means class meets in Computer Lab: 409 Daniel |
Link
to Buckbeak
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
SF: Syllabus for Spring,
2005
Mostly Monday Jumps:
W Jan
12: Campbell | M, Jan 24: HG
Wells | F,Jan 28: Utopias and Dystopias
| M, Jan 31: Gilman |
M
Feb 7: Space Opera | M Feb 14: Future History
| M Feb 21: Aliens | M Feb
28: Time Travel |
M, March
7: PK Dick | M, March 14: New Wave and Delany
| M, March 28: Le Guin | M,
Apr 4: Women in SF | M, April 11: Brin's EARTH|
M,
April 18: Red Mars| M, April 25: Presentations
means class meets in Computer Lab: 409 Daniel |Link
to Buckbeak
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
Policy
Statement, Syllabus
2.
F, Jan 14: 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)
SFE
on Wells
Check out info on web and in Xerox
book,including study guide questions.
Romance
Read
first half of the Time Machine, thinking about Campbell
6. W Jan 26: H.G. Wells->
Finish
Time
Machine
Gliederung
of Time Machine
Campbell
Chart of Time Machine
Study
Guide questions on Time Machine
Unit 2: Utopias,
Gilman, and Early Origins of SF
7. F
Jan 28: Early Origins: Utopias ->
SFE
entries on
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
8. M Jan 31:Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Herland
Utopia/
Dystopia Chart for Herland
Herland
Study
Guide
Gliederung
for Herland
Campbell
Chart on Herland
New
Links on Gilman
9. W Jan Feb 2: Wrap up Herland.
Female Quest
The
Female Hero
Dorothy
vs. Luke
Making
Up Unit Points10.
F Feb 4: Basic HTML-->Crunching Code: basic commands: colors etc
HTML--
Basic Concepts
Minimum
Requirements for an HTML Document
Groups should be pretty much established. Buckbeak
SFE
Entries on Space Opera, Gernback, E. Doc Smith
Hugo
Gernsback, "New York A.D. 2660 or First
Chapter from Ralph 124C 41+ or Chapter
One of Ultimate World (caution--somewhat sexually explicit)
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 and 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, Asimov13.
F Feb 11: HTML: Links, Images, and Lists
Groups
must be formed
Student
Portfolio Pages
Requirements
for Portfolio Pages
SF
Portfolio Pages must be posted by 5:00 PM. Monday, Feb 21
14. M Feb 14: Hard SF: Future History ->
SFE
on Stapeldon, Asimov, Galactic Empires, History in SF
Clarke
on Stapeldon
Future
History Charts:
Asimov,
excerpt from Foundation,
Stages
in the Future History of the Universe
Links
on Golden Age and Future History (Campbell, Stapledon, Heinlein, Asimov)
15. W Feb 16: Hard SF: Heinlein,
Orphans
of the Sky
SFE
and Web on Henlein
Our
Orphans
Page (Study Guide, Campbell Chart etc.)
Student
Bibliography on Henlein (includes all short stories)
Reading/
Study Guide on Starship Troopers
Gliederung/
Plot Summary of Starship Troopers16.
F Feb 18: wrap up on Portfolio pages
Student
Portfolio Pages
Requirements
for Portfolio Pages
Visual
Edit SheetSF
Portfolio Pages must be posted onBuckbeak
by 5:00 PM. Monday, Feb 21 P
Discuss questions on proposals
17. M Feb 21: Hard SF: Aliens ->
SFE
on aliens
Selective,
Chronological, Thematic Reading List on Aliens
Student
Notes on Aliens
A
Few Alien Links
Weinbaum,"Martian
Odyssey" (1934)
A.C.
Clarke, SFE & WEB,
A.C.
Clarke, "The Sentinel"SFE
on Holocausts and After (Adam and Eve, Disaster, Ecology, End of the World,
Nuclear Power, Overpopulation, Pollution, Survivalist Fiction)
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)
19.
F Feb 25: Lab Work Day:Intro to Graphics-> Photoshop I: file size &
format ; filters
Groups
work on proposals (Due Friday, March 4)
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"22.
F Mar 4: Philip K. Dick
Web
on P.K. Dick"We
Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (source for Total Recall)Excerpt
from Speech on "Android and Machine"Start
Reading Three StigmataAndrew
Trapp's Gliederung of Do Androids Dream
Themes
and Things to Discuss about Blade Runner (notes from a grad class)
Campbell
Chart on Do Androids Dreams
Study
Guide from from Paul Brians on Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep
My
Study Questions Comparing the Film vs. the Book
Film
Class Web Site on Blade RunnerVisual
Edit Sheet
CLass Notes
Gliederung of Three Stigmata
Themes
and Things to Think About for Three Stigmata
Campbell Chart for Three Stigmata
-->BRING
HARD COPY (B&W ok) of your portfolio page to class on Wednesday.
Unit 5: New Wave
and Delany
24. W Mar 9: New Wave SF-> Definition,
Ellison
26. M Mar 14: New Wave SF-> Delany , Ballad of Beta Two
- Critique of Proposals and Portfolio Pages, plus a little work on Photoshop
- How to make a seamless background tile
- How to Change the Color of an image in Photoshop
- How to Make an Embossed Image for a Background Tile
- How to Make a Transparent GIF
- Some Photoshop Filters
27. W Mar 16: Ursula Le Guin, Intro to Left Hand of Darkness
28.
F Mar 18: Work with Photoshop in Lab
30. W Mar 30:
Left
Hand of Darkness cont.
31.
F Apr 1: Lab Work Day
32. M Apr 4: Women in SF-> Historically
33. W Apr 6: Women in SF: Tiptree ->
;
Digital sender)
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
"Johnnny Mneumonic" by William Gibson
Cyber-punk Notes | Post-modernism
defined by Frederic Jameson
36. W Apr 13:
Begin Brin's Earth
- Ecological Issues in Science Fiction
- Brin Biblio
- Some Brin Links
- Brunner Biblio
- Reading/ Study Guide Questions on Earth
- Gliederung of Earth
- Campbell Chart for Earth
37.
F Apr 15: Last Lab Work Day
Robinson Biblio Red Mars Materials Plot Outline/ Gliederung (Anatomy) Main and Supporting Characters Important Themes/ Reading and Discussion Questions Glossary of Specialized and Foreign Terms The Gift Economy Kim Stanley Robinson Bibliography
Kim Stanley Robinson Links
40.
F Apr 22:Another Last Lab Day SF Site Evaluation
41. M
Apr 25: Review for Final, emphasizng Red Mars (bring xerox book
to class)
Final Exam Essay Questions for 2005 Core List 2005
42.
W Apr 27: ***Site Presentations *** SF
Site Evaluation
43. F Apr 29: Wrap Red Mars