Five great works of science fiction

Weekly sessions (Thursdays 7.00pm - 9.00pm)

• 25 April: Un/Tamed Technology: Isaac Asimov's I, Robot (1950)
• 02 April: The Law of the Minimum: Frank Herber's Dune (1965)
• 09 May: The King was pregnant: Ursula K Le Guin's, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• 16 May: A talent for cancer: Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood (1987-9)
• 23 May: Rights and Resleeving: Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon (2002)

Online support

This course will be supported by our virtual learning environment (VLE). You will be able to download course material, contact your tutor and talk to fellow students via the web at a time and place that’s convenient to you. To gain access to the VLE you will need to provide a valid email address when registering for the course.

Please note that this course will take place in the Lightfoot room in the Faculty of Divinity.

No academic qualification is required of applicants, and most courses are suitable for students who are new to the subject.

All teaching is in English (unless a foreign-language course). If your first language is not English, you need to satisfy yourself that you have the required near-native command of the language to get the maximum benefit from studying with ICE.

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Faculty of Divinity:

The Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, is an international centre of excellence for study, teaching and research in Theology, Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, and the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics.

We are a strong academic community combining outstanding research with teaching for more than 300 students. We are housed in a fine modern building, specially constructed in the round, adjacent to related Faculties in the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, on the Sidgwick Site in Cambridge. A notable strength of the Faculty of Divinity is the great variety of backgrounds and nationalities of its staff and students.

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