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Literature in Focus: Environmental Science Fiction (2024/2025: periode 4)
Cursusdoel
After completing the course, students are able to
Relation learning goals to assessments
Reading response – 1, 2, 3
Creative assignment – 2, 3
Presentation – 1, 2, 3
Final research paper - 1, 2, 3, 4
- gain an overview of the current trends in popular culture towards environmental themes and aesthetics
- learn how to analyze literary and cinematic science fiction from different disciplinary angles
- use science fiction narratives to reflect on the relationship between humans, nonhumans, and the natural world
- develop an independent research project in the form of a final research paper
Relation learning goals to assessments
Reading response – 1, 2, 3
Creative assignment – 2, 3
Presentation – 1, 2, 3
Final research paper - 1, 2, 3, 4
Vakinhoudelijk
The course offers a thematic case study, that changes every year. This offers students the chance to get acquainted with classical and canonical works more in depth, learning how to do close reading as well as placing the text in its historical context. Students also explore different forms of critical receptions and evaluation through time, disciplinary contexts and scholarly traditions.
Summer 2025 topic: Environmental Science Fiction
In this course we will discuss works of literary and cinematic science fiction that explore the constructive, mutual relationship between humans and their changing environments. Whereas science fiction has mostly focused on technology, in an age of climate change we are witnessing the emergence of different, environmental science fiction narratives. These narratives show that we are human not just by virtue of being part of culture, but also in relation to the biological and physical bodies that compose our environments on all scales (notably, the human body is itself an environment for microbial life). In such stories, the environment is not merely a “background” to human action; rather, it is constitutive of the human. As scholars in environmental studies have argued, environmental fiction is important in making the often abstract complexity of environmental change imaginable—a prerequisite for moving toward more sustainable societies.
Alongside science fiction, we will read key theoretical texts from across the disciplines that discuss the topic of human-environment entanglement (e.g. theories of science fiction, posthumanism, symbiosis). Participants from any discipline will be encouraged to develop their own perspectives on the intersection of humanity, culture, and the environment in the twenty-first century, and to do so in a creative format.
Format
Summer 2025 topic: Environmental Science Fiction
In this course we will discuss works of literary and cinematic science fiction that explore the constructive, mutual relationship between humans and their changing environments. Whereas science fiction has mostly focused on technology, in an age of climate change we are witnessing the emergence of different, environmental science fiction narratives. These narratives show that we are human not just by virtue of being part of culture, but also in relation to the biological and physical bodies that compose our environments on all scales (notably, the human body is itself an environment for microbial life). In such stories, the environment is not merely a “background” to human action; rather, it is constitutive of the human. As scholars in environmental studies have argued, environmental fiction is important in making the often abstract complexity of environmental change imaginable—a prerequisite for moving toward more sustainable societies.
Alongside science fiction, we will read key theoretical texts from across the disciplines that discuss the topic of human-environment entanglement (e.g. theories of science fiction, posthumanism, symbiosis). Participants from any discipline will be encouraged to develop their own perspectives on the intersection of humanity, culture, and the environment in the twenty-first century, and to do so in a creative format.
Format
Instructional formats include short lectures, class discussions, groupwork, presentations, short reading responses, a creative assignment, and a research essay.
Contact hours:
Tuesdays: 11AM - 3PM
Wednesdays: 10AM - 2PM
Thursdays: 10AM - 2PM
Tuesdays: 11AM - 3PM
Wednesdays: 10AM - 2PM
Thursdays: 10AM - 2PM
Werkvormen
UCU HUM 2 course
Toetsing
Creative assignment
Verplicht | Weging 10% | ECTS 0,75
Final research paper
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
Reading responses
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Presentation
Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.
Voorkennis
Recommended courses: [UCHUMLIT11] Introduction to Literature or [UCHUMMES11] Intro to Comparative Media Studies.
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Academisch schrijven
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Interdisciplinariteit
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Kritisch lezen
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Onderzoeksvaardigheden
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Presenteren
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de verplichte literatuur bekend
Aanbevolen materiaal
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DIVERSESecondary articles about the primary and theoretical texts
Opmerkingen
Topic of course changes every few years
Coördinator
| dr. S.P. van Bommel | s.p.vanBommel@uu.nl |
Docenten
| dr. M. Tabur | m.tabur@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
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