Sci Fi Studies
The Science Fiction Studies (SFS) minor is for students who are interested in learning how people communicate the experience of science and technology across centuries, continents, and cultures. The SFS minor enhances students’ ability to engage with issues of science, technology, and society as they are represented in the premiere story form of an increasingly technological and global world. It also enables them to better develop the analytic skills and creative mindsets that are crucial for graduate school and for advancements in careers ranging from education to engineering.
The two core LMC classes required for this minor teach students the history of science fiction across media. The three electives required to complete this minor enable students to connect their study of science fiction to issues of social justice, ethics, artistic practice, and the historic relations of science, technology, and culture. Students interested in the minor should consult with their major advisor and with Academic Advisors in LMC for signing the add minor form.
Faculty
Lisa Yaszek
A past president of the Science Fiction Research Association who studies science fiction as a global phenomenon crossing centuries, continents and cultures. Interests include issues of science and technology.
Jay Telotte
Editor of the journal Postscript and a pioneering scholar in both science fiction film and science fiction television studies. His interests include aesthetics and technology, film history, and science and technology studies.
Susana Morris
Susana M. Morris is a scholar of Black Feminism, Black Digital Media, and Afrofuturism. She has also appeared on NPR and HuffPost Live, and has been featured in Colorlines and Essence magazine.
Aaron Santesso
Professor Santesso has published articles on privacy law, surveillance theory, early modern education, literary tourism, science fiction and other topics in a number of journals and law reviews.
Carol Senf
Dr. Senf has published a variety of articles and books including "Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism" (Twayne, 1998), which won the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for best non-fiction in 1998..
Julie Hugonny
As a part of her Ph.D. in French literature, her dissertation, The Last Man. Apocalyptic science fiction literature from the nineteenth century to World War I, deals with disasters, epidemics, devolution and the end of the world.
Dina Khapeva
With a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, her recent articles include “Fantastic Beats and Muggles: Antihumanism in Rowling’s Wizarding World” and “Putin and the Apocalypse”.
Amanda Weiss
As a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Georgia Institute of Technology, she is currently completing her first book, and starting a second project on contemporary Japanese remembrance of Manchukuo.
Requirements
After completing the prerequisite of ENGL 1102, students must take 5 courses (15 total hours) distributed according to the menu below. At least 4 of these classes (12 credit hours) must be at the 3000-level or above. Students in the SFS minor must take all minor courses for letter grades, and they must attain grades of C (2.0) or better in all their minor courses to complete this program of study. Required courses include:
| Science Fiction Studies Minor | |
| Required courses(6 hours) | LMC 3214: Science Fiction |
| LMC 3215: Science Fiction Film and Television | |
| Elective courses (choose 3 for a total of9 hours) | LMC 28XX: Special Topics (with approval of the LMC DUS) |
| LMC 3112: Evolution and the Industrial Age | |
| LMC 3118: Science, Technology, and American Empire | |
| LMC 3219: Literature and Medicine | |
| LMC 3234: Creative Writing | |
| LMC 3302: Science, Technology, and Ideology | |
| LMC 3304: Science, Technology, and Gender | |
| LMC 3306: Science, Technology, and Race | |
| LMC 3308: Environmentalism and Ecocriticism | |
| LMC 3310: The Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry | |
| LMC 3316 Science, Technology, and Postcolonialism | |
| LMC 3318: Biomedicine and Culture | |
| LMC 3325: Film and/as Technology | |
| LMC 38XX: Special Topics (with approval of the LMC DUS) | |
| LMC 38XX: Special Topics (with approval of the LMC DUS) | |
| Total Credit Hours | 15 credits (5 courses) |
Students and advisors should review the undergraduate minor guidelines and Institute provisions for changing or adding undergraduate academic minors, as established by the GT Registrar’s Office.
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