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ENG235

Climate Fiction

Subject code

ENG

Course Number

235

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

T. Harper

Course Long Title

Climate Fiction

Cross Listed Courses

Description

This course examines representations of climate change in contemporary literature, comics, and film. Working with materials from a variety of world regions and cultural traditions, students consider the emerging genre of "climate fiction" in relation to a larger and longer history of environmental fiction. They grapple with the form, function, and limits of climate fiction as a discourse. Is cli-fi a kind of science fiction? A new mode of realism? A new form of activism of pedagogy? A genre of Anthropocene fiction? Or something else entirely? Prerequisite(s): ENVR 205 or one 100-level English course.

Writing Credit

No writing credit

Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements

(English: Post-1800)

INDS Program Relationship

IDES - ENVR Program

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years