Do you like fantasy and science fiction? Here is an apt online course

University of Michigan is offering an online course called "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World". This 11-week-long course will begin during the 3rd week of February.

About the course:

Fantasy is a key term both in psychology and in the art and artifice of humanity. The things we make, including our stories, reflect, serve, and often shape our needs and desires. We see this everywhere from fairy tale to kiddie lit to myth; from "Cinderella" to Alice in Wonderland to Superman; from building a fort as a child to building ideal, planned cities as whole societies. Fantasy in ways both entertaining and practical serves our persistent needs and desires and illuminates the human mind. Fantasy expresses itself in many ways, from the comfort we feel in the godlike powers of a fairy godmother to the seductive unease we feel confronting Dracula. From a practical viewpoint, of all the fictional forms that fantasy takes, science fiction, from Frankenstein to Avatar, is the most important in our modern world because it is the only kind that explicitly recognises the profound ways in which science and technology, those key products of the human mind, shape not only our world but our very hopes and fears. This course will explore Fantasy in general and Science Fiction in specific; both as art and as insights into ourselves and our world.

Eric Rabkin will be the course instructor.

The course will have a workload of 8-12 hours of work / week.

It will be taught in English and the subtitles will be available in English.

For further details and to register click here