COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

WINTER 2016 Strategies of Alterity: Sci-Fi, Other Worlds, Space

CLASS OUTLINE (Some items are subject to change)

Week 1: Drafting Space Opera
Tu - Define the terms - which science-fiction? - Pre-production & ideation work
Th - Other planets, landscapes, terrain

Week 2: Communication
Tu - Alien languages & relations
Th - Technique : Speculative Ideation

Week 3: Multi-Personhood
Tu - Human Evolution
Th - Humanity Uncentered

Week 4: Critiques of pre-production/concept-design pitch

Week 5: Sound, Song, Transmission
Tu - Technique: Sound-design and “radio”-drama
Th - Space is the Place

Week 6: Old Ideas Anew
Tu - Ancient Origins and Human Mythologies
Th - Technique: TBD

Week 7 Critiques of sound-design/radio-play work

Week 8: Tiny Blue Dot
Tu -Isolation - Adrift - Lost
Th - Technique: Compositing & Set Extension

Week 9: The Grid
Tu - World building from data
Th - Technique: TBD

Week 10 Critiques of motion-picture projects
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