這門課是在 英語講授的。

By the end of this class, students will be able to:
•	Explain the differences between utopia and dystopia
•	Explain how science fiction can serve as a tool of social commentary
•	Explain how authors use intertextuality to converse with each other across time
•	Examine the differences between Wells’s and Lewis’s answers to the riddle of mankind
•	Discuss how science fiction authors use mathematical, biological, and philosophical concepts in their stories

I am an adjunct professor of English at Collin College in northern Texas.
I have a masters in English from Texas A&M University, where I wrote my thesis on J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of Christianized Germanic heroism and its application in his Middle-earth legendarium. I am a scholar of imaginative literature in general and the Inklings in particular. My great loves are fantasy, mythology, and science fiction.
At A&M, I worked for 3 semesters as a graduate assistant teacher of courses in literature and technical writing. I also have many years of experience working with children, including freelance tutoring, volunteering as a religious education teacher’s aide, and leadership roles in 13 years as a Girl Scout.

提供的家庭作業
Before each meeting, students need to have read the chapters listed for that week and responded to the weekly discussion question ni the classroom. This should take no more than 2 hours per week.
1 - 2 每週課外時間
提供的評估
Assessment is informal, based on class participation and replies to the discussion questions.
提供的成績

The following provide source material or background information for the course. I won't explicitly reference all of them in class, and students only have to read The Time Machine, Perelandra, and the first three chapters of Genesis.

Abbot, Edwin A. Flatland, with introduction by Valerie M. Smith and a new afterword by John Allen Paulos. Signet Classics, introduction 2005, afterword 2013.
Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. Vintage Books, 2013.
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. The New American Library of Canada, 1968, epilogue 1982.
---. The City and the Stars/The Sands of Mars. Warner Books, 2001.
Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha. Harper Bibles, 2007.
Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, Book 1), EPub Edition. HarperCollins, 2012.
---. Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2), EPub Edition. HarperCollins, 2012.
---. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3), EPub Edition. HarperCollins, 2012.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Start Publishing LLC, 2012.
Myers, Doris T. “What Lewis Really Did to The Time Machine and The First Men in the Moon.”  Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, Vol. 13 :  No. 3, Article 11, 1987.  https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol13/iss3/11.
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels, edited with an Introduction by CLAUDE RAWSON and Notes by IAN HIGGINS. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine, with introduction by Greg Bear and afterword by Simon J. James. Signet Classics, 2002.
---. The War of the Worlds. Kaplan Publishing, 2011.