Undergraduate Course: Exploring Science Fiction (LLLG07011)

Course Outline
School	Centre for Open Learning	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Science fiction is a rich and exciting genre that uses the development and inventions of science and new technology to explore fundamental questions regarding what it means to be human. This course explores a number of great works of science fiction across the 20th century, using literature as a starting point for wider discussions about society. Authors include H.G Wells, Ursula le Guin, Isaac Asimov and Dorris Lessing.
Course description	Week 1: Introduction to Science Fiction Week 2: Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932) Week 3: Stanislav Lem - Solaris (1961) Week 4: J.G. Ballard ż The Drowned World (1962) Week 5: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ż Hard To Be A God (1964) Week 6: Ursula Le Guin ż The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) Week 7: D. G. Compton - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (1974) Week 8: Doris Lessing - Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) Week 9: Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) Week 10: P. D. James - The Children of Men (1995)

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 16
Course Start	Lifelong Learning - Session 2
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Open Studies 10 credit courses have one assessment. Normally, the assessment is a 2000 word essay, worth 100% of the total mark, submitted by week 12. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 40%. There are a small number of exceptions to this model which are identified in the Studying for Credit Guide.
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: ż demonstrate a working knowledge of the vocabulary and narrative conventions of science fiction; ż discuss the history of science fiction, its cultural and political context, and of contemporary developments in the field; ż read actively rather than passively.