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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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LITE 241 - Science Fiction 3 CR
An exploration of the background, major themes and types, authors, and influences of science fiction. The goal is to become acquainted with the inter-relationship between science fiction as an art form and the cultures from which it develops as a mode of perceiving and defining reality.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop an understanding of the nature of speculative fiction in general and science-fiction specifically.
- Acquire an understanding of the genre as presenting a critique, often ironic, of social conditions, trends, fads on a local and global scale.
- Explore the nature and limits of how reality is defined/perceived.
- Recognize the scope and range of science fiction literature.
- Explore the impact/influences of media on the science fiction genre.
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