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Apr 15, 2026
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CNX 140 - Science/Fiction
Description
What makes something scientific? What makes it literary? And what is the relationship between these two ways of knowing? This course explores how literature and science emerged together as fields of knowledge and how they still work together today. We will analyze how literary and scientific writers both sought to understand the world around them through empiricist description, narrative, and analogy. We will read classic science writing and, of course, classic science fiction, and we will attend to how literature and science both offer social critique, make claims to moral values, and attempt to imagine better futures for us. Possible texts include Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Octavia Butler’s Dawn, and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.
Credits: 1
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