Final Exam Assignment

Format: You may take your final exam either in-class using paper and ink during the final exam period (10 May, 7-9:50pm) or by email before midnight on 10 May. The schedule for email testing is more flexible, but email students shouldn’t spend more than 2 hours and 50 minutes writing their exam. Both types of exam are open-book and open-notebook.

Assignment: Write an essay on the Literature of Space read in class since the midterm.

Text requirements: Student must refer to A Princess of Mars, Of a Fire on the Moon, and The Sparrow. (Students may substitute The Gods of Mars for A Princess of Mars and/or their alternative science fiction text of extraterrestrial exploration in place of The Sparrow.) Brief references to other texts beyond the course are welcome.

Possible options for emphasis:

·        As with the midterm, develop a course objective, part of an objective, or a combination of objectives and apply them to an analysis of the texts.

·        Develop a genre analysis based on the question, Is there a “Literature of Space?” Or, What are the difficulties and possibilities for a Literature of Space?

·        Relevant to Objective 2b, align the three texts on the Fiction-Nonfiction spectrum and analyze by means of comparison and contrast.

·        Students may propose relevant alternatives in the final class meeting on 3 May.