DePauw University
HONR 101-02: Honor Scholar Seminar

Science Fiction

Dr. Arthur B. Evans
EC L-06, aevans@depauw.edu
home page: http://acad.depauw.edu/~aevans
(site last updated: 28 Nov. 07)

Class Web Pages

(These web pages are posted with the implicit agreement of the students who created them. If any student does not wish his/her web page to appear here, they need only to notify Prof. Evans and it will be removed from the site.)

Spring 2003:

Nader Abouelgubein on the SF of H. G. Wells

J. J. Burns on God and Religion in SF

Jacob Garbe on Tad Williams

John Grimes on Minority Report

Allen Lynch on Races and Racism in SF

Michel Martin Del Campo on Dark Heroes in Speculative Fiction

David Morine on Time Travel

Josie Strong on Terry Pratchett's Discworld

David Szydloski on Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Mayghin Brown on Neil Gaiman

Lauren Guggina on GATTACA

Steve Karacic on Time Travel

Amelia Lyle on E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial

Tim Lyon on J.R.R. Tolkien

Chris Powell on Equilibrium

Gauri Sarin on The Matrix

Andy Strasburg on Vanilla Sky

Janelle Blasdel on Roald Dahl

Katie Brown on Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern

Jessie Hemmelgarn on The Time Machine: Novel versus Films

Colleen Jensen on The Fifth Element

Alex Krzywicka on Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix

Emilee Mc Stay on 12 Monkeys

Elaine Reams on Star Trek: The Animated Series

Justin Sikes on Nefarious SF Villains

Rob Snyder on Orson Scott Card

Drew Stanley on Peter Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy

Andy Williams on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy

Michael Akinbola on Robotic Dystopias

Patricia Anderson on Michael Crichton

Rob Bramlett on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

Anjali Desai on Back to the Future

Ryan Johnson on Ray Bradury's The Martian Chronicles

Juliana Keller on Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics

Joanna Kieschnick on Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness

Javaneh Nekoomaram on Genetically Mutated Superheroes

Jessica Rooney on Music in SF Film

Julie Rooney on Firefly

Todd Schmid on Eugenics in Science Fiction

Yvonne Williams on Gynoids, Fembots, and Female Cyborgs

Tyler Archer on The Jetsons

Matt Brauer on Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"

Sarah Chamberlain on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Kirsten Gersch on Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Kyle Hall on Children's Science Fiction

Kerry Hobson on Judith Merril

Andrea Hutchinson on Atlantis

Kristina Locke on Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Craig Melancon on Carl Sagan's Contact

Kevin Milne on Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers

Kate Pickering on Robot Love

Stephanie Wood on E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"

Kate Wright on Terry Gilliam's Brazil