Love science fiction? Check out new course being offered
Interested in science fiction? Ever wondered about how people in the past imagined the future? Then HIST 485: The Past of the Future may be for you.
HIST 485: The Past of the Future is a cultural history of science fiction in which students explore the artifacts of science fiction genre (short stories, novels, pulp fiction, radio shows, film, graphic novels, games, music, and TV shows) and consider their place in the historical context in which they were produced.
We’ll engage a variety of these throughout the semester with possible science fiction “artifacts,” including Voltaire’s Micromégas, Shelley’s Frankenstein, Hawthorne’s Rappacini’s Daughter, Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues, H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, A Trip to the Moon (the first sci-fi movie), comics such as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the War the the Worlds radio show, Godzilla (original film, 1954), the original Star Trek, David Bowie’s Space Oddity, Afrofuturism, and lots more!
If you have questions about this class, please contact Paul Otto at potto@georgefox.edu.