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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
Science fiction is the literary genre that most consistently and explicitly has addressed ecological questions and asked what the current environmental, climate and resource crises will mean for the future. Notoriously hard to define and delimit, SF is an ambivalent product of the modern technological, science-dominated, growth-fixated world, which has mediated modernity's dreams, expectations, anxieties and nightmares about life on earth. Unlike the realist novel, SF's central motives include time travel, space travel, interplanetary war and alien encounter; SF novels and films are populated not with everyday people but with aliens, androids, mutants, terminators, neuromancers, wookies and Jedi knights. But precisely because SF eschews certain kinds of surface realism, operating with what the critic Darko Suvin calls "cognitive estrangement," it can prompt reflection on our modern way of life and make us wonder if and how the world might become a different place.
Whether set on Earth or on planets in distant galaxies, SF stories offer many detailed accounts of nature, and thus there is a considerable body of environmentally-slanted SF novels, stories and films. This course will use ecocritical concepts to discuss how significant SF authors over a 100-year stretch have produced fictions that frame the stark choices and dilemmas confronting modern western societies. Themes and subthemes will include alien invasion, ecoapocalypse, world-building, alternative technology, ecofeminism, ecodystopianism and ecoutopianism.
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Peter Mortensen
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Engelsk
List of primary readings:
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
