SLAV 0660 - SCI-FI: EAST AND WEST

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course compares Slavic and Anglophone science fiction to assess how a given culture's dominant values are articulated in a popular genre that enjoys different status in East and West. Those values emerge in works that imaginatively posit "fantastic" situations rooted in biological, spatial, and temporal explorations beyond those verified by science. On the basis of films, film clips, TV shows, stories, novellas, and novels we shall discuss such topics as utopia, progress, human perfectibility, the limits of science, and the nature of knowledge.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., West European Studies

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