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LITPA-2000-3: The Future is Now! Reading Science Fiction

Fall 2022

Subject: Literary and Performing Arts Studies
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: August 31, 2022 — December 13, 2022
Meetings: Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 151
Instructor: Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 14/15

Description:

LITPA 200 courses introduce students to the study of literature or the performing arts, emphasizing analysis of both particular works and of the range of genres, periods and traditions. Frequent reading and writing assignments will be made.Artificial Intelligence, climate change, robotics, the unraveling of the human genome, virtual reality: if it feels like we are living in a science fictional universe, perhaps it’s because we are. Want to know what might happen next? In this class we’ll find out by examining science fiction from the 21st century: stories, films, television and comics. As we plunge deeper into what the future might hold, we’ll also gain perspective on the here and now, tools to understand our world.

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