FS 009 PZ -Futures Past

Institution: Pitzer

Description: This course will explore visions of the future made in the distant and recent past. From speculative fiction to policy reports, these conjectures are as terrifying as nuclear holocaust and as seemingly benign as video calls. In the present, we can evaluate what predictions have materialized. Perhaps more intriguingly, historical hopes and fears serve as a window into the values and voices of the past. By comparing predictions across a variety of times and cultures, we may ask, whose future and why? [Instructor: Jemma Lorenat]

Prerequisite(s): None

First-Year seminars are not listed on the course schedule. Incoming students will be assigned to a first-year seminar and registered automatically.