LIT 166 - Science Fiction

1. Apply college-level reading skills to science fiction.
   1. Read a range of science fiction texts, including works by diverse authors, such as women and people of color, who are often underrepresented in the field of science fiction.
   2.  Demonstrate understanding of genre distinctions
   3.  Apply terminology appropriate to reading science fiction
2. Analyze literature by focusing on textual, structural, and thematic elements
   1. Explain the relationship between literary form and content
   2. Discuss connections between authors and texts
   3. Examine the relationships between literary texts and historical contexts
   4. Analyze literature through thematic approaches
3. Evaluate science fiction’s continuing relevance to the human condition
   1. Correlate assigned texts with current events, global contexts, and material from other disciplines
   2. Reflect on how texts shape identities including gender, racial and cultural influences
   3. Apply assigned readings to film, television, and popular culture
4. Apply the writing process to course assignments
   1. Demonstrate awareness of academic conventions for organization, audience, and language
   2. Understand writing as an active process, using planning, drafting, revising, and editing
   3. Discuss strategies for seeking assistance with writing and editing
5. Evaluate written analyses or interpretations
   1. Generate writing in response to assigned texts
   2. Analyze literature through literary critical approaches
   3. Interpret science fiction by employing complex argumentation
6. Integrate standard college-level documentation practices
   1. Understand definitions and consequences of plagiarism
   2. Identify reasons for documentation
   3. Integrate sources effectively within the given context
   4. Document sources using MLA style