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ENG 245 - Literature, Science and Culture

3.00 credit hours
A study of the wide variety of interactions between what some have called “the two cultures”—science and literature. Students analyze science texts (both fiction and essays) along with literature and film that imagines, critiques and evaluates science and its endeavors. Writers have used scientific ideas to explore ethics, morality, politics, religion, economics and so on, even as science draws on literary strategies such as metaphor, culture and language for its insights. Topics may include literature representing the medical, biological or physical sciences; environmental/green literature; literature examining the emergence of industrial and information technologies; feminist science studies; apocalypse literature; or science, post-human and/or cyborg fiction.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 115  or ENG 125 .
Core: Humanities.


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