Do you like reading? Do you like science fiction? Sign up to take Kellogg Community College’s three-credit LITE 241: Science Fiction class this fall!
As noted in the course description in the College’s current Academic Catalog, the class offers students:
An exploration of the background, major themes and types, authors and influences of science fiction. The goal is to become acquainted with the interrelationship between science fiction as an art form and the cultures from which it develops as a mode of perceiving and defining reality.
The course will run from 10 to 11:20 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays Aug. 25 through Dec. 8 in room 301 of the C Classroom Building on campus at 450 North Ave., Battle Creek.
According to instructor Craig Mack, reading for the course will include genre classics including Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and “The War of the Worlds,” Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s “A Canticle for Leibowitz” and Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” in addition to a number of short stories.
To learn more about signing up for fall classes at KCC, visit www.kellogg.edu/registration.