means class meets in Computer Lab: 409 Daniel | 
SFE
=Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. |
SF: Syllabus for Spring, 2003
Monday Jumps:
M Jan
13: Campbell | W Jan 22: HG
Wells | M Jan 27: Utopias
and Dystopias | M
Feb 3: Space Opera | M Feb 10: Future History |
M
Feb 17: Aliens |
M Feb 24: Time Travel
| M, March 3: PK Dick | M,
March 10: New Wave and Delany's Babel-17 | M,
March 24: Le Guin | M, M 31: Women
in SF | M, April 7: Cyberpunk and Gibson's Neuromancer
| M, April 14: Bruce Sterling's Distraction|
M,
April 21: Preparing for the Final, Presentations
means class meets in Computer Lab: 409 Daniel | SFE
=Science Fiction Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. |
means class handout | 
means
handout is in Xerox book | 
means
handout is on the web
means
read this novel
1. W, Jan 8: General Intro ->Policy
Statement, Syllabus
2.
F, Jan 10: Technical Intro->:
(Class meets in Dan 409 -- Multi-
Media Lab) Class web site; discuss projects etc. (Pick up first
installment of Anthology
at Campus Copy)
3. M, Jan 13: Thematic Intro--> Read Critical Background Material in Xerox Book
4. W,Jan 15: Thematic Intro--> Read Critical Background Material in Xerox Book
5.
F Jan 17: Definitions ->
Class meets in Dan 409 for in-class on-line chat
Read
SFE, entry on Definitions
of SF
Read
Web site on defintions
<http://www.panix.com/~gokce/sf_defn.html>
Another,
shorter set of definitions
7. W Jan 24:H.G. Wells->
SFE
on Wells
Check out info on web and in Xerox
book,including study guide questions.
Read
first half of the Time Machine.Finish
Time
Machine
Gliederung
of Time Machine
Campbell
Chart of Time Machine
Study
Guide questions on Tme MachineSFE
entries on utopias and dystopias, Bellamy, and William Morris
Materials
in Xerox Book and on-line about Utopias and Dystopias
Link
to Bellamy and Morris Materials
Link to Student Class Day on Utopia
Link
to Utopia Links Including link to Forester
Utopia
Biblio
Outline
of Characteristics to Look for in UtopiasHerland
Chaps
1-3
10. W Jan 31:Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland
Herland
Study
Guide
Gliederung
for Herland
Campbell
Chart on Herland
New
Links on Gilman11.
F Feb 2: Basic HTML-->Crunching Code: basic commands: colors etc
HTML--
Basic Concepts
Minimum
Requirements for an HTML Document
Begin
talking to each other about group projects.
SFE
Entry on Space Opera, Gernback, E. Doc Smith
Hugo
Gernsback, "New York A.D. 2660
E.
Doc Smith Handout
A
Rather Idiosyncratic List of Space Operas
Chonological
Chart of the History of SF
Old Space Opera Links
New
Links on Pulps and Space OperaSFE
on Golden Age, Campbell, Hard SF
Campbell,
"Who Goes There?"
Heinlein,
"The Roads Must Roll,"
Tom
Godwin, "The Cold Equations"
Page with study guide questions for Heinlein adn Godwin stories
Explanation
of Hard SF from Ultimate SF Site
Long
but very interesting Intro to an anthology of Hard SF
Chart
Comparing Cosmology, Epistemology, Psychology, and Axiology of Various
Kinds of SF
My
Links on Golden Age SF, Campbell, Stapeldon. Heinlein, Asimov14.
F Feb 9: Intro to Graphics-> Photoshop I: file size & format
; filters
Student
Portfolio Pages
Requirements
for Portfolio Pages
SF
Portfolio Pages must be posted by 5:00 PM. Monday, Feb 10 
E-Mail
URL to list.
15. M Feb 10: Hard SF: Future History ->
SFE
on Stapeldon, Asimov, Galactic Empires, History in SF
Clarke
on Stapeldon
Future
History Charts
Asimov,
excerpt from Foundation,
Mark
Space Entry on Stapeldon
Stages
in the Future History of the Universe
My
Old Links on Asimov and HeinleinHeinlein,
Starship Troopers
SFE
and Web on Henlein
Reading/
Study Guide on Starship Troopers
Student
Bibliography on Henlein (includes all short stories)
Gliederung/
Plot Summary of Starship Troopers17.
F Feb 14: More on Photoshop..Making bacakground images
Groups
must be formed; discuss questions on proposals
18. M Feb 17: Hard SF: Aliens ->
SFE
on aliens
Selective,
Chronological, Thematic Reading List on Aliens
Student
Notes on Aliens
Weinbaum,"Martian
Odyssey" (1934)
A.C.
Clarke, SFE & WEB,
A.C.
Clarke, "The Sentinel"
SFE
on Holocausts and After
Cosy
Cat Biblio http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfclass/Cosycat.htm
Reading
and Discussion Questions on Holocuasts and Cosy Catastrophes
H.G.
Wells, "The Star" (1897)
Theodore
Sturgeon, "Thunder and Roses"(1947)
Arthur
C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" (1953)20.
F Feb 23: Lab Work Day:Intro to Graphics-> Photoshop I: file size
& format ; filters
Groups
work on proposals (Due Friday, Feb 28)
21. M Feb 24: Softening SF--Time Travel->
SFE
on Time Travel, Time Paradoxes and Alternate Worlds
Time
Travel and Alternate Worlds Biblio
Reading
and Discussion Questions on Time Travel
S.
James Jakaiel and Rosandra E. Levinthal, "The Laws of Time Travel"
Ray
Bradbury, "The Sound of Thunder"
Alfred
Bester, "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed"
Robert
Heinlein, "All You Zombies"SFE:
Pseudo-Science, Psi Powers, Psionics, Psychology, ESP
Psionics
Biblio
Reading
and Discussion Questions on Psionics
1954
Jerome Bixby, "It's a Good Life"
1969
Anne McCaffrey, "Apple"Visual
Edit Sheet27. M Mar 10: New Wave SF-> Definition, EllisonMonday, March 3 -- 7:30 PM -- Free Showing of Blade Runner
25. W Mar 5: Blade Runner26. F Mar 7: Day off
28. W Mar 12: New Wave SF-> Delany , Babel-17
29. F Mar 16: Either continue discussion of Delany or work with Photoshop in Lab
30. M Mar 24: Ursula Le Guin, -> Left Hand of Darkness
31. W Mar 26:
Left
Hand of Darkness cont.
32. F Mar 28: Lab Work Day on Photoshop
33. M Mar 31: Women in SF-> Historically
34. W Apr2: Women in SF: Tiptree ->
35. F Apr 4: Lab Work Day
SFE:
Entry on Cyber-Punk
Web
Materials on Cyber-Punk http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfmats.html#cyberpnk
McCaffrey,
"The Desert of the Real," Notes on CP from Mississippi Review
Cyber-punk Notes | Post-modernism
defined by Frederic Jameson
Begin
reading Neuromancer by William Gibson
Neuromancer Gliederung
Neuromancer
links from Joseph
38. F Apr 11: Continue
Neuromancer
40. W Apr 16: Continue Distraction
42. M Apr 21: Wrap Distraction ( have novel finished)
44. F Apr 27: ***Site Presentations ***