LITR 4368
Literature of the Future
        

Model Assignments

Index to
Final Exam Essays 2019

assignment
 

Sample answers to Essay 1: “future scenarios”
(alphabetical order)

Oneydy Alonzo, The Self and the Other vs. Community and Nature

Kimberly Berlin, Eco-Aliens

Brandon Burrow, Alien Contact, Ecotopias, and the “Other” Dimension

Sage Butler, Human Response to Harming our Planet: Fight or Flight?

Christopher Carlson, Out with the Old and in with the New: A Comparison between High-Tech and Low-Tech Societies

Timothy Doherty, Alien Contact and Technology

Zachariah Gandin, The Humanistic Element of the Future

Andrea Gerlach, Connection: Artificial or Otherwise

Audrey Lange, Ultra-Terrestrial or Extra-Terrestrial: Comparable Futures in Fiction

Beau Manshack, Alien Punks: Comparing the Genres of Alien Contact and High-Tech Narratives

Breanna Runnels, Comparative Scenarios of the Future

 

Sample answers to Essay 2: Complete Research Report on personal / professional topic
(alphabetical order)  

Kimberly Berlin, Humans are Space Orcs: A Subgenre of Science Fiction

Brandon Burrow, Whose Future is it Anyway?

Sage Butler, Blessed Be the Fruit

Christopher Carlson, Humanity’s Extinction: The Loss of the Human form for the Artificial One

Amanda Cowart, The Future of Medical Technology: Our Doom or Our Bloom

Tim Doherty, Wells and Butler: Hope in Hopeless Times

Zachariah Gandin, The Future of Empathy

Andrea Gerlach, Utopia and Declinism in Future Narratives

Heidi Kreeger, The Importance of Being Earnest: Using Literature to Combat Climate Change NOW

Audrey Lange, Philology of the Future: Linguistics and Language Formation in Future Fiction

D'Layne Lee, Symbolism in the Garden

Breanna Runnels, Questionable Roles of Women in Science Fiction

Sample answers to Essay 3: Web Highlights
(alphabetical order)  

Kimberly Berlin, Reading for Pleasure in the Classroom

Brandon Burrow, The Human/Technology Dichotomy

Sage Butler, Opposite Sex in Science Fiction: The Stark Differences in Gender Portrayal

Christopher Carlson, To see or not to see: A look to the past to brighten our future

Tim Doherty, Cyberpunk Through Someone Else’s Eyes

Zachariah Gandin, Technology: The Rift in Humanity or a Gateway into a New Humanity?

Heidi Kreeger, The Future of Our Classrooms

Audrey Lange, Just Whose Apocalypse Is This?: Hegemonic Structures in Future Fiction

Andrea Gerlach, Man Made Machine

Beau Manshack, Literature of Ecology: The Relationship Between Realism and Ecotopias

Breanna Runnels, High/Low Tech as a Single Genre