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Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.
This module explores the genre of science fiction across a range of texts in various media (literature, film, TV, graphic novels, interactive narratives, etc) and across a range of historical and contemporary cultural contexts.
By exploring the ways that the genre has been formed through diverse representations of science, technology, progress, future and past, you will study how sci-fi has survived many mutations itself: from the radiated adventurers of superhero fiction to the clockwork mechanisms of steampunk. Subjects you will be able to evaluate as we consider some of the movement’s most significant works include science fiction as allegory and satire, utopias and dystopias, posthumanism, the monstrous, race, and gender.
Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Cohort
Screening
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Cohort
Workshop
Hours: 15
Intended Group Size: Cohort
Guided independent study
Hours: 115
Further details relating to assessment
Students will complete an essay of 3,000 words focusing on the topics covered in the module. The essay identifies and critically studies selected themes and topics in science fiction. Critical attention to the instantiation of these themes and topics in particular works is emphasised.
Early Assessment: there will be a formative assessment within the first 4 weeks and this will help unpack the assignment details for the 1st assignment as well as guide and inform student preparation and help introduce the University grading system.
001 Essay; 3,000 words; mid-March 100%
Module Coordinator - Robbie McAllister
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S2