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This section of GCOR 112: College Writing 2: Literary Themes investigates the hopes and fears that new technologies present and how literary and artistic portrayals of "technotopia"--imagined utopias and dystopias based on technology--have changed over time. We will encounter critical approaches to the philosophical, artistic, and social issues raised by new technologies by reading poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction essays as well as screening film and new media.

This course will make use of some of the technological tools available to us at Berklee, especially the online resources accessible through the portal at http://my.berklee.net, including the message board, journals, shared files, and hyperlinks. You will need to login to this site. If you don’t know your password, go to the Media Center with your Berklee ID. Part of the coursework is a critical reflection on how you use technology and what effect it has on your ideas, creativity, and learning.
Explore what role you think technology should–and could–play in our present and future.

Required Books:
Norton Book of Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery (editors)
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Machinal, Sophie Treadwell
Online readings to download from http://my.berklee.net