ACL4096 Science Fiction and Fantasy in LiteratureBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ACL4096 Science Fiction and Fantasy in Literature Spring
Fall
3 0 3 6
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN
Recommended Optional Program Components: none
Course Objectives: to explore through literature and film the fundamental fears and hopes about science and technology

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Students will learn
• to identify themes and writing strategies common to science fiction and fantasy
• to discover what these novels have in common, and how reading them together helps us form a basic understanding of the principles of this genre.
• to understand what continuities and differences there have been in the public imagination about science and technology over the last century.

Course Content

a selection of classic science fiction and fantasy texts and films from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to Class -
2) The War of the Worlds Reading
3) The War of the Worlds Reading
4) The War of the Worlds Reading
5) Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? Reading
6) Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? Reading
7) Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? Reading
8) Review Reading
9) Never Let Me Go Reading
10) Never Let Me Go Reading
11) Never Let Me Go Reading
12) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Reading
13) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Reading
14) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Reading
15) Final -
16) Final -

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? By Philip Dick
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margeret Atwood
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

References: Roslynn D. Haynes, From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. JRUL: 809/H315
Ludmilla Jordanova (ed.), Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature, London : Free Association, 1986. JRUL: 809/J70
Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Elliot and Nineteenth-century Fiction, London: Routledge, 1983. JRUL: 823.09/B63. See also Beer’s Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Oxford: OUP, 1996. JRUL: 820.9/B318
Jon Turney, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. JRUL: 501.45/T1
Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1990
Brian Aldiss, The Billion Year Spree, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973
Hilary Rose, "Dreaming the future: other worlds." chapter 9 of Love, Power and Knowledge: towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences, Bloomington: Indiana Press, 1994, pp. 208-229.
Adam Roberts, Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom, London: Routledge, 2000. JRUL: 809.3/R59.
Geoff King & Tanya Krzywinska, Science Fiction Cinema, London: Wallflower, 2000. JRUL: 791.459/K6.
Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film, London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. JRUL: 791.4673/S17.
Gregg Rickman, ed., The Science Fiction Film Reader, New York: Limelight, 2004. JRUL: 791.459/R10.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 16 % 10
Quizzes 2 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 15 1 15
Quizzes 2 10 20
Midterms 1 20 20
Final 1 30 30
Total Workload 127

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture,
2) Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions,
3) Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts,
4) Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires,
5) Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately,
6) Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture,
7) Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature,
8) Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art,
9) Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture,