2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Oct 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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LI 425 - Afrofuturism

Credits: 4
Studies the topic of Afrofuturism through an examination of speculative fiction by African American and African diaspora writers. Students study novels, short stories, interviews, films, critical theory, and visual art, analyzing the social and historical contexts for the literary works in question. Subjects include climate change, dystopia, apocalypse, queer utopias, posthumanism, and species hybridity.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): One 300-level Literature course.
Course Restrictions: Junior or Senior standing
Liberal Arts Perspective(s):



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