Summer 2025 A-term
Meeting:
TTh 9:40am - 11:50am
SLN:
10664
Section Type:
Seminar
Instructor:
APOCALYPSE AND POPULAR CULTURE -
CLIMATE, CATASTROPHE, AND
IMAGINATION (AH, W)
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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 29, 2025 - 1:49 pm