Fall 2024 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1126 section 001

READING THE FUTURE

Call Number 00203
Day & Time
Location
MW 4:10pm-5:25pm
403 Barnard Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Michael Shelichach
Type LECTURE
Course Description

How do we think about the future? Why do we develop the hopes and fears that we do? How do present conditions and discourses inform, influence, or limit our senses of personal and political possibility? In this section of First-Year Writing, we will explore conceptions of the future in 19th through 21st-century literary fiction. We will begin by close reading 20th-century short stories that evoke hopes and fears for the future on individual, social, and global scales. We will then turn to H.G. Wells’ classic novella The Time Machine and place its portrayal of the future in the context of late Victorian science and socioeconomics. Finally, we will consider how contemporary literature reflects and responds to the accelerating climate crisis, and explore fiction’s role in helping us apprehend the potential for radical environmental disruption.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 16 students (15 max) as of 11:06AM Friday, December 6, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1126
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20243FYWB1126X001