ENGL2076 — Climate Fiction: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 2076 - Climate Fiction: Introduction to Literary Studies ENGL 2076 - Climate Fiction: Introduction to Literary Studies Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students focuses on the analysis and exploration of climate fiction, also known as Cli-Fi. This genre includes both realistic present-day fiction and speculative fiction about humans’ impact on climate and environment and climate’s impact on humans, in other words life in the Anthropocene, the epoch characterized by the impact of human activities on the earth. Realistic, dystopian, and visionary elements will be explored. Authors may include Margaret Atwood, Paulo Bacigalupi, Octavia Butler, Amitav Ghosh, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Karen Russell. MnTC Goals Goal 6: The Humanities and Fine Arts Goal 10: People and the Environment Major Content Characteristics of climate fiction genre: novel and short story forms, realism, science fiction, magical realism, dystopia, speculation Applicable literary critical approaches to climate fiction, particularly eco-criticism and tropes therein Social, political, cultural values in the Anthropocene Environmental conditions in the Anthropocene Adaptations to changes in interrelationships of bio-cultural and social-cultural systems as expressed in climate fiction Using secondary sources Learning
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052