Course Details

  • Online | Asynchronous
  • December 21, 2026 – January 8, 2027
  • 3 credits | $2,022
  • Last day to register: December 22, 2026
  • Core Curriculum Attributes: Ethical Reasoning; Language, Arts, and Humanities

Course Overview

We are most familiar with stories set in the past, and for good reason: tales set in the future are rarer and seem to follow different rules. In this course, we will look at stories that envision the future and study how they function. We will read novels and watch films for their predictions about the future as well as what they tell us about our present. Our texts will include works of science fiction (sci-fi), speculative fiction, climate fiction (cli-fi), and Afrofuturism.

Additional Information

Faculty will contact all students after the Tuesday, December 22, registration deadline.

About the Instructor

Scott A. Cohen

Professor of English
Scott Cohen is an Associate Professor of twentieth-century British and postcolonial literatures. He teaches courses in Postcolonial cultural studies, world Anglophone literatures, transnational and international modernism, and the history and theory of the novel.

Questions? Contact Us

Duffy Academic Center – 112

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