OUTER SPACE AND THE HUMANITIES: LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND THE ARTS FROM GALILEO TO NASA

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

Space – including Outer Space– is all around us: we inhabit it, travel through it, explore it, write about it, legislate it, share it, fight over it, and are endlessly fascinated by it. Consider the Political and Corporate Space Races, Black Science Fiction, Space and Race, Space Tourism, Space and Religion, Space and Ecology, Space Trash, Space Law, amongst many other topics. In this course we will discover how these topics of Outer Space connect with the imaginative and creative arts, especially in literature, arts, film and culture.