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| Semester: | Fall 2024 |
| Number: | 0122-245-001 |
| Instructor: | Kelly Swartz |
| Days: | Monday Wednesday 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Harvey Hall 111 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students will study how science informs past and present science fiction, and how and why imaginative works react to science. Students will use cultural, ethical, and sociological accounts of science to analyze how literature represents, resists, and/or extends scientific thought and practice by considering race, gender, technology, and environment. (Distribution Reqs:Humanities) |
| Learning Goals: |
Students will: 1. Define key concepts within the subdiscipline of “literature and science,” such as literary humanism, posthumanism, the “two cultures” debate, the environmental humanities, the social construction of scientific fact, and scientific racism.2. Examine how these fundamental concepts apply to literary works, films, and other cultural productions. 3. Analyze how literary texts and other cultural artifacts represent, promote, revise, and/or resist scientific concepts and practices on various grounds.4. Analyze how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, belief, and other forms of social differentiation influence past and present institutions of science, literary study, and the divisions developed between them. 5. Formulate thesis-driven, motivated arguments supported by well-analyzed evidence. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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