PULS
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This course will introduce participants to the utopian genre, to fiction that served authors to plan and discuss wholesale outlines for a better state (or even: world) order.
Participants will read excerpts from texts from the 16th to the 20th century. We will engage with questions such as:
Materials will be provided via moodle; the course will meet biweekly via zoom.
Preliminary reading list (these will be excerpts)
16th century: Thomas More, Utopia
17th century: Margarete Cavendish, The Blazing World
19th century: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward; Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood
20th century: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; George Orwell, 1984; Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia; Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Students will prepare short presentations (ideally a short video/prezi/podcast), to be uploaded towards the end of the term, and be asked to submit a peer review on the uploaded materials. Both, academic and didactic merit of these presentations will be evaluated.
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