CHID 211 A: Apocalypse and Popular Culture

Summer 2025 A-term
Meeting:
TTh 9:40am - 11:50am / SIG 227
SLN:
10664
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
APOCALYPSE AND POPULAR CULTURE - CLIMATE, CATASTROPHE, AND IMAGINATION (AH, W) ___ THIS COURSE WILL EXPLORE THE POST- APOCALYPTIC IMAGINATION, FOCUSING PRIMARILY ON SECULAR RENDERINGS OF THE END OF THE WORLD WITHIN POPULAR CULTURAL FORMS, FROM FILM TO GRAPHIC NOVELS TO CONTEMPORARY FICTION. BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY, THIS COURSE WILL CENTER REPRESENTATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO DEPICTIONS OF CLIMATE CATASTROPHE.
Catalog Description:
Introduces strategies for interpreting popular culture and film, focusing on a range of filmic subgenres that imagine future worlds, while situating these films within wider cultural, political, and historical contexts and foregrounding questions of power and difference, science and technology, and the politics of representation. Offered: AS.
GE Requirements Met:
Diversity (DIV)
Arts and Humanities (A&H)
Writing (W)
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
October 4, 2025 - 5:50 pm