Past Course Offerings

View a full list of course offerings and titles that contain SF and speculative fiction content. (Listed by department, alphabetically.)

Astronomy Courses

  • ASTR 191: Contemporary Astronomy
  • ASTR 394: Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

English Courses

  • ENGL 101: Composition in Dystopia
  • ENGL 177: Science, Storytelling, & the Human
  • ENGL 203: Intro to Science Fiction
  • ENGL 203: Science Fiction & Popular Media
  • ENGL 203: Defining Horror
  • ENGL 203: Science Fiction as Social Commentary
  • ENGL 301: Arthurian Myth
  • ENGL 329: Fan Fiction (Topic)
  • ENGL 329: Vampire Literature in the African Diaspora (Topic)
  • ENGL 329: Speculative Fiction (Topic)
  • ENGL 329: Fanfiction (Topic)
  • ENGL 506: The Science Fiction Short Story
  • ENGL 507: Science, Technology, and Society
  • ENGL 508: Animal Studies
  • ENGL 565: The Gothic Tradition
  • ENGL 574: Black Speculative Fiction
  • ENGL 655: Victorian Fantasy
  • ENGL 690: Black Speculative Fiction (Topic)
  • ENGL 690: The Science Fiction Short Story (Topic)
  • ENGL 709: Animal Studies
  • ENGL 756: Experimental Fiction
  • ENGL 757: Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop
  • ENGL 774: Vampires in the African Diaspora
  • ENGL 774: Black Speculative Fiction
  • ENGL 790: Fantasy and the Medieval Imagination
  • ENGL 908: Science and Technology Studies
  • ENGL 960: Fin-de-Siecle Tech

Environmental Studies Courses

  • EVRN 177: Apocalypse Now? Imagining Environmental Disaster in Climate Fiction
  • EVRN 377: Global Perspectives in Climate Change Literature
  • EVRN 420: Disasters and Literature

French Courses

  • FREN 150: Zombies, Aliens, Monsters 
  • FREN 177: Human and non-Human in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • FREN 177: Subversive Science Fiction
  • FREN 481: Science Fiction and Fantasy in French
  • FREN 800: Science Fiction and Fantasy in French

Journalism Courses

  • JOUR 201: Current Issues in Journalism (Emphasis: Creativity 101 w/ Belmas)

Philosophy Courses

  • PHIL 325: The Philosophy of Computation, AI, and Robots 

Slavic Language and Literature Courses

  • SLAV 152: Robots, Rockets, Radios: Progress and Technology in 20th-Century Slavic Literatures 
  • SLAV 572: Russian and East European Science Fiction
  • SLAV 576: Post-Soviet Russian Literature (w/ Chernetsy, significant amount of SF)
  • SLAV 767: Post-Sovier Russian Literature (w/ Chernetsy, significant amount of SF)
  • SLAV 772: Russia and East European Science Fiction

Spanish Courses

  • SPAN 440: Iberian and Latin American Science-Fiction