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Women's & Gender Studies (WGS)
315 Hendricks, 541-346-5529
College of Arts and Sciences
Course Data
  WGS 510   Spec/Sci Fict of Color 4.00 cr.
Repeatable.
Grading Options: Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor: Chang EHomepage
Office Hours: 1400 - 1530 MW Or by appointment.
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes
  25947 7 10 1200-1320 tr 246 GER Chang E  

Final Exam:

0800-1000 m 3/20 246 GER
Academic Deadlines
Deadline     Last day to:
January 8:   Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
January 15:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded)
January 15:   Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded)
January 16:   Drop this course (75% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
January 16:   Process a complete drop (75% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
January 18:   Add this course
January 18:   Last day to change to or from audit
January 22:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
January 29:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
February 5:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
February 26:   Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
February 26:   Change grading option for this course
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Expanded Course Description
Speculative & Science Fictions of Color

Sheree Thomas, editor of the collection Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, said, "The science fiction and fantasy genres have always offered readers, bold, extraordinary ways by which to examine society. The results have often been visionary, with writers acting as unflinching voyeurs who deliver engaging, sometimes scathing critiques of our traditions, values, nightmares, and dreams." Similarly, Betsy Huang argues in Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Literature that "science fiction affords Asian American writers a unique way to engage in subversive political and ideological critique not by contravening genre conventions, but by using them to rewrite the rules of the genre.” Our course will engage speculative and science fictions of color as political and vernacular theory, as strategies for thinking critically about the past, present, and future in order to imagine what this world (and beyond) would be like under different conditions and configurations of race, gender, sexuality, ability, and other formations. We will survey and explore the intersections of literature, genre, bodies, media, and technology with particular attention to African American, Asian American, and other writers.

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