MFC6005 - Science Fiction

Objectives:

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.

Content:

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.

Learning and Teaching Information:

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 either an essay, short story or script of 2,500 words focusing on the topics covered in the module. This submission will identify specific themes and topics in the science fiction genre. Either through critical evaluation (essay) or creative practice (short story / script), this assessment will showcase student engagement with the themes and topics covered in the module.

Assessment:

001 Essay, short stroy or script; 2,500 words; end of semester 2 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Robbie McAllister
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S2

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