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SY2030:03

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Popular Culture

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Staff:

Dr M Bendle.

Through the mediation of popular film and television programs, science fiction and fantasy reach enormous audiences. This subject offers students the means to analyse these increasingly important aspects of their cultural experience with theoretical depth and sophistication.

Learning Objectives:

supply theoretical and methodological tools for an ongoing competence in ideological analysis and interrogation of popular cultural narratives;

provide practical experience in theoretical analysis of popular cultural phenomena;

offer students in literary courses an opportunity to explore popular fictional genres within a framework of social and cultural analysis;

offer social science students exposure to material from popular fictional genres and the means to analyse them;

offer other students from other faculties experience with a range of approaches to the study of popular culture, focussing on two influential areas attractive to many students.

Assessment by seminar participation (20%); major essay (40%); open book examination (40%).