I Think I’m Going Back To College Now
April 11, 2008 by brian
That revelation is due largely to a university offering a course I can get behind. Arizona Western College will offer English 220, a science fiction class, for the first time this fall.
Instructor Ed Schubert will emphasize “proto-science fiction” — works of early English literature that dealt with science fiction concepts before any such term got coined.
He selected classic texts as preferred by the college’s English department but also because “I think it will be more interesting for students to see how old some science fiction ideas really are.”
Pre-20th century works covered in the class include Sir Thomas Moore’s “Utopia,” published in 1516; Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” published in 1726; Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” 1831; and H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” 1895.
He said the class will study contemporary science fiction too. It will be a transferrable, general education course with texts costing about $10. For more information about the class, contact edward.schubert@azwestern.edu.
Ten dollar text is reason enough to take the class. Anybody else tired of paying $100s of bucks for Shakespeare text as if he’s written something new lately?
As a professor at fully accredited Arizona Western College, I want to add that AWC has some of the most reasonable tuition rates I’ve ever seen.
Many of our classes are online and the first six units a semester are offered with in-state rates no matter where you live.
can you take this online? GO MATADORS
Thanks for your interest! ENG 220 — Science Fiction — will be a traditional class for its debut in Fall, but on-line is a definate possibility for the future. We are also looking at the possibility of matter transporters.