0504-482 - Science Fiction

Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course provides a selective survey of science fiction from its antecedents to its foundational texts, and through many of its developments in the 20th and even 21st centuries. With a variety of authors who exhibit varying intentions and effects, the course approaches these texts as literary form, as cultural artifact, as philosophical speculation, and as scientific and technological imaginary. Part of writing studies concentration and minor, the literary and cultural studies minor, and the science writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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