ENG235
Climate Fiction
English
BC
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