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AMER 478

Science Fiction in American Culture

Science fiction here is treated less as escapism and more as a cultural seismograph — a genre that registers American anxieties about technology, identity, and the future in ways "serious" literature often can't. You'll work primarily with films alongside literary texts, writing a sequence of short essays plus a final paper that push you to read cyborgs, dystopias, and alien Others as arguments about race, gender, class, ecology, and what counts as human. It pairs naturally with the department's other cultural-studies electives, and the analytic moves you practice here — decoding popular texts for ideology — transfer directly to any course that takes mass culture seriously.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümAmerican Culture and Literature

Değerlendirme 100% — 5 adım

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In-class participation Active Participation 20%
Essay Essay and Expertise on One Reading, Film Response Papers, Piece of fanfiction 60%
Final Final Essay 20%

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
Week 1: Introduction/What Is Science Fiction?
Hafta 2
Week 2: Cultural Theory and Sci Fi Cinema/The philosophy of Science Fiction
Hafta 3
Week 3: God, Nature, and Technology/Technophobia
Hafta 4
Week 4: Cyborgs and the Nature of Humanity
Hafta 5
Week 5: Technostalgia/The Machine Stops
Hafta 6
Weeks 6: Ecocritical SF
Hafta 7
Weeks 7: The City and the Garden
Hafta 8
Week 8: Dystopia and the Future City
Hafta 9
Week 9: Women in SF
Hafta 10
Week 10: Masculinity/Alternative Genders
Hafta 11
Week 11: Queering Science Fiction
Hafta 12
Week 12: Race and Class in SF
Hafta 13
Week 13: The Alien Other: Monster and Messiah
Hafta 14
Week 14: Science Fiction Fandom

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Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment After completing this course, students should be able to • Formulate and describe characteristics of science fiction as illustrated through film and through concepts such as human nature, technology, inequitable distribution of wealth and power, xenophobia, gender, race, and class Active Participation Film Response Papers Final Essay Interrogate developing and evolving ideologies as articulated through science fiction Active Participat

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