Textbooks for this Course:

Asimov, The God's Themselves (1972)
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Brin, Startide Rising (1983)
Card, Ender's Game (1985)
Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)
Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (1963)
LeGuin, The Dispossessed (1969)
Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Cultural and Social Issues and Major Themes to be considered:

Sci-Fi and the Western/Frontier theme
Fear and Hatred of the Other/Outsider--"All Aliens are to be shot on sight.
Children, Youth and War
A War by Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet--"Doomsday Machine"
Alternate Histories
Future Governments and Politics
Gender and Sexuality
Racial Identity and Humanity--"Let that be your Last Battlefield" NG: "Data as an Object"
The Environment
Sci-Fi and Mythology ("Who Mourns for Adonais?")--/Greek or Eden myth, Humankind must struggle
Religion and Evolution: How and Why Do I Exist? "This Side of Paradise" Bradbury's "The Star"
Utopias and Dystopias
Time Paradoxes--"Temporal mechanics--I hate temporal mechanics."