Science Fiction
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4399 | English | 4 | N/A | April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK |
- Code
- ENGL4399
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- N/A
- Semesters
- April Full Year UK, Full Year UK, January Full Year UK
Summary
This pod introduces and explores what has been called the defining genre of the twentieth century, Science Fiction. Taking H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romances of the 1890s as a starting point, it traces the development of the genre through the rise of the pulp magazines in the interwar years, the golden age of the 1940s and 50s, the New Wave of the 1960s and 70s, and on to the contemporary diversification and cultural prevalence of this way of seeing the world through possible futures and alternative presents.
Target Students
Students registered on the School of English online masters scheme.
Assessment
- 100% Participation: Student participation
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
This module comprises an optional component in the following pathways: Applied English, English Literature, and Modern and Contemporary Literature. As such, it contributes in its specific aims to the programme-level coverage of these pathways.Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the genre of Science Fiction, its history and formal characteristics.
Conduct literary analysis of Science Fiction texts, showing how specific features can be related to generic conventions.
Understand how Science Fiction texts relate to the contexts in which they were produced.
Demonstrate knowledge and skills acquired to the appropriate disciplinary and professional standard.
Assimilate and present subject-specific material in an appropriate format (assessed within the ‘Assessment Portfolio’ 1, 2 or 3).