The description, which can be found through much tinkering at schedule.msu.edu, is as follows:
This course illustrates a variety of sci-fi themes: utopian and dystopian societies, relationships between humans, alien contact, post apocalyptic futures, female heroes and the metaphor of the vampire and the zombie. We will look closely at Aliens, The Terminator and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We will read fiction and essays by Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Bell Hooks, and others.
[ edited by Sunfire on 2009-12-09 05:03 ]
Ariel | December 08, 17:34 CET
Wish my college was this cool...you'd think it would be, considering that the ENTIRE theatre department (and most of the people in the music and English departments) has whole conversations using only Dr. Horrible quotes, uses the word "shiny" in regular conversation, and regularly debates the superiority of various pairings and the hotness of various characters. And I'm talking about both students and professors.
So why can't WE have Buffy studies???
iluvmusicals | December 08, 17:59 CET
Have fun!
lhbach | December 08, 18:35 CET
ITS NOT FAIR!
C | December 08, 18:37 CET
Bt06 | December 08, 19:00 CET
TwitlightTwilight series is on the compulsory reading list, and I could barely make it through chapter 1 of Twilight itself. I'm also dropping Women Writers of the Modern Era because it has a major focus on Meyer... now, if they were offering studies in Buffy/Joss Whedon/Sci-Fi, I would actually be interested in (and that would guarantee my attendence to every single lecture). The University of Queensland really needs to step up it's game.Avarice | December 08, 19:08 CET
lhbach- which dorm were you in? I was a Lyman Briggs grad, and married someone who was a Justin Morrill grad (JM no longer exists, and LB is part of main campus now, rather than a residential college, as it was then). Animal Science is, and was, one of the big programs at MSU. I was simply biology, with a focus on botany.
Dana5140 | December 08, 19:18 CET
Sunfire | December 08, 20:02 CET
Hekate | December 08, 21:23 CET
I'm doing graduate studies here at MSU, and until I realized that I seriously considered trying to sit in on it...
callmejeed | December 09, 06:59 CET
Hekate | December 09, 09:42 CET
Anyway . . . I really hope I get in. It looks like there are still spots open.
icallitvera | December 09, 11:04 CET
emmy | December 09, 13:40 CET
(And if she doesn't reply, contact the department directly? They're authorized to do the override.)
Hekate | December 09, 14:02 CET
Best. Class. Ever.
For our final class we turned in our term papers, then watched Chosen.
[ edited by Emmie on 2009-12-09 23:21 ]
Emmie | December 09, 14:20 CET
silent knight | December 09, 17:46 CET
CloudyVisions | December 09, 21:40 CET
icallitvera | December 10, 07:23 CET
Hekate | December 10, 12:10 CET