Creative Assignment

1 - Written assignment (including essay) - 40

Critical Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 60

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In this module, you will read a range of literary writings and other cultural forms that address themes which may include but are not necessarily limited to: 
<ul><li>Speculative and science fictions </li></ul>
<ul><li>Utopias and dystopias </li></ul>
<ul><li>Totalitarian states </li></ul>
<ul><li>Feminist narratives </li></ul>
<ul><li>Apocalypse narratives </li></ul>
<ul><li>Global warming and the Anthropocene </li></ul>
<ul><li>Pollution, extraction, and fossil fuels </li></ul>
<ul><li>Animals, species, and extinction </li></ul>
<ul><li>Imagining alternative futures </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene.

Allegories of the Anthropocene. 

Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Hyperobjects: Philosophy & Ecology After the End of the World. 

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. 

Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene.

Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. 

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. 

Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change. 

Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies. 

Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment 

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming.

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. 

Utopia: The History of an Idea.

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. 

Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meaning of Endangered Species.

Science Fiction.

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime.

Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature. 

Ecocriticism and Early Modern Literature.

The Book of Utopias.

All Art is Ecological. 

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility.

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies. 

Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. 

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. 

Dystopia: A Natural History.

EN3018 - Concerning Futures: Writing Alternative Worlds

EN3018-PRD2-PER-ALV1

This module will be delivered through a range of teaching and learning activities, including lectures, seminars and guided independent study. Lectures will introduce you to relevant literary, historical and cultural contexts and concepts. Seminars will provide opportunities for applying and articulating your knowledge. Your learning will be supported by study materials on the Virtual Learning Environment.

Concerning Futures: Writing Alternative Worlds

Compare theories from genre studies or the environmental humanities to the analysis of literary or other forms of narrative representation 

Skills

Argue for complex ideas and theories about different representations of the future 

Assess and compare appropriate recent theoretical and critical perspectives in fields such as genre studies and the environmental humanities  

Knowledge

Appraise the intersection of concerns about the future with axes of difference, such as race, gender, ethnicity and class 

Values and attitudes

Appraise and evaluate representations of the future in literature 

Explore and analyse the cultural and historical contexts informing the representation of the future in literary texts 

Cultivate a curious, enquiring attitude, and an appreciation for a diversity of opinions and ideas 