The Syllabus
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Winter InterSessions and Summer Sessions See Below |
Regular Semester Sessions
WEEK 1: FIRST LECTURE. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
WEEK 2: Frankenstein (continued) - Mary Shelley
WEEK 3: From the Earth To the Moon (but not Around the Moon) - Jules Verne
WEEK 4: The Time Machine - H. G. Wells.
Readings from
The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction
WEEK 5: SECOND LECTURE Stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Bierce
WEEK 6: Stories by Verne, Wells, Pollack, Forster - The Lost World - Doyle
WEEK 7: Stories by Kipling, London, Lovecraft - FIRST PAPER DUE
Readings from the Alternative Copy Shop Anthology
WEEK 8: THIRD LECTURE - "Fessenden's Worlds" - Edmund Hamilton (1937), "Who Goes There?" - John W. Campbell, Jr. (1938)
WEEK 9: "They" - Robert A. Heinlein (1941); "Nightfall" - Isaac Asimov (1941)
WEEK 10: "The Weapon Shop" - A. E. Van Vogt (1942); "That Only a Mother", Judith Merril (1948)
WEEK 11: FOURTH LECTURE. "The Nine- Billion Names of God" - Arthur C. Clarke (1953); "It's a Good Life" - Jerome Bixby (1953)
WEEK 12: "The Cold Equations" - Tom Godwin (1954); "Fondly Fahrenheit" - Alfred Bester (1954)
WEEK 13: FIFTH LECTURE. "Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keyes (1959);"Harrison Bergeron" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1961); "Come Into My Cellar" - Bradbury
WEEK 14: (1966). "The Great Slow Kings" - Roger Zelazny (1963); "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" - Philip K. Dick (1966)
WEEK 15: ; "Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" - Harlan Ellison (1967); "When it Changed", Joanna Russ (1972). SECOND PAPER DUE
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Winter InterSession Syllabus
First Week: Read Lectures One and Two. The novel, THE TIME MACHINE ; Stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce.
Second Week: Read Lectures Three and Four. Stories by London, Lovecraft; the novel, THE LOST WORLD ; "Fessenden's Worlds", "Who Goes There", "They", "That Only A Mother".
Third Week: Read Lecture Five. Stories: "The Nine Billion Names of God", "It's a Good Life", "The Cold Equations", "Flowers For Algernon", "Harrison Bergeron","We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", "Repent, Harlequin!', Said the Ticktockman" PAPER DUE.
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Summer Session Syllabus
(For Either Summer Session)
First Week: Read Lecture One. The Novel: Frankenstein . Read stories from the Phoenix Pick Anthology: Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce.
Second Week: Read: The Time Machine. Read: Lecture Two. Read the rest of the Phoenix Pick Anthology. From the Alternative Copy Shop anthology, read: "Fessenden's Worlds", "Who Goes There?" "They".
Third Week: Read Lecture Three. Read: The Lost World; "Nightfall", "The Weapon Shop", "That Only A Mother".
Fourth Week: Read Lecture Four. "The Nine Billion Names of God", "It's a Good Life", "The Cold Equations", "Fondly Fahrenheit", "Flowers for Algernon".
Fifth Week: Read Lecture Five. "Harrison Bergeron", "Come Into My Cellar", "The Great Slow Kings", "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale", "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman", "When it Changed". PAPER DUE.