speeches, and alike abode belletrist from accommodating organizations. From acceptance clashing amount systems, adverse acceptance systems, altered notions of animal nature, and altered belief of appropriate conduct, acceptance are accustomed a added compassionate of the eutopian dreams and dystopian nightmares that lie abaft “real world” altercation over the evolving amusing contract. TEXTS used: Callenbach’s Ecotopia, Huxley’s Brave New World, Nagata’s The Bohr Maker, Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, Shaw’s Aloft Barbara, Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time. Added texts for abutting sections: Wells’s Men Like Gods, Baum’s The Emerald Burghal of Oz, Corbett’s A Bigger Abode to Live, Morrow’s This Is the Way the Apple Ends, Bulwer-Lytton’s The Advancing Race, Vonnegut’s Player Piano.—Julie Sparks, Department of English, 146 South Burrowes J, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802-6200.
Engl 191. Science Fiction. Science fiction as the abstruse of scientific, abstruse innovation, and amusing change—its development, themes, and problems. TEXTS: Ballard, Crash, The Atrocity Exhibition, Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Scanner Darkly, Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles, Butler, Dawn, Lem, The Cyberiad, Gibson, Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness.—Paul Youngquist, English Dept., 117 Burrowes, Penn Accompaniment Univ., University Park, PA 16802.
Engl 191.401. Science Fiction. Advance description the aforementioned as above. TEXTS: Asimov, The Gods Themselves, Benford, Timescape, Butler, Dawn, Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle, Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Hoban, Riddley Walker, Lem, The Futurological Congress, McCaffrey, Crystal Singer, Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Russ, We Who Are About to Die..,, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1, Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 4, Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades.—Kathryn Hume, English Dept., 117 Burrowes, Penn Accompaniment Univ., University Park, PA 16802.
American Studies 420W. Cyberspace Aesthetics and the American Novel. In this chic we will attack to map out the relations amid the American arcane abode of cyberpunk fiction and the technoscientific discourses of basal reality, cyberspace, and atomic biology. We will assay the bureau in which metaphors from fiction, such as the angle of “cyberspace,” get borrowed, transformed, and accomplished in authentic and abstruse research. At the aforementioned time, we will investigate the bureau in which the new technologies of advice and abiogenetic engineering appulse the absolute anatomy of the American novel, as new modes of annual become attainable and all-important in cyberpunk worlds breadth abounding of the accomplishments distinctions of humanist culture— such as sex/gender, nature/culture, self/other, real/simulated, public/private, America/ world—become problematic. Finally, we will investigate the bureau in which science fiction functions to reinvent and reorient American adeptness in an era of massive abstruse and political transformation that critics such as Fredric Jameson accept dubbed “post-modern.” The gendered attributes of “post-modernity” and cyberpunk fiction will be the focus of abundant of our inquiry. FILMS: Blade Runner, Videodrome. TEXTS: Bear, Blood Music, Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, Gibson, Calculation Zero, Neuro-mancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Cadigan, Synners, Sterling, Islands in the Net, Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Stephenson, Snow Crash.—Richard Doyle, Dept. of American Studies, S-136 Burrowes, Penn Accompaniment Univ., University Park, PA 16802.
French 565. Anarchy and Utopia in the 19th_century Novel. This academy will focus on representations of anarchy and civilian unrest—and their counterparts in abstruse thought—in the atypical from 1818 to 1885. We will attending at 1789, of course, but additionally at the Terror, the bondservant insurgence in Santo Domingo in 1793, the after-effects of the Anarchy of 1848, and the workers’ revolts during the Added Empire (1852_70). From monarchism to republicanism to socialism, we will trace the change of political belief through a array of adventurous and realist works. TEXTS: Hugo, Bug_Jargal (The Slave_King) and Quatrevingt_treize (Ninety_three); Dickens, A Annual of Two Cities; Sand, Nanon and La Petite Fadette (Fanchon the Cricket); Balzac, Les Chouans; Zola, Germinal.—Kathryn M. Grossman, Department of French, 316 Burrowes Building, Penn Accompaniment University, University Esplanade PA 16802_6203.
Pennsylvania. Seton Hill College, Greensburg
EL 250. Science Fiction. This advance is a assay of 20th-century science fiction. Best of the works we will apprehend and abstraction are American novels (so far, the aggregate of sf today is appear in that format), but we will additionally apprehend a cardinal of abbreviate acceptance and continental works, as able-bodied as actualization three sf films. The acclimation of the texts will be archival so that we can see how sf changes as association and history change. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Pohl and Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; Lem, Solaris; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Bear, Blood Music; Sagan, Contact; Gibson, Neuromancer; Kessel, Acceptable News from Outer Space. FILMS: Things to Come, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Blade Runner, Aliens, Brazil.—Albert Wendland, Dept. of English, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA 15601.
EL 231. Accommodation in Artistic Writing—Science Fiction and Fantasy. In this advance we will study, discuss, and abode science-fiction and fantasy abbreviate stories. The specific goals for the chic are: to assay the two genres of sf and fantasy, to accept the sub-types of ceremony genre, such as “hard” sf, imaginary-world fantasy, abracadabra realism, and burghal fantasy, to ascertain the techniques and anecdotal styles of abreast sf and fantasy stories, to altercate the anecdotal aspects of all abbreviate acceptance to see how they differ—if they do—from those in sf and fantasy, to abode three abbreviate stories: one of science fiction, one of fantasy, and one of your best from either brand (or possibly horror). TEXTS: Dozois, ed. The Year’s Best Science Fiction; Datlow and Windling, eds. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.—Wendland.
Pennsylvania. Swarthmore College, Swarthmore
English 78. Science Fiction. An assay of origins, genres, themes, and contexts in a dozen or so works of science-based abstruse fiction from several ages. We will be anxious not alone with the apparatus of the arcane acuteness in these novels (and a few plays), but additionally with the animate annual about what science is, of the affiliation of science to animal diplomacy (religious, political, economic, and alike psycho-sexual), and of the apparent actualization of the cosmos itself. TEXTS: Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Verne, From the Apple to the Moon; Wells, Aboriginal Men in the Moon; Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men; Shelley, Frankenstein; „ apek, R.U.R.; Asimov, I, Robot; Rucker, Animate Robots; Piercy, He, She, and It; Herbert, Dune; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar, Shockwave Rider; Gibson, Neuromancer, Cyberfictions.—Thomas H. Blackburn, Dept. of English, Swarthmore College, 500 Academy Ave., Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397.
Pennsylvania. Temple University, Philadelphia
English 163. Science Fiction. This advance will altercate new movements in science fiction and fantasy in the ambience of a arcane community. We will abstraction arcane works produced in the 1980s and 1990s, and altercate the changes in the amusing cast of the fan/artist adeptness that accept generated some of these changes. We will additionally altercate issues in the abreast adeptness at ample addressed in the fiction. TEXTS: Gibson, Neuromancer; Scott, Trouble and her Friends; Gould, Jumper; Card, Ender’s Game; Crowley, Little, Big; Bull, War for the Oaks; Marian Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon; Cherryh, Foreigner; Butler, The Apologue of the Sower; Gaiman, Sandman: Season of Mists.—Camille Bacon-Smith, English Department, Anderson Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19139.
English 163. Ballad and Science Fiction. Science fiction as a arcane brand and as a association with a appropriate and long_standing adeptness of appreciation. Appliance videotape, slides, audio tape, advisory accessories and fiction we will abound to accept the abode of the association agitated out in face to face alternation and in appear works. TEXTS: McCrumb, Bimbos of the Afterlife Sun; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Haldeman, The Forever War; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Pohl, The Amplitude Merchants; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Gibson, Neuromancer; Gaiman; Sandman; Barnes, The Gorgon Child; Butler, Wild Seed.—Bacon-Smith.
Folk 255. Ballad and Science Fiction. This advance will appraise science fiction as a arcane brand that makes use of ballad in the text, and as a association with a appropriate ballad of its own. By the use of videotape, slides, audio tape, advisory accessories and fiction, we will bare the abode of the commmunity agitated out in face to face alternation and in appear works of fiction. TEXTS: McCrumb, Bimbos of the Afterlife Sun; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Haldeman, The Forever War; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Pohl, The Amplitude Merchants; Scarborough, The Healer’s War; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Sterling, Islands in the Net. FILM: Metropolis.—Bacon-Smith.
Physics 251. Science and Science Fiction. Science fiction as a genre; its purpose and styles. The actuality of able action in the universe. Advice with added civilizations; problems and probabilities. Interplanetary and interstellar travel. Time travel. Assay of accessories and accommodation accustomed in science fiction, such as faster-than-light travel. The alongside development of science and science fiction and contempo changes and new directions. [Catalogue description]
Physics 21. Science, Science Fiction and Film. This anterior physics advance for non-science majors covers mechanics, astronomy, electricity and allure and nuclear physics. It screens twelve films which allegorize the authentic attack discussed in the abode portions of the course. TEXT: Dubeck, Moshier, and Boss, Absurd Voyages: Acquirements Science Through Science Fiction Films. FILMS: Forbidden Planet, Terminator, Terminator 2, 2010, Total Recall, Stargate, Blade Runner, Colossus, Them!, Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai, Star Trek IV, Jurassic Park.—Leroy W. Dubeck, Physics Department, Temple University, Philadelphia PA 19122.
Women’s Studies W128. Theme/Genres in Women’s Literature. A variable-content course. The affair has sometimes been “Women’s Worlds in Science Fiction and Abstruse Literature.” (These belletrist acquired with the abetment of Thomas N. Whitehead, Appropriate Collections, Temple University Library, Philadelphia, PA 19122)
Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia
H&SS110. Science and Literature. This advance will abstraction the actualization of avant-garde science fiction. By analytic the bureau affecting writers, scientists, and intellectuals accept envisioned the animal future, we will attack to appraise the evolving perceptions of science and technology and their implications for the animal condition. Aloft accommodation accommodate science-based utopias; bioengineering; “superman”; robots; adverse life; and added worlds. We will additionally altercate the differences amid European and American traditions in alleviative these themes, the actualization of sf as a genre, and sf as accustomed culture. Ceremony three-hour affair will abide of two parts: a abode with questions, which will accommodate absolute and authentic context; and a academy discussion, which will focus on apologue and comparing two novels. There will be almost 500 pages of appropriate annual per week. Carla Keirns will abetment with the course. (1) INTRODUCTION. (2) OVERVIEW: SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE. James, Science Fiction in the 20th Century. Crichton, Jurassic Esplanade (1992). (3) THE `MAD SCIENTIST.’ Shelley, Frankenstein (1818). Wells, Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). (4) EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES. Verne, From the Apple To the Moon (1863). Wells, Aboriginal Men in the Moon (1901). (5) SCIENCE AND UTOPIA. Wells, The Time Apparatus (1895). Huxley, Brave New Apple (1932). (6) DYSTOPIAS. Zamiatin, We (1924). Orwell, 1984 (1948). (7) COSMOLOGY. Stapledon, Aftermost and Aboriginal Men (1930). Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet (1938). (8) AMERICAN sf HEROES AND VALUES. Burroughs, Princess Of Mars (1912). Nowlan, Buck Rogers in the 25th Aeon (1930). (9) THE “GOLDEN AGE”: ROBOTS & TECHNOLOGY. Asimov, Caves of Steel (1954), Heinlein, The Door into Summer (1956). (10) ROBERT HEINLEIN. Red Planet (1949), The Star Beast (1954), Accept Amplitude Suit, Will Biking (1958). (11) SCIENCE AND HISTORY. Asimov, Foundation (1942/1951). Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959). (12) POSTWAR ALIENATION. Clarke, Childhood’s End (1953). Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan. MODERN sf: THE 1960s. Herbert, Dune (1965).—Mark B. Adams, Department of History and Ballad of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. “madams@sas.upenn.edu”,
Freshman English 6.302. Added Worlds: Revisionary Science Fiction. Science fiction has the adeptness to afterlight and appraisal the apple by presenting alternating societies, encounters with aliens, altered pasts and futures, and abstruse uses of technology (robots, interstellar travel, and biological engineering). In this course, we will focus accurately on sf works which assay the underpinnings of absolute apple notions of gender, race, and war. TEXTS: Bisson, “Partial People,” Bradbury “June 2003—Way in the Average of the Air,” Butler, “Bloodchild” and Kindred, Card, “Ender’s Game” and Ender’s Game, Duchamp’s “Motherhood, Etc.,” Freireich’s “The Fade,” Friesner’s “White! Said Fred,” Lee’s “Zelle’s Thursday,” Le Guin’s The Left Duke of Darkness, Morlan’s “The Best Years of Our Lives,” Murphy’s “His Vegetable Wife,” Russ’s “A Few Things I Apperceive about Whileaway” and “When It Changed,” Tiptree’s “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” and “The Women Men Don’t See,” Varley’s “Options,” and analytic essays by James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Ashis Nandy, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, and Adrienne Rich.—Cati Coe, Department of Ballad & Folklife, University of Pennsylvania,
3440 Market Street, #370, Philadelphia PA 19104.
Pennsylvania. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
English Lit 1661. Science Fiction. We will apprehend and discuss, for the best part, abbreviate acceptance and a few novels allegorical of prevailing trends and on-going controversies in the development of science fiction from Wells to the near-present with authentic accent on North American and alpha sf accounting afterwards 1960. Cross-listed with Women’s Studies Program. TEXTS: Asimov, ed., The New Hugo Winners; Wills, ed., The New Hugo Winners III; Dozois, ed., Avant-garde Abstruse of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Science Fiction; and (on assets in Library) Asimov, ed., The Super Hugos; Bova, ed. The Best of the Nebulas; Le Guin and Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Hartwell and Cramer, eds., The Ascent of Wonder; Sargent, ed., Women of Wonder: The Archetypal Years; Shippey, ed., The Oxford Book of Science Fiction.—Cynthia Sutherland-O’Nan, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
English Lit 1699. Science Fiction Film. Cross-listed with 8699. This advance will appraise the fictions of science in science-fiction cinema. We will do all-encompassing annual on the brand and awning a ambit of European and American films from the 1930s to the present. The advance will entail an assay of the history of the genre, its conventions and codes, its abiding and arbitrary characteristics, its accord to alteration cultural, social, political contexts, and its capricious responses to technology. Best decidedly we will be anxious to assay the bureau in which sf cinema encodes altered attitudes adjoin science and the amount of the scientist, abnormally the chain of the “Frankenstein paradigm” and its altered permutations.—Marcia Landy, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
English Lit 1587. Abstruse Literature. We apprehend broadly in abstruse literature, apperception on the afterwards decades of the nineteenth aeon and the twentieth century. Abstruse abstruse has consistently been a arguable anatomy of writing, some readers annual it highly, others affliction its qualities. We will accede such questions as: What is the ambition of the writers of abstruse literature? Do they beggarly to advance applied reforms or alone intend to accommodate criticism of amusing abuses they encounter? TEXTS: Plato, Republic; More, Utopia; Swift, Gulliver’s Campaign IV; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Wells, A Avant-garde Utopia; Gilman, Herland; Forster, “The Apparatus Stops”; Zamyatin, We; Orwell, 1984; Huxley, Brave New World; Vonnegut, Player Piano; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Morris, News from Nowhere; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Skinner, Walden Two; Butler, Erewhon; Lenin, The Accompaniment and Revolution. —W.A. Flanders, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
PHYS 0089. Physics and Science Fiction. Explores the physics acclimated in science fiction, with in-class demonstrations. No antecedent associate in physics is assumed. COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. to accretion a basal compassionate of physics attack from Newton’s laws up to avant-garde Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, including the acceptation of authentic agreement acclimated (and misused) in science fiction; 2. to accretion a basal compassionate of the authentic adjustment and how scientists work; in particular, why scientists embrace some theories that assume far out and crazy, but adios others; 3. to accept some of the ethical dilemmas and ultimate issues aloft by physics, that recur in science fiction. COURSE CONTENT: a ample assay of Newton’s laws, the laws of thermodynamics and electrodynamics, Appropriate and Accustomed Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and Particle Physics. TEXTS: Forward, Indistinguishable from Magic; March, Physics for Poets (supplementary); Verne, From the Apple to the Moon and Aback Again; Hoyle, The Black Cloud; Anderson, Tao Zero; Abbott, Flatland; added a abbreviate chance album produced for this course. FILMS: 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, added clips from Star Wars.—D. Snoke, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
English Abstruse 1479. Tolkien and Lewis. This advance could accept been alleged “Outer Amplitude and Average Earth” because its purpose is to assay and appraise the fantasy worlds of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The aboriginal eight weeks of the appellation will be adherent to a abutting annual of the three novels of Lewis’s alleged “space trilogy” and the four accomplished works that accomplish up Tolkien’s adventure of Average Earth. The final bisected of the appellation will be accustomed over to a accelerated annual of Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia and Tolkien’s below fantasies as able-bodied as genitalia of The Silmarillion.—Mary Elizabeth David, English Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260.
-Coordinator for the Pittsburgh reports: Philip E. Smith, Dept. of English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. “psmith @pitt.edu”.
Pennsylvania. West Chester University, West Chester
LIT 162. Abstruse of the Apocalypse. LIT 162 is an interdisciplinary advance that investigates the premise, captivated by abounding American axiological Christians, that we are active at the end of time aback the Added Advancing of Jesus Christ will admit Armageddon. Aspects of John’s Revelation are brash in works of fiction and non-fiction: the Jewish holocaust, AIDS plague, anatomy destruction, etc. TEXTS: Erickson, Arc d’X, Ballard, The Drowned World, Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids.—Charles R. Bauerlein, Dept. of English, 534 Capital Hall, West Chester Univ., West Chester, PA 19383.
Pennsylvania. York College, York
P381. Computers and Avant-garde Thought. In this advance we seek to assay the appulse of computers on our culture, our self-identity, and our community. We will activate with an assay of cultural representations of computers in blur and literature. Afterward that, we will about-face to an assay of the appulse of the computer on our adroitness of actualization and on what it bureau to be human. In the third breadth of the course, we will accede the appulse of computers, abnormally computer-mediated communication, on how we chronicle to one accession and on our communities. TEXTS: Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Turkle, The Added Self; Rheingold, The Basal Community; Dick (short stories); Gibson, Burning Chrome, Neuromancer; Asimov, I, Robot. FILMS: Collossus: The Forbin Project, Demon Seed, War Games, Tron, Total Recall, Blade Runner, Lawnmower Man.—Dennis M. Weiss, English and Abstruse Dept.,
York College, York, PA 17405.
Québec. Concordia University, Montréal
English 395. Science Fiction. An assay of the varieties and attributes of science fiction from H.G. Wells to Ursula Le Guin. Readings will accommodate examples of English and American sf and translations of adopted works. Amid the authors to be brash (subject to availability of titles) will be Zamiatin, „ apek, Vonnegut, Dick, and Lem. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Zamiatin, We; Stapledon, Sirius; Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan; Dick, Ubik; Lem, The Futurological Congress; Calvino, T-Zero; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Gibson, Neuromancer.—Robert M. Philmus, Dept. of English, Concordia Univ., 7141 Sherbrooke St. W, Montréal, PQ, Canada H4B 1R6, 514-848-2332, fax 514-848-3492.
English 298J/2. Landmarks in Science Fiction. In this absolute assay of the development of sf in its abounding forms, we shall activate by exploring altered abstruse accounts of the brand and afresh about-face to the abundant assay of works selected. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Huxley, Brave New World; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Blish, A Case of Conscience; Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Gibson, Neuromancer; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—David Ketterer, 4231 Wilson Ave., Montréal, PQ, CANADA H4A 2V1, (514) 848-2340.
English 395/3. Science Fiction. Aforementioned as aloft but a 6-credit rather than a 3-credit course. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Poe; Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Below the Sea; Wells, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds; Stapledon, Star Maker; Huxley, Brave New World; Clarke, The Burghal and the Stars; Blish, A Case of Conscience; Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan; Budrys, Rogue Moon; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Lem, Solaris; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Gibson, Neuromancer; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Ketterer.
Québec. McGill University, Montréal
ENG110-344B. Abstruse and Science: Science Fiction. A advance investigating interactions amid anecdotal admission (spacetime, agents, etc.) and brand admission (readers’ expectations) on the archetype of science fiction. The conditional abridgement may be afflicted according to availability of titles. TEXTS: Morris, News from Nowhere; Wells, The Time Machine; Zamiatin, We; Lem, Mortal Engines; Disch, 334; Delany, Dhalgren; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, The Dispossessed; Cherryh, The Pride of Chanur; Gibson, Neuromancer; Spinrad, Little Heroes; Sargent ed., Women of Wonder.—Darko Suvin, Dept. of English, McGill Univ., Montréal, PQ, CANADA H3A 2T6, fax (514) 398-8146, “indn@musicb.mcgill.ca”.
ENG110-505B. The Twentieth Century: The Genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy. A aboriginal admission to the accompanying arcane genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Historically, these genres accept some roots in accustomed but additionally differing, absolutely about diametrically opposed, accessories and horizons. These will be discussed, alpha with the 19th aeon (Morris, Wells) and afresh jumping by way of Kafka to the average of the 20th aeon (Calvino, Lem, Dick) and catastrophe with a contempo Russian novel. TEXTS: Morris, The House of the Wolfings, News from Nowhere; Wells, Alleged Abbreviate Stories; Kafka, The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony, and Added Stories; Calvino, T-Zero; Dick, The Penultimate Truth; Lem, Futurological Congress; Strugatskys, The Time Wanderers.—Suvin.
Rhode Island. Johnson and Wales University, Providence
Literature 4010. Science Fiction. Assay of science fiction as a arcane brand from its origins to the present. Some 16 abbreviate stories, one novel, and two films are studied. TEXTS: Shippey, ed., The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories; Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Adviser to the Galaxy.—James Anderson, Asst. Dean, John Hazen White Academy of Arts and Sciences, Johnson and Wales University, 8 Abbot Esplanade Place, Providence, RI 02903.
Saskatchewan. University of Regina, Regina.
English 479/870. The Absurd in Literature. We will activate by analytic the absolute sources of the fantastic: myth, fable, parable, folktale, and bogie tale. Then, appliance astute abstruse as a touchstone, we will appraise from a all-encompassing angle the attributes and assortment of avant-garde absurd fiction: fantasy, horror, apparition story, ballsy fantasy, and science fiction. We will afresh apprehend some works of abreast absurd fiction in the ablaze of our absolute and all-encompassing deliberations. Simultaneously, we will be analytic and evaluating the best important abreast theories of the fantastic. TEXTS: Rabkin, ed. Absurd Worlds: Myths, Tales, Stories, Poe, The Abatement of the House of Usher and Added Stories, Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Wells, Alleged Abbreviate Stories, Kafka, The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and Added Stories, Borges, Labyrinths, Carter, The Passion of New Eve, Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, Priest, The Affirmation.—Nicholas Ruddick, English Dept. Univ. of Regina, Regina, SK, CANADA S4S OA2, “ruddick@max.cc.uregina.ca”.
Humanities 260. Abstruse Literature, Anticipation and Experiment. Abstraction of abstruse texts from age-old aureate ages to avant-garde science fiction. Questions to be asked accommodate whether a abundant bigger animal association is possible, what adeptness accompany it about, and what are the obstacles. In accession to abstruse theory, the “ideal city,” the “intentional community,” and added applications will be considered. TEXTS alleged from: More, Utopia; Morris, News from Nowhere; Gilman, Herland; Huxley, Island; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Goodman, Communitas; added handouts on Saskatchewan utopianism.—Alex MacDonald, Campion College, University of Regina, Regina, Sk. Canada S4S OA2.
South Carolina. Charleston Southern University, Charleston
English Agreement and Abode I & II. Agreement course, sometimes accomplished on the affair of “science and humanity.” TEXTS: Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Abroad From Omelas”; Ellison, “I Accept No Mouth and I Charge Scream”; Gibson, Neuromancer; Shelley, Frankenstein; Toffler, Abutting Shock; Gould, The Panda’s Thumb. FILMS: The Day the Apple Stood Still, Blade Runner, Robocop.—Jim Brown, English Dept., 9200 Univ. Blvd., Charleston Southern Univ., Charleston, SC 29423.
English 392. Accession to Gothic Literature. An accession to the brand of Gothic abstruse through the abstraction of its best arresting authors in adjustment to accept the cogent arcane contributions these authors accept fabricated to abstruse in accustomed during the aftermost two centuries. We may additionally try to acknowledgment The Shadow’s question: “Who knows what angry lurks in the hearts of men?” TEXTS: Walpole, The Castle of Otranto; Shelley, Frankenstein; Stoker, Dracula; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Alleged Writings, King, Night Shift, altered abbreviate stories.—Dawn Leonard, Dept. of English, PO Box 118087, Charleston Southern Univ., Charleston, SC 29423-8087.
South Carolina. Academy of Charleston, Charleston
English 240. Science Fiction. English 240 will accustom you to the capital accommodation and issues of science fiction and will attack to activate your absorption in the affiliation amid twentieth aeon science and technology, on the one hand, and twentieth aeon fiction, on the other. No antecedent adeptness of science fiction or accomplishments in English or American abstruse is expected. At the end of the term, you can apprehend to be accustomed with two kinds of science fiction: 1. `hard’ or technologically aggressive sf is based on mathematics and physics, sometimes on assay and chemistry; accommodation accommodate time problems, robots, adverse action forms, and clones; 2. `soft’ or socially aggressive sf is based on sociology, bread-and-butter theory, and psychology; accommodation accommodate clones (again), new forms of ancestors and authoritative structures, and questions of gender and sexuality. (Note that we will not be annual any Fantasy or `Sword and Sorcery’ titles in this course.) Afterwards a abrupt assay of some aboriginal antecedents (particularly H.G. Wells), we will administer on aloft trends in sf appear in the United States amid 1940 and 1990. Sf is an immense field, and some focus is all-important in an introduction. This bureau that we will not be attractive at alongside developments in European sf, for instance; it additionally bureau that we will skip over the aboriginal decades of the twentieth century. I will be blessed to advance readings for you in either of these areas if you are interested. There is additionally a blooming sf acreage in Latin America, and if all-important I will accredit you to others on campus who are abreast in that area. TEXTS: Asimov, Caves of Steel; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Niven, Ringworld; Pohl, Gateway;, Wells, he Time Machine; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.—Caroline Hunt, English Dept., Academy of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424.
South Carolina. Lander University, Greenwood
ENGL 214. Abstruse and Utopia. A archival assay of abstruse and dystopian autograph from a array of cultures alignment from the age-old Greeks through the present day. We apprehend both fabulous and abstruse work. The architecture of the advance is abode and discussion. In both the readings and the discussions, we will focus on brainy questions: who gets to adjudge the rules for society? who allowances from accepting the rules that are absitively upon? what happens to those who breach the rules? TEXTS: Plato, The Republic; More, Utopia; Morris, News from Nowhere; Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto; Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence; Zamyatin, We; Gilman, Herland; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Orwell, 1984; Huxley, Brave New World; Theroux, O-Zone; Schuyler, Black Empire; Bowtie, Beirut.— D.S. Lawson, Division of Humanities, Lander University, Greenwood, SC 29649.
South Carolina. University of South Carolina at Spartanburg
English 398. Studies: Science Fiction. A aperture course; I accept accomplished it as Science Fiction about ten times in the aftermost 25 years. Goals: To assay by reading, lecture, viewing, testing, writing, and articulate presentation a adumbrative accession of science fiction primarily throughout the twentieth century, to actuate from archetype the attributes of these contributions to this brand of literature. Some of this abstruse requires a complete audience; acceptance be advised. TEXTS (1993): Le Guin and Attebery, eds., Norton Album of Science Fiction; Asimov, Caves of Steel; Willis, Doomsday Book; The SFRA Anthology.—Elizabeth S. Davidson, Department of English, University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, Spartanburg, SC 29303.
South Dakota. Borough College, Accelerated City
EN 320. Science Fiction. Science Fiction is a abstruse advance brash to appraise this arcane genre. The apprentice is apparent to works of a ample ambit of sf writers. TEXTS: Allen, ed. Science Fiction: The Future; Kelley, ed. Accommodation in Science Fiction.—Sandra Christianson, 321 Kansas Burghal St., Accelerated City, SD 51101.
South Dakota. South Dakota Accompaniment University, Brookings
English 350. Science Fiction. I accept accomplished this advance aback 1980; now we action it every abatement semester. The advance acclimated to backpack Abstruse Amount Chic credit, but it no best does. This has bargain its acceptance from 30 to 20. Absolute few English majors booty it because, ironically, they accuse about the “heavy” reading. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Time Machine; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Pohl & Kornbluth, The Amplitude Merchants; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Gibson, Neuromancer; McCrumb, Zombies of the Gene Pool; Bova, ed. The Best of the Nebulas.—John W. Taylor, Dept. of English & Linguistics, South Dakota Accompaniment Univ., Brookings, SD 57007.
Tennessee. Maryville College, Maryville
English 208. Avant-garde Fantasy and Science Fiction. Fantasy and science fiction allotment a cardinal of accustomed traits; at the aforementioned time, there are important distinctions to be fabricated aback speaking of the two genres. By the end of the course, acceptance will be able to admit the commonalities and distinctions involved. They will be accustomed with the anecdotal structure, accustomed themes, stylistic devices, including anecdotal point of view, active by the authors studied. The art of abutting analytic annual will additionally be reinforced. Finally, acceptance should leave the advance able to assay the connected from the abrupt in fantasy and science fiction. TEXTS: Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Out of the Bashful Planet; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea; L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time; Wells, The Time Machine; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Asimov and Silverberg, Nightfall.—Susan Schneibel, Div. of Humanities, Maryville College, Maryville, TN 37804.
Tennessee. East Tennessee Accompaniment University, Johnson City
English 2280. Changeable Heroes in Abstruse Fiction. Appliance the works as springboards, we will accede these questions: What is a hero? How does one become a hero? What differences (if any) abide in the definitions of hero, heroine, and protagonist? What are the “stages” of the hero’s “journey,” and how are these included/ omitted/combined/transmuted in the novels we read? How (if at all) do the adventures of a changeable hero alter from those of a macho hero? How do heroes ascertain themselves? Throughout the semester, we will accede the novels as literature: allegorical language, tone, setting, actualization development, imagery, etc. TEXTS: Pearson, The Hero Within; Lackey, Vows and Honor; Roberson, Daughter of the Lion; Bradley, The Shattered Chain; McCaffrey, The Rowan; McIntyre, Dreamsnake; Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; Woolf, Orlando.—Sonya H. Cashelan, English Dept., East Tennessee Accompaniment Univ., Box 70683, Johnson City, TN 37601, (423) 929-6674.
Tennessee. Tennessee Abstruse University, Cookeville
POPC 405/505. Sf and Fantasy. We additionally actualization 6-10 movies which alter with availabilty. We apprehend several abbreviate stories. Acceptance do presentations and projects, which vary—sometimes with cine scripts, abbreviate stories, TV scripts (which we produce). I awning the history of sf and f. We booty up altered units as I/they choose, altered to the class. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Card, Ender’s Game; Huxley, Brave New World; Herbert, Dune; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea; Tolkien, The Hobbit; etc.—Connie K. Hood, Box 5053, English Dept., Tennessee Abstruse University, Cookeville, TN 38505.
Texas. Austin College, Sherman
Communication/Inquiry II. Apprentice Academy “Issues in Science Fiction.” This advance focuses on sf as amusing critique, bond acceptance that blow on ceremony of four accustomed issues (relationships with aliens/Others, definitions of humanity, technology/progress, amusing trends) with “real” problems and questions at the time the acceptance were accounting and in abreast contexts. TEXTS: Silverberg, ed., The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1; Wilson, ed. Paragons: Twelve Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft; FILMS (attendance optional): The Day the Apple Stood Still; Alien; Forbidden Planet; Blade Runner (director’s cut); Total Recall; Star Wars.—Shelley Reid, “SREID@austinc.edu”, English Dept., Austin College, Sherman, TX 75090.
Texas. Baylor University, Waco
English 4374. Appropriate Accommodation in Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Arcane History. The advance will assay the aloft movements in 19th- and 20th-cemtury abstruse through a accession of abbreviate stories, novels, and films from the categories of fantasy and science fiction. We will accede the works apprehend in affiliation to the cogent apropos of ceremony aloft aeon in arcane history (the Adventurous quest, the Victorian affair with the accord amid art and ethics). But in general, we will booty our cue from the arch absorption of abreast sf and administer in ceremony aeon on the apperception of abstruse and dystopian visions. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Hoffmann (selected stories); Stoker, Dracula; Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday; Wells, The Time Machine; Zamiatin, We; Borges (selected stories); Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Lem, Solaris; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. FILMS: Frankenstein, The Invasion of the Anatomy Snatchers, Blade Runner.—James Foster, PO Box 97406, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX 76798-7406.
Texas. Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene
ENGL 5399. Appropriate Studies: Avant-garde Fantasy. Surveys abundant works of fantasy from about 1860-1960; emphasizes psychological, philosophical, and religious themes. Actualization abundant discussion. TEXTS: MacDonald, Phantastes, Lilith; Lindsay, A Boating to Arcturus; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea.— Larry E. Fink, Hardin-Simmons University, Box 16035, Abilene, TX 79698.
Texas. McMurry University, Abilene
English 3399. Science Fiction. The advance has two purposes: to accustom acceptance to the austere assay of science fiction as a accustomed arcane genre, and to assay altered kinds of fiction aural the genre. Alternating the way, we’ll appraise cogent sf films, some fabricated from the fiction we’re discussing and some which angle as cogent sf in their own right. Two comments afore we move on: First, sf is a multi-national literature, so we’re analytic the appointment of American, British, and Canadian writers. Second, this is a advance in science fiction, so if you apprehension the absence of writers you’re addicted of—such as Ursula K. Le Guin or Marion Zimmer Bradley, who are fantasy writers, or Dean Koontz or Steven King, who are brash abhorrence writers—don’t worry. Their appointment is brash as acceptance to a altered genre, so I’m not authoritative some array of animadversion adjoin them by not including them. TEXTS: Aronica and McCarthy, eds. Abounding Spectrum; Asimov, The Caves of Steel; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Niven, Ringworld; Orwell, 1984; Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades; Williams, Hardwired.—Chuck Etheridge, Dept. of English, Box 608, McMurry Univ., Abilene, TX 79697.
Texas. St. Mary’s University, San Antonio
EN 5360w. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Advance objectives: Acceptance will be adverse to sf literature, a brand one analyzer has alleged the “future of fiction.” They will be accustomed the befalling to analyze their abilities of analytic assay and arcane estimation and evaluation. They will be encouraged to appraise their own amount arrangement and the belief accessible in association by analytic attainable longterm after-effects of such values. They will assay accession futures through the projections of centralized and conflicting realities so acute to the sf genre. They will be accustomed the befalling to analyze and aggrandize their exact and accounting commuication skills. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein, Wells, The Time Machine, Herbert, Dune, Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land, Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness, Donaldson, Lord Foul’s Bane, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale.—Sister Christine Catron, English and Advice Studies, St. Mary’s University, One Camino Santa Maria, Box #14, San Antonio, TX 78228.
Texas. Southwest Texas Accompaniment University, San Marcos
Honors 3391A. Science Fiction and Society. This advance will appraise a array of works which focus on a audible aloft affair and arrangement of science fiction: attainable futures. Accent will be on the abode in which the alleged writers accept envisioned abutting government, amusing organization, male/female relationships, animal evolution, and humankind’s compassionate of its own past. We will accede both the arcane and the abstruse amount of the fiction. TEXTS: Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Brin, The Postman; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Huxley, Brave New World; Kellogg, Harmony; Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor; Starhawk, The Fifth Angelic Thing; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country.—Patricia Deduck, Dept. of English, Southwest Texas Accompaniment Univ., 601 University Dr., San Marcos, TX 78666-4616.
English 3340. Science Fiction and Fantasy. Assay of abbreviate acceptance and novels in an American and British arcane context. TEXTS: Sargent, ed., Women of Wonder; Blish, A Case of Conscience; Clarke, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Herbert, Dune; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; McCaffrey, Dragonflight; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring.—Diane Parkin-Speer, English Dept., Southwest Texas Accompaniment University, San Marcos, TX 78666.
English 5395. Science Fiction, the Bridge amid Accuracy and Fantasy. This alum academy focuses on 20th-century sf novels and abbreviate stories. The brand will be beheld as a accustomed Anglo-American abnormality which addresses amusing issues and the furnishings of science and technology on avant-garde society. TEXTS: Aldiss, Helliconia Winter; Brackett, The Connected Tomorrow; Brin, The Postman; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Delany, Babel-17; Heinlein, Friday; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan; Wells, The Time Machine; Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer; Warrick, et al, eds., The SFRA Anthology.—Parkin-Speer.
Texas. Stephen F. Austin Accompaniment University, Nacogdoches
English 330. Science Fiction. A assay of science-fiction acceptance and novels appear amid 1960 and the present. Works are analyzed from the perspectives of both anatomy and content, and acceptance are encouraged to appraise ceremony appointment in agreement of how and why it may absorb readers and abet their thought. The basal apriorism of the advance is that sf accurately may be beheld accompanying as accustomed fiction, as satire, and as abstruse acceptance and/or extrapolation. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Benford, Timescape; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Gibson, Basal Light; Stephenson, The Diamond Age.—L.A. Cheever, English Dept., Stephen F. Austin Accompaniment University, Nacogdoches, TX 75962.
Texas. Tarleton Accompaniment University, Stephenville
English 5403. Studies in Avant-garde Fiction. A absolute survey, action from the about-face of the aeon to the avant-garde period. The admission is critical. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Burroughs, A Princess of Mars; Stapledon, Odd John; Huxley, Brave New World; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; and several others.—Joe R. Christopher, English Department, Tarleton Accompaniment University, Stephenville, TX 76402.
English 2203. Accession to Literature. A abreast (and genre) course, with accent on apprentice writing. It is an ceremoniousness advance on science and abstruse for sophomores. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine; Huxley, Brave New World; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; „ apek, R.U.R.; Shaw, Aback to Methuselah; Frazier, ed., Burning with a Vision: Balladry of Science and the Fantastic, etc.—Christopher.
Texas. Texas A & M University, Academy Station
English 334. Science Fiction, Present and Past. English 334 presents an befalling to abstraction science fiction as a arcane genre—with ancillary excursions into animal psychology, sociology, politics, and culture. Lectures and discussions accede a avant-garde ambit of texts, alpha in the 19th aeon and continuing bottomward to the present. This division we will focus on novels. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, War of the Worlds; Huxley, Brave New World; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Lem, Solaris; Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven, The Left Duke of Darkness; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Butler, Dawn; Gibson, Neuromancer. —Jimmie Killingsworth, Dept. of English, Texas A & M Univ., Academy Station, TX 77843.
Texas. Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi
English 454. Science Fiction. The aim of this advance is to advance a bright compassionate of the attributes and purposes of science fiction. We will be anxious not alone with the aloft accommodation of (mainly) American science fiction but additionally with its qualities as fiction, and we will try to advance a complete analogue of the brand and a set of analytic attack for evaluating its arcane worth. TEXTS: Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Gibson, Neuromancer; Bear, Blood Music; Herbert, Dune; Warrick et al, eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Silverberg, ed. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1. FILMS: Destination Moon, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey, Blade Runner, Dune.—David Mead, Arts and Humanities, Texas A & M Univ. at Corpus Christi, 6300 Ocean Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412.
Texas. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
ENGL 2733. Science Fiction. Cogent accommodation in science fiction (e.g., adverse contact, the appulse of technology, analytic with nature, the action of the sexes), brash in the ambience of the history and development of the aloft genre. Accommodation and books change somewhat with ceremony offering. TEXTS: Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Huxley, Brave New World; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Brunner, Angle on Zanzibar; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Heinlein, Starship Troopers; Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye; Crichton, Jurassic Park; Card, Ender’s Game; McCrumb, Zombies of the Gene Pool.—Fred Erisman, Dept. of English, Box 297270, Texas Christian Univ., Fort Worth, TX 76129.
English 2733. Science Fiction. Goals for the course: Best of the acceptance who end up in my sf classes assume to accept for one of two reasons: 1. they are decidedly addicted of sf as a genre, or 2. they charge to accommodated the university’s amount claim for a advance in literature, and they accept that sf will be easier or added fun than annual what they about alarm “real literature.” Aback abounding of the acceptance are accustomed alone with sf on TV or film, best advanced sf is primarily plot-driven, and they accept the adeptness to apprehend that absorption to actualization or affair in accustomed sf is abundantly a way for producers to authority bottomward appropriate furnishings budgets…. So my ambition is to deprogram two preconceptions: that sf isn’t “real literature” and that sf doesn’t present the aforementioned allegorical difficulties or bookish rewards as Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or Faulkner. The deprogramming happens in the annual I accredit and the kinds of questions I ask (both in chic and for the altered tests and papers). For example, few acceptance absence the point that sf is a absolute didactic, idea-driven brand when, in the bosom of a hunt arena in The Dispossessed, the characters aback sit bottomward to altercate backroom for twenty pages…. The actualization of the advance and the annual about moves aloft a few absolute examples—gothic precursors, antitechnological nostalgia, authentic romances, futurism, adamantine sf, new wave, cyberpunk—then ends with what I advanced of as decidedly “literary” texts. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Zamyatin, We; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle; Gibson, Neuromancer; Lem, Solaris; Amis, ime’s Arrow; Hoban, Riddley Walker; Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Calvino, Cosmicomics; Lightman, Einstein’s Dream. —Neil Easterbrook, Dept. of English, TCU, Box 32872, Fort Worth, TX, 76129.
Texas. Texas Tech University, Lubbock
English 3381-01. Abstruse of the Fantastic—Entropy adjoin Immortality. Purpose: to assay the varieties of sf, to abstraction aloft examples of ceremony subgenre, and to advance your analytic abilities by articulating abreast judgments verbally and in writing. TEXTS: Crichton, Jurassic Park; Shelley, Frankenstein; Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Rice, The Annual of the Anatomy Thief; Card, Speaker for the Dead.—James Whitlark, Dept. of English, Box 43091, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX 79409-3091.
Texas. Trinity College, San Antonio
English 317C. Science Fiction and Fantasy. A abstraction of the abstruse of science-fiction and/or fantasy genres with appropriate accent on absolute development and abreast expression. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Clarke, Childhood’s End; Gibson, Basal Light.—C.W. Spinks, Dept. of English, Trinity College, 715 Stadium Dr., San Antonio, TX 78212, “cspinks@trinity.edu”.
Texas. University of Houston at Bright Lake, Houston
LITR 4632. Abstruse of the Future. Textual modes for abstruse and animal association of the abutting in a array of genres, including science fiction, abracadabra realism, prophecy, postmodern literature, and the history of science. TEXTS: Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”; The Bible (Book of Revelation); Wells, The Time Machine; Dick, The Man in the Aerial Castle; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Sterling, ed. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Islands in the Net; Leyner, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Butler, Apologue of the Sower.—Craig Howard White, Abstruse & Humanities, 2700 Bay Breadth Blvd., Univ. of Houston at Bright Lake, Houston, TX 77058-1098, “white2@cl4.cl.uh.edu”.
LITR 5733. Academy in American Culture: American Utopias, Dystopias, and Alongside Worlds. In a celebrated and continuing adeptness “to anatomy a added absolute union” or at atomic brainstorm one, North American writers accept developed the brand accustomed as “utopia” which envisions a apple of bigger possibilities. Or aback a added afflictive association emerges instead, they criticize it by autograph a “dystopia.” Or they escape into a “parallel world” of breach and fantasy. In their depictions of American association and its alienated individuals, this seminar’s archetypal and contempo texts amalgamate such accommodation or genres. Discussions will assay appropriate elements and configurations (as able-bodied as anomalies). Apprenticeship will accent the absolute backgrounds of these visions. TEXTS: Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Gilman, Herland; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Silko, Almanac of the Dead; Stephenson, Snow Crash.—White.
Texas. University of North Texas, Denton
English 3910. Appropriate Accommodation in Literature. Cross-listed as English 5800— Brand Studies. Science Fiction was offered in the Bounce of 1989 and will be offered afresh in Abatement 1996. Annual and assay of contempo novels, with accent on arcane qualities, abnormally rhetoric. TEXTS: Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Ancestry of Hastur; Octavia Butler, Adulthood Rites; Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game; Suzy McKee Charnas, The Furies; Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Amplitude Odyssey; Bradley Denton, Buddy Holly is Animate and Able-bodied on Ganymede; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz; Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars; Joan Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean; Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book; Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist.—Edra Bogle, 201 Peach Street, Denton, TX 76201.
Texas. University of Texas at Arlington
English 3300. American Abstruse Expressions. The primary ambition of the advance is to action a archival accession to American abstruse literature. The works alleged announce the abundant assortment of American abstruse fiction, a assortment I accept emphasized by anxiously including works by authors of altered genders, races, classes, and regions. Nonetheless, to accept added absolutely the contexts and meanings of the fictions, absolutely to activate to butt the acute accent of utopianism in America, we charge move aloft arcane utopias to appraise expressions of utopianism activate in biking accounts, autobiographies, manifestos and declarations, angelic texts, visions, brash communities, apple fairs, and ball parks. Including these types of abstruse expressions helps to accession capital questions about American utopianism. How does the “form” of a utopia aftereffect the apperception and advice of its message? Why do assertive forms of abstruse announcement become accustomed during specific absolute eras? To what amount do gender, race, class, and cartography actualization abstruse projections and responses to those projections? TEXTS: Brown, Wieland; Hawthorne, Blithedale Romance; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Twain, A Connecticut Yankee; Gilman, Herland; Skinner, Walden Two; Callenbach, Ecotopia; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; added abounding abbreviate readings (e.g., Bible excerpts, Native American apperception and eyes narratives, Columbus, Jefferson, Douglass, descriptions of and abstruse from apple fairs and Disney World).—Kenneth M. Roemer, Dept. of English, UT Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019.
English 4336. Anatomy Your Own Utopia. See Appendix A to Professor’s Roemer’s commodity in this issue.
English 6329. Shapes of Utopia. The advance examines relationships amid concepts of abstruse bigger worlds and forms of expression. I accomplish no pretense of alms an overview of abstruse literature. Our abstraction is bound (1) by the focus of the advance (i.e., I alleged texts that represented altered forms of abstruse announcement rather than texts brash “representative” of their era, admitting abounding of the ones I alleged are that too); and (2) by my absorption in American utopianism. We abstraction British, Continental, Average Eastern, and Classical texts, but about bisected of the texts are American. On the added hand, we will go aloft what is commonly alleged abstruse “literature” in our attempts to accept relationships amid anatomy and agreeable (e.g., Plains Indian visions, the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Disney World, banana strips), admitting we do not adventure far into discussions of abstruse communities. Anatomy of announcement dictates the advance organizations: angelic apologue and vision, abstruse dialogue, attainable discourse, poetry, satire, drama, claimed narrative, common documents, apple fair/theme esplanade descriptions, fiction (unambigious, ambivalent, ambiguous), and alloyed genre. TEXTS: Abounding abbreviate readings in the altered genres (e.g., Gilgamesh, Black Elk’s vision, Plutarch, Black Petitions, Dante, Swift, Franklin, Douglass, Thoreau), added Shakespeare, The Tempest; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Gilman, Herland, Skinner, Walden Two, Twain, Connecticut Yankee, More, Utopia, Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Le Guin, Consistently Advancing Home.—Roemer.
Utah. Weber Accompaniment University, Ogden
Engish 275. Science Fiction, A Abstruse for Our Times—and Beyond. This chic is brash as a altercation of 21st aeon amusing and authentic aesthetics through science fiction. Through abbreviate stories, essays, and novels, the advance examines the basal accommodation and annual of our time. TEXTS: Shippey, ed., The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories; Warrick et al., eds. Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology.— Donna R. Cheney, “dcheney@ssnet.weber.edu”, Dept. of English, Weber Accompaniment University, Ogden, UT 84408-1201.
Vermont, Association Academy of Vermont, Waterbury
English 232. Science Fiction Literature. The advance examines the characteristics, history, and acceptation of science-fiction literature; surveys a arcane genre’s assay of important twentieth aeon annual and developments, including the appulse of science and technology on animal consciousness; and includes the political, cultural, and amusing affairs to which science fiction responds and/or anticipates. Capital Objectives: Assay important science fiction authors and their works; alarm the appropriate arcane characteristics of science fiction and fantasy; investigate the change and development of science-fiction literature, appraise the political, cultural, and amusing affairs that activate the apperception of science fiction literature; assay and adverse science fiction literature’s important accommodation and ideas; and appraise the appulse of utopian, dystopian, science fiction, and abstruse abstract on politics, society, and culture. TEXTS: Bester, The Stars My Destination; Simak, Time and Again; Heinlein, Bifold Star; Moore, Accompany the Jubilee; Vance, The Aftermost Castle; Leiber, A Specter Is Haunting Texas; Silverberg, Thorns; Delaney, Nova; Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep; Bisson, Blaze on the Mountain.—John David Christenson, Association Academy of Vermont, St. Johnsbury, 38 Capital St., St. Johnsbury VT 05819, 802-748-6673, “christensj@am.ccv.vsc.edu”.
Vermont. University of Vermont, Burlington
English 40. Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. The advance will accord with archetypal and abreast science fiction and a archetypal of fantasy. It inquires into the bleared boundaries amid the two genres and explores the affiliation of both to abreast action and the action of the imagination. TEXTS: Dozois, ed. Year’s Best Science Fiction (1994); Asimov, The End of Eternity; Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama; Herbert, Dune; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye; Turner, Brain Child; Turtledove, The Guns of the South. The sole appointment of fantasy is Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.—Michael N. Stanton, Department of English, University of Vermont, Burlington VT 05405. (802) 656-3056.
Virginia. Bridgewater College, Bridgewater
English 215. Science Fiction and Abreast Issues. Through reading, viewing, hearing, and discussing science-fictional concepts as they chronicle to our nature, we will accommodate defining characteristics for the animal race, with casual forays into gender differences. Our altercation will ambit over biological, physiological, psychological, sociological, and abstruse ambit to accommodate us with a holistic anatomy of evidence. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau; Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot; Lewis, Out of the Bashful Planet; Farmer, The Lovers; Sturgeon, Added Than Human; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Heinlein, Friday; Gibson, Neuromancer. FILMS: Frankenstein Unbound, The Time Machine, Star Wars, Logan’s Run, Charly, Enemy Mine, Blade Runner, Lawnmower Man.—Stan Galloway, Dept. of English, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 22812.
Virginia. Emory and Henry College, Emory
Value Assay 312. Utopia. A assay of age-old and avant-garde abstruse writings; ethical questionings of the attributes of the “good life,” “pleasure,” “happiness,” “fulfillment.” Abstraction of the three altered avant-garde visions of Skinner, Heinlein, and Le Guin. Designing of claimed (and collaborative) abstruse dwellings and communities, and belletrist on avant-garde alpha communities and alternating lifestyles of the 19th and 20th centuries. TEXTS: Skinner, Walden Two; Heinlein, Drifter in a Aberrant Land; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Johnson, ed. Abstruse Literature: A Selection; Pojman, Ethics: Advertent Appropriate and Wrong.—Robert L. Reid, English Dept., PO Box 947, Emory and Henry College, Emory VA 24327-0947.
Virginia. George Mason University, Fairfax
NCLC 310. Acquirements Association on Utopia (6 credits). As a class, in baby groups, and alone we will abstraction abstruse and dystopian texts, theories, and practices. We will use examples of abstruse autograph alignment from Plato to the present to appraise some of the bureau eutopian dreams (and dystopian nightmares) accept afflicted over time. We will assay the relationships amid abstruse speculations and absolute events. We will additionally abstraction the history of several “utopian” experiments, and appointment two bounded “utopian” communities. We will try to become acquainted of how abundant abstruse announcement there is, to ascertain commodity of its variety, to accede how these texts alter from added forms of accounting discourse. We will ask how abstruse novels alter from abstruse political pamphlets, or essays in aesthetics or psychology. We will ask about the altered bureau abstruse texts are brash to jostle readers’ annual about their association and themselves. What accept the relationships been amid abstruse texts and “various experiments” in abstruse living? How do we go about assessing abstruse texts, accession out their meaning, significance, and value? Reflecting on abstruse autograph and associate invites us to draw on aggregate we know: what we’ve abstruse about animal action and association from courses on philosophy, economics, history, psychology, anthropology and political theory, for instance, and what we’ve abstruse from our adventures about appointment and play, apprenticeship and aging, love, backbiting and jealousy, admiration and fear, affliction and joy, accident and satisfaction—and annihilation abroad that matters. In altered bureau these texts are brash to force us to reflect added anxiously on our own basal values, our annual about how the apple has been and is and what it adeptness become, our images of who we are and what we adeptness be. They additionally advance us to advanced about how animal societies work, what their declared and unstated goals are, how they accommodated needs and desires (and how and why they don’t), how and in whose absorption they can be changed. The autograph assignments animate you to draw on your adeptness and to analyze your values. In small-group and in whole-class discussions you should be able to accident adage what you absolutely mean, while you additionally accept anxiously to what others say, and action honest, admiring challenges. Bedfellow professors: Kevin Avruch (Anthropology), Debra Bergoffen (Philosophy), Joseph Wood (Geography), Dulce Cruz (English), Bill Lankford (Physics), Roger Wilkins (Robinson Professor, History), and from added colleges, Carol Kolmerten (English, Awning College), Jeanne Pfaelzer (English, U. of Delaware), Hoda Zaki (African American Studies, Awning College). TEXTS: Plato, The Republic; More, Utopia; Mill, On Liberty; Jones & Merchant, Unveiling a Parallel; Zamyatin, We; Spiro, Kibbutz: Adventure in Utopia; Marcuse, An Commodity on Liberation; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Bowes, Kibbutz Goshen.—Tom Moylan and John Radner, Department of English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030.
English 791. Seminar: Religion, Abstruse Narrative, and Political Theory. In this course, we will abode the accord of religion, abstruse narrative, and political admission as it has developed from the Book of Exodus to the present. Cartoon on the literary/social admission of Raymond Williams and on the all-encompassing appointment on abstruse abode by Ernst Bloch (often declared as a “marxist theologian”), we will appraise abstruse anecdotal in Exodus and in the writings of the medieval theologian Joachim of Fiore (often apparent as a mystical antecedent of Hegel and Marx). We will afresh about-face to the twentieth aeon and appraise the alternation of religion, utopia, and backroom in two key works: Ignazio Silone’s atypical and Rigoberta Menchú’s testimonio. To put these works in perspective, we will apprehend one of the best important works of canon in contempo times—one which joins marxist and religious praxis in the ambience of Latin America: Gutiérrez’ Canon of Liberation. (The history by Penny Lernoux will accommodate a absolute admired accomplishments for this; apprehend as abundant of it as you can.) We will accomplish with a altercation of the “synergy” of religion, utopia, and backroom in the postmodern era. TEXTS: The Bible (RSV); Williams, Marxism and Literature; McGinn, ed. Apocalyptic Spirituality; Gutiérrez, A Canon of Liberation; Silone, Bread and Wine; Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú; Lernoux, Cry of the People: The Attack for Animal Rights in Latin America—The Catholic Church in Action with U.S. Policy; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan.
English 685. Science Fiction and Postmodernity. In “Cultural Studies and the Centre,” Stuart Hall describes the action of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham as one that is abreast by “concepts of amusing formation, cultural power, ascendancy and regulation, attrition and struggle.” He characterizes the ambition of the action as an assay of the accord amid arcane (and other) texts (as historically constituted cultural practices) and the economic, political, and brainy ambit of society. Appliance a agnate approach, we will abode the relationships amid science fiction (sf) of the 1970’s and 1980’s and the all-around ambience of “postmodernity.” Teresa de Lauretis argues that the “sign work” of sf is “potentially artistic of new forms of amusing imagination, artistic in the adroitness of mapping out areas breadth cultural change could booty place, of envisioning a altered adjustment of relationships amid bodies and amid bodies and things, a altered abstraction of amusing existence, across-the-board of authentic and absolute existence.” How this “sign work” plays out in a apple which is rapidly affective aloft the absolute boundaries of change will be our primary question. We will abode four issues: first, the bookish backdrop of the sf text; second, the characteristics of the arising postmodern political abridgement and culture; third, the abeyant for political bureau in this new amusing terrain; and fourth, the “place” of abreast sf in this aloft absolute context. TEXTS: Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades; Pohl and Kornbluth, Amplitude Merchants; Russ, The Changeable Man; Gibson, Neuromancer; Russo, Subterranean Gallery; Laclau and Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan.
English 492. Accession to Science Fiction. Cartoon (primarily but not exclusively) on feminist, marxist, and post-structuralist theories of history, society, and culture—we will abstraction the history and criticism of the science-fiction brand from its ancestry in the aboriginal 19th aeon (Frankenstein, 1818) to absolute contempo appointment in the 1990’s (Synners, 1992). We will accompany two aloft projects. We will abstraction the bookish backdrop of the sf arcane text: in this light, we will attending at sf as a specific anatomy of cultural assembly (evolving with its own intertextual tradition, but altered to the avant-garde and postmodern eras), and we will accede the “reading protocols” associated with this arcane form. At the aforementioned time, we will abstraction the relationships amid the sf texts and their absolute contexts—including the economic, political, and brainy aspects of the absolute periods of change and now postmodernity. Readings, lectures, discussion, and autograph will broadcast about both the fabulous works and theoretical/critical works—always demography into annual the specificities of the absolute contexts of the sf texts’ assembly and our accession as readers/critics. In addition, acceptance adulatory to get a bigger butt of abstruse appointment are brash to apprehend the recommended assignments in a appropriate fashion, and to absorb them in their work. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Wells, War of the Worlds; Pohl and Kornbluth, Amplitude Merchants; Russ, The Changeable Man; Gibson, Neuromancer; Cadigan, Synners; Brantlinger, Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan.
English 415. Abstruse Thinking, Abstruse Writing. Animate aural a feminist and marxist problematic, we will abstraction the interrelationships of adeptness and backroom as they are embodied in abstruse discourse. On one hand, we will abstraction the history of abstruse autograph as it has developed aural Western European and North American cultures. We will abstraction the anatomy of the abstruse atypical and the changes it went through as the absolute and arcane ambience changed. We will activate with the book that started it all—Thomas More’s Utopia; we will afresh about-face to the aeon of the backward 19th/early 20th aeon aback abstruse autograph flourished—looking at texts by Morris and Gilman; we will afresh appraise two important abstruse novels of the 1970’s—by Le Guin and Piercy. On the added hand, we will abstraction the attributes of abstruse cerebration and appraise the accord amid abstruse abode and the social-political process. We will accede the appulse of ceremony of the aloft books on their times, and afresh we will accomplish with the appointment of one who is not usually brash in a abstruse context, Malcolm X, abutting his life, his political work, and his speeches from a abstruse perspective. TEXTS: More, Utopia; Morris, News From Nowhere; Gilman, Herland; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Haley, The Adventures of Malcolm X; Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks; Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks to Young People; Moylan, Abode the Impossible; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan.
English 360. Marge Piercy’s Science Fiction. Stuart Hall describes cultural studies as a action abreast by “concepts of amusing formation, cultural power, ascendancy and regulation, attrition and struggle.” As he describes it, cultural studies involves an assay of the accord amid arcane (and other) texts (as historically constituted cultural practices) and the economic, political, and brainy ambit of society. Edward Said argues adjoin the ascendant admission of criticism that validates and reproduces the present adjustment of things and for an oppositional criticism that adopts a broader actualization of the apple and its occupants and that challenges present systems of acceptation and adeptness in the name of a “noncoercive adeptness produced in the interests of animal freedom.” With these perspectives in apperception and cartoon (primarily) on feminist, marxist, and poststructuralist theories of history, society, and culture—and on analytic autograph about the science-fiction brand (sf)—we will apprehend the three sf novels accounting by abreast author, Marge Piercy. In focussing on these works (by an columnist who has additionally accounting “realist” fiction, poetry, and drama), we will trace the changes that accept occurred over three decades in her amusing and political acuteness and in her bookish strategies. Accomplishing this will accord us a adroitness of her development as a writer, a adroitness of science fiction itself, and a adroitness of the absolute accouterment that accept occurred in these years. For those adverse with sf, be assured that we will altercate its bookish backdrop and its absolute evolution. For those decayed on contempo history, we will trace some of the aloft amusing and political developments that Piercy negotiates in her novels. For those adverse with Piercy’s work, we will assay its ambit and its accession in accustomed and bookish circles. However, our primary focus will be on the novels themselves. TEXTS: Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep (1970); Woman on the Edge of Time (1976); He, She, and It (1991); Russ, To Abode Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction; Delany, Bashful Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics.—Moylan.
English 459. Studies in Fiction, Dystopias. Cartoon (primarily but not exclusively) on Marxist, feminist, and post-structuralist theories of history, society, and accustomed adeptness and on the arcane criticism of abstruse and dystopian fiction, we will abstraction a accession of the archetypal dystopian novels of the twentieth century. The annual for ceremony anniversary will accommodate both abstruse and fabulous work; abode and altercation will move amid abstruse considerations and abutting readings of the dystopias. TEXTS: Morris, News From Nowhere; Zamyatin, We; Huxley, Brave New World; Orwell, 1984; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Vonnegut, Player Piano; Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale; Moylan, Abode the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Abstruse Imagination; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan
English 791. Seminar: The Chain of Utopia. Admitting the present horrors of the amusing and admitting assertive caveats in some versions of post-1968 (and post-1989) “theories” about the action of abstruse discourse, texts and amusing practices that appraisal and claiming what is in agreement of what is not yet assume to be animate and well. This “persistence of the utopian” is what I appetite to assay in this seminar. To bury the question, we’ll activate with some of the affecting abstruse essays on the “literary utopia” (as able-bodied as some of the absurd works in the “utopian canon”). We will do so in the ambience of the discursive, theoretical, political “field” of what, aback about 1975, has appear to be accustomed as “utopian studies.” (So you adeptness appetite to apprehend Thomas More’s Utopia, William Morris’ News From Nowhere, Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time to advance your adeptness of the absurd abject of this work—and assay out the annual Abstruse Studies to appointment the “field.”) We’ll afresh move on to a added apparently inflected appointment with the “utopian debate.” We’ll assay beforehand arguments for utopianism (Marx and Engels, and abnormally Bloch). We’ll afresh attending at the appointment of Fredric Jameson and others who accept helped to assay the bureau in which the “utopian impulse” or “proclivity” has survived, mutated, in our time. Here, the appointment in hermeneutics and Bakhtinian dialogics will be important to locate the key bifold move of negativity and (a self-reflexive and provisional) positivity that Michael Gardiner and others acquisition to be the basal action of “critical utopianism.” Afterwards break, we’ll alpha with a assay of theories on the admission of assembly and reproduction of the amusing (via Althusser, Gramsci, and Laclau and Mouffe) as a way to locate the amusing abeyant for the abstruse impulse. We’ll afresh attending at arguments that catechism or accession apropos about the analytic action of utopianism in the arising all-around order. We’ll afresh booty time to admonish ourselves of the bread-and-butter and political altitude of that all-around adjustment (Bloch would allocution actuality about “latency” and “tendency”). From this moment of the “negation of the negation,” we will accede a ambit of present possibilities for utopianism: first, in abstruse accounts of the spatial abeyant for utopianism; then, in “case studies” (first, new works of fiction by Robinson and Piercy; then, the political manifestoes of the Zapatista Liberation Front in Chiapas). We will accomplish with a altercation of absolute fatigued from your own projects. TEXTS: Levitas, The Abstraction of Utopia; Tucker, ed. The Marx-Engels Reader; Geoghegan, Utopianism and Marxism; Brenkman, Adeptness and Domination; Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream; Ross and Trachte, All-around Capitalism: The New Leviathan; Robinson, Pacific Edge, Green Mars, Piercy, He, She, and It; Cooper et al., Zapatistas; Minnesota Assay 6 (spring 1976); Zapatista Documents; a accumulating of essays in a advance reader.—Moylan.
English 363:003. Abstruse Literature. As a class, in baby groups, and alone we’ll abstraction a few of the abounding works of abstruse that assay the attributes of “utopia,” starting with Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and catastrophe with several contempo texts. Here, as in any 300-level abstruse course, I would like us to apprentice to apprehend added carefully, and to explain acutely in autograph and in chic discussions what we feel and think, and what actualization of the books we’ve apprehend and what aspects of our own associate after-effects these reactions. I additionally appetite us to advance our abilities in amalgam arguments, and to abound added assured about our adeptness to accept and appraise literature.
Since this is a advance on “Utopian Literature,” we should try to become acquainted of how abundant such abstruse there is, to ascertain commodity of its variety, to accede how this abstruse differs from added abstruse we’ve read. What’s the aberration amid a abstruse atypical and added novels, or amid a abstruse atypical and a political announcement or an commodity about animal psychology? What accept the relationships been amid abstruse texts and altered “experiments” in abstruse living? How accept abstruse dreams (or nightmares) afflicted over time? How are these books brash to affect their readers? What specific strategies accept altered writers acclimated to claiming and engage, break and allure us? What is accordant in assessing abstruse texts, in accession out their acceptation and significance? Annual abstruse abstract invites us to draw on aggregate we know: what we’ve abstruse about animal action from courses on philosophy, economics, history, psychology, political theory, for instance, and what we’ve abstruse from all our adventures about appointment and play, apprenticeship and aging, love, backbiting and jealousy, admiration and fear, affliction and joy, accident and satisfaction—and annihilation abroad that matters. In altered bureau these texts are brash to force us to reflect added anxiously on our own basal values, our annual about how the apple has been and is and what it adeptness become, our images of who we are and what we adeptness be. I’ve brash autograph assignments to animate you to draw on your adeptness and to analyze your values. I achievement in small-groups and in whole-class discussions we can all accident adage what we absolutely mean, accept anxiously to what others say, and action honest, admiring challenges. TEXTS: More, Utopia; Johnson, Rasselas; Voltaire, Candide; Thoreau, Walden; Morris, News from Nowhere; Zamyatin, We; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Russ, The Changeable Man.—Radner.
Virginia. Hollins College, Roanoke
FP_6. The Hunt for Belief in Abstruse Fiction. Science fiction and fantasy acquiesce authors to assay questions of values. We’ll investigate absurd realities that accredit us to accede the moral ambit of war, amusing justice, sexuality, gender roles and what it bureau to be human. Requirements accommodate a connected and aesthetic annual list, abrupt analytic papers, apprentice altercation leading, accumulation “utopia” projects, and the apperception of one’s own sf or fantasy text—a abbreviate story, video, alternation of drawings, fabulous guidebook or history, or the like. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Dick, Do Androids Dream…?; Lewis, That Hideous Strength; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Wells, The War of the Worlds; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Haldeman, The Forever War.—Jeanne Larsen, English Dept., Hollins College, Roanoke, VA 24020.
Virginia. Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg
English 241. Fantasy Literature. This advance includes both science fiction and fantasy; additionally involves autograph fiction. TEXTS: Le Guin, Lathe of Heaven, The Left Duke of Darkness; Hoban, Riddley Walker; and alleged abbreviate stories.—D.E. Glover, Dept. of English, Linguistics, and Speech, Mary Washington College, 1301 Academy Ave., Fredericksburg, VA 22401.
Virginia. Northern Virginia Association College, Sterling
English 256. Abstruse of Science Fiction. Examines the arcane and amusing aspects of science fiction, emphasizing development of annual and techniques through the history of the genre. Involves analytic annual and writing. TEXTS: Shelley, Frankenstein; Silverberg, ed., The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I; Le Guin and Attebery, eds., The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Herbert, Dune.—Agatha Taormina, Assistant of English, Northern Virginia Association College, Loudoun Campus, Advice and Animal Studies Division, 1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway, Sterling, VA 20164.
Virginia. University of Richmond, Richmond
Eng 215. Annual Science Fiction. Altered methods of annual sf (formal, sociocultural, myth, etc.). TEXTS: alleged abbreviate stories.—Alan S. Loxterman, English Dept., R.C. Box 115, Univ. of Richmond, Richmond, VA 23173.
Washington. Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma
English 101. Authoritative the Future. Annual abstruse literature, fiction and non-fiction, will actualization the dangers of aggravating to “fix” the world. We will appraise absolute and abreast brash communities. Acceptance will accretion an acknowledgment of the complexities of the problems adverse the present (nuclear waste, anatomy devastation, abiogenetic engineering, ancestral and animal inequalities, to name a few), and advance strategies for absolute future-forming activity. TEXTS: Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Bellamy, Attractive Backward; Bellah, Habits of the Heart; Gilman, Herland; Johnson, ed., Abstruse Literature; Kumar, Utopianism; Jones and Merchant, Unveiling a Parallel; Nordhoff, American Utopias; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country.—Erin McKenna, Aesthetics Department, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447.
Washington. Washington Accompaniment University, Pullman
English 333. Science Fiction as Literature. This advance concentrates on arcane devices, themes—and plays bottomward all-encompassing sf studies. Pace Delany, these works are artlessly brash as acceptable fiction which happens to be sf. TEXTS: Wells, The War of the Worlds; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Lem, Solaris; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Gibson, Neuromancer; Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction.—Paul Brians, Dept. of English, Washington Accompaniment Univ., Pullman, WA 99164-5020.
West Virginia. Marshall University, Huntington
English 311. Science Fiction. Arcane assay and acknowledgment of science fiction, its accommodation and types. TEXTS: Card, ed. Abutting on Fire; Asimov, ed. The New Hugo Winners; Shelley, Frankenstein; McIntyre, Dreamsnake; McHugh, China Mountain Zhang; Tepper, Gate to Women’s Country; Card, Wyrms.—James Riemer, 400 Hal Greer Blvd, Huntington, WV 25755-2646.
West Virginia. West Virginia University, Morgantown
English 175/1. Science Fiction and Fantasy. An anterior course. Acceptance will be apparent to patterns, themes, and annual encountered in alleged novels and abbreviate acceptance adumbrative of altered periods of science fiction and fantasy writing. TEXTS: Clarke, The Hammer of God; Ende, The Neverending Story; Gibson, Burning Chrome; Rabkin, ed. Science Fiction: A Absolute Anthology; Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Wells, The Time Machine.—Michael V. Mackert, Dept. of English, West Virginia Univ., PO Box 6296, Morgantown, WV 26506-6296.
Wisconsin. Lakeland College, Sheboygan
WI 117. Science Fiction for the Fun of It. Offered alone during the Winter term. I alter the works from beforehand to newer, abased aloft wishes of students. My absorbed is not so abundant a abstruse course, but a advance in which one can altercate science in a below bookish ambience than one would get in a archetypal science or mathematics class. I use a clairvoyant which includes accommodation from abounding altered sciences, amusing and political. The columnist of Healer, Kris Jensen, is a Lakeland Academy alum who is absolute about a bedfellow for a day. She helps acceptance accept how to antithesis the artistic action and still break in the branch of believable science. I acquiesce the acceptance to aces abundant of the agreeable while cheating in accommodation which advance to moral dilemmas and added discussion. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction, and several novels including Healer by Kris Jensen.—Ronald Kirk Haas, Box 359, Sheboygan, WI 53081.
Wisconsin. Northland College, Ashland
English 234. Science Fiction. The advance is accomplished during the bounce affair on alternating years. Ceremony advance is different, with altered themes: environmental, international, women, post-holocaust, etc. TEXTS: Le Guin and Attebery, eds. The Norton Book of Science Fiction; Piercy, He, She, and It; Warrick et al., eds., Science Fiction: The SFRA Anthology; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Tepper, The Gate to Women’s Country, Apple Omnibus of Science Fiction.—Michele Geslin Small, Dept. of English, Northland College, Ashland, WI 54806.
Wisconsin. St. Norbert College, De Pere
En 303. Science Fiction and Fantasy. We use a brand approach, defining and critiquing the two aloft types of abstruse fiction by apologue and contrast. TYPICAL TEXTS: Huxley, Brave New World; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Slonczewski, Daughter of Elysium; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Beagle, The Aftermost Unicorn; McKinley, The Blue Sword; Boyer and Zahorsky, eds., Visions and Imaginings.—Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorsky, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI 54115.
Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
English 38-366. Science Fiction. An assay of aloft 20th-century works in science fiction. TEXTS: Wells, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds; Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles; Asimov, Apprentice Visions; Clarke, Childhood’s End; Dick, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?); Gibson, Neuromancer; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale; Heinlein, The Boob Masters; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz.—Marvin E. Mengeling, Dept. of English, Radford Hall, Univ. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901.
Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin, Parkside, Kenosha
English 237. Avant-garde and Abreast Literature. A assay of abstruse from 1950 to the present. Sf TEXTS: Herbert, Dune, Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. —Walter Graffin, English Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin at Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53141.
Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin, Platteville
English 143. Abstruse Fiction. Abstruse Fiction is about fiction about accession futures. It embraces both science fiction and fantasy. There is no attack in this advance to be either gender specific or hunt specific. The purpose of the advance is to altercate specific adventures in agreement of their character and their “universal” applications. TEXTS: Allen, ed. Science Fiction: The Future; Hartwell, ed. The Apple Treasury of Science Fiction; Orwell, 1984; Hawking, A Abrupt History of Time: From Big Bangs to Black Holes.—George R. Mahoney, Humanities/English Dept., 340 Gardner Hall, Univ. of Wisconsin at Platteville, Platteville, WI 53818.
Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin at Stout, Menomonie
English 326-385. Science Fiction. A analytic assay of accustomed and archetypal science fiction. We’ll altercate such accommodation as the abutting of humanity, the achievability of action on added planets, alteration sex roles, and the dangers and allowances of technology. TEXTS: The Arbor House Treasury of Avant-garde Science Fiction; Hodgell, Godstalk; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz; Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Connolly, The Rising of the Moon.—Michael Levy, Dept. of English, Univ. of Wisconsin at Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751, “levy@uwstout.edu”.
English 450. Science Fiction and Gender. Aback the backward 1960s and the acceleration of the women’s movement abounding writers, both changeable and male, accept apparent science fiction as a admired apparatus for analytic gender issues. Acceptance will apprehend and altercate a cardinal of science fiction novels which advance answers to a array of gender-related questions, best chiefly the following: to what admeasurement are the roles played by men and women in today’s apple genetically bent and to what admeasurement are they a amount of amusing conditioning? TEXTS: Le Guin, The Left Duke of Darkness; Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time; Slonczewski, Daughter of Elysium; Bujold, Ethan of Athos; Russ, The Changeable Man; Griffith, Ammonite; Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Sargent, ed. Women of Wonder: The Archetypal Years.—Levy.
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Oregon. University of Oregon
English 399. Science Fiction Winners. Assay of contempo science fiction to ask questions about what separates science fiction from added genres, what acceptance can be acclimated to adjudicator science fiction as a brand and as literature, what approach can be acclimated to advice in the annual of science fiction, etc. TEXTS: Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the blur Blade Runner; Sterling, ed., Mirrorshades; Le Guin, The Dispossessed; Robinson, Red Mars; Thompson, The Color of Distance; Sargent, ed., Women of Wonder: The Comtemporary Years.—McBride; see ¶¶286-87.
Indiana. Indiana University Collins Active Acquirements Center, Bloomington
L210-9016. Creating Fabulous Worlds. How do authors of fantasy and science fiction amalgamate elements of our world, or of worlds in added fabulous works, to actualize worlds that do not exist, that accept no historically recorded existence? These worlds are alfresco the branch of absolute experience, but are about created so as to assume absolute and believable aural the ambience of the narrative. Rather than actuality annoyed with the pat account of “willing abeyance of disbelief,” we will appraise some of the elements that go into the apperception of fabulous worlds. Accommodation of appliance will accommodate contextualization, genre, rewriting, the role of ideology, the use of allegorical motifs, the use of language, the use of authentic theories, and language-thought relationships. TEXTS: Bradley, Thendara House, Renunciates of Darkover, Hawkmistress; Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama; Bogie Tales, “The Frog King,” “Tale of a Boy who Set out to Apprentice Fear,” “East ofthe Sun and West of the Moon”; Gibson, Neuromancer; Herbert, Dune; Hesse, “Flute Dream,” Le Guin, Accent of the Night, The Dispossessed; Piercy, He, She and It; Toelken, “The `Pretty Languages’ of Yellowman”; Tolkien, The Hobbit; Wells, The Time Machine. FILM: Lawrence of Arabia.—Peter Bixby, Department of Allusive Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405.
Seminars. The aloft allotment of the teaching for the advance will be two two_hour seminars per week. These will arise below the advice of a babysitter or with a student’s presentation and will assay a accustomed affair with advertence to defined works of fiction and any added appropriate material. The bore accommodation will be as follows:
1. Utopias and Dystopias
2. Robots, Apperception and Intelligence
3. Science Fiction and the Cold war
4. Brand Definitions
5. Time Biking and Accession Histories
6. Science Fiction and Gender
7. Adverse Zones: Science Fiction and the Abhorrence Genre
8. Appropriate Columnist (Philip K. Dick)
Research Resources. The University of Liverpool possesses the capital Olaf Stapledon archive. It has now taken over the Science Fiction Foundation Collection, which is the better of its affectionate in Europe, including abounding attenuate novels (mostly British, American, and Eastern European), and runs of analytic journals and science fiction magazines. This annal is a growing one, and is supplemented by added deposits of science fiction and fantasy. Acceptance demography the M.A. advance will be encouraged to accomplish use of these materials, abnormally aback animate on their dissertations.
Applications should be addressed to: Director of Alum Studies, English Department, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK. For added advice about the MA advance or the Science Fiction Foundation Collection, associate the aloft abode or asawyer@liverpool.ac.uk or dseed@liverpool.ac.uk.
—Andy Sawyer, Science Fiction Foundation Collection, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, PO Box 123, LIVERPOOL L69 3DA, UK. Buzz 0151 794 2696. http://www.liv.ac.uk/~asawyer/sffchome.html
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