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CRWN 80F - 01   Science Fictions

2023 Summer Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
Grading
Student Option
Class Number
70132
Type
Seminar
Instruction Mode
In Person
Credits
5 units
General Education
TA
Status
Open
Available Seats
11
Enrollment Capacity
30
Enrolled
19
Wait List Capacity
0
Wait List Total
0

Description

Examines how science fictions have imagined better and worse worlds, social relations, and identities by using science and technology. Students read novels and short stories from the 19th Century to the present and discuss and debate questions of justice, freedom, difference, and identity. (Formerly "Seminar in Science Fiction.")

Enrollment Requirements

Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing requirement.

Class Notes

Visiting Students - prerequisite review is waived in summer - email summer@ucsc.edu for a permission number to enroll. No matter what type of science fiction and fantasy appeals to you, please join us and bring your passions! The red pill or the blue pill? We are going to read wonderful stories, watch some of the greatest films ever made, and, if you like, part of your work for the class can be creating a sci-fi story or film yourself.

Meeting Information

Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
TuTh 06:00PM-09:30PM J Baskin Engr 156 Farquhar,D.N. 06/26/23 - 07/28/23
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