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 ¿ The Drowned World (1962) Week 5: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ¿ Hard To Be A God (1964) Week 6: Ursula Le Guin ¿ 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
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: ¿ demonstrate a working knowledge of the vocabulary and narrative conventions of science fiction; ¿ discuss the history of science fiction, its cultural and political context, and of contemporary developments in the field; ¿ read actively rather than passively.