ENGL 191 explores Science Fiction not only as a literary genre, but also as a means of how humans make sense of the world. Through analysis and discussion of texts students will engage with how Science Fiction provides a space for us to analyze and comment upon world events, popular culture, dis/ability, gender, sexuality, race, and identity. Additionally, Science Fiction serves as an excellent genre within which to ask (and answer) the question of “What does it mean to be human?” -- a question that becomes more relevant as we hurtle through a digital age of AI, bioengineering, and metaverses.
Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL15) an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. Thus, in this course, we will focus specifically on analyzing verbal and visual texts (our reading) as well as on producing such texts (our writing), always in terms of rhetorical principles. ENGL 15 fulfills 3 credits of the writing and speaking requirement for general education.