TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Mars Literature
AU - Lockard, Joe
AU - Goggin, Peter
N1 - Funding Information: We wish to acknowledge helpful comments from Tim Swindle, director of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at University of Arizona and a fellow Mars teacher. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course organization and syllabus, Americanist conceptual approaches, anti-colonialism, habitat sustainability, and pedagogical possibilities for future discussion of Mars literature. The paper argues for a fiction-based approach to understanding historical and potential future relationships with Mars and Mars science.
AB - The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course organization and syllabus, Americanist conceptual approaches, anti-colonialism, habitat sustainability, and pedagogical possibilities for future discussion of Mars literature. The paper argues for a fiction-based approach to understanding historical and potential future relationships with Mars and Mars science.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11191-022-00333-3
DO - 10.1007/s11191-022-00333-3
M3 - Article
SN - 0926-7220
VL - 32
SP - 821
EP - 844
JO - Science and Education
JF - Science and Education
IS - 3
ER -