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Summer Online Course


I am two credits behind and need to catch up before next semester otherwise I will not be able to register until a day after all the other juniors. D:

 

So I am taking a summer course at the local community college. Which is a third of the price than taking an extra class (and overloading my schedule) next semester.

 

Being introverted/semi-antisocial/cynical/etc, I wanted to take an online course so I would not have to leave the comfort of my own computer/home.

 

Luckily enough...there's an online Literature of Science Fiction course! Sweet! Finally, a literature class where I can read stuff I enjoy, instead of realistic-fiction novels written 150 years ago that I can not relate to today (cough*Jane Austen*cough). Sci-Fi is great because I can escape the real world, which is going downhill enough as it is.

 

The first assignment is Frankenstein, and then two collections of other stories. While "older," I hope/think they will be fine. It is sci-fi after all.

 

Here is the best part: the final exam (both exams have to be taken on a campus--darn) consists of writing an essay on popular culture sci-fi. The instructor listed quite a few examples (favorites including Star Wars, Stargate, and...Doctor Who!), but I might ask (as she told us to) if I can do something on Firefly or Dollhouse (in the end it will come down to what I believe I can write on the best).

 

B)

 

-CF :kakama:

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xccj

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No No No NO!!! I'm taking a sci fi lit class and the prof chose the most abstract reads possible and... *reads rest of blog*

 

*is now insanely jealous* :glare:

 

:music:

Arpy

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Dude, Jane Austen is awesome and totally relevant to boot.

 

But regarding science fiction, do read A Canticle for Liebowitz if you've not already. It's one of the few pieces of Catholic science fiction of which I know.

ChocolateFrogs

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Yeah... Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Great Gatsby, ug I can't remember much... but anything from my Brit Lit class other lit classes like HS Senior Brit Literature (aside from Sherlock Holmes)...ewww.

 

Jason, here's what I'm reading:

* Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

* "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon

* "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey

* "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov

* "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin

* "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester

* "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum

* "The Little Black Bag" by C. M. Kornbluth

* "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett

* "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

* "Arena" by Frederic Brown

* "Schrödinger's Plague by Greg Bear

* "And the Angels Sing" by Kate Wilhelm

* "Midnight News" by Lisa Goldstein

* "Strange Wine" by Harlan Ellison

* "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress

* "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson

* "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson

* "Snow" by John Crowley

* "Stable Strategies for Middle Management" by Eileen Gunn

* "Day Million" by Frederik Pohl

* "His Vegetable Wife" by Pat Murphy

* "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr.

 

-CF

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