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ENFL BC

2 courses with the subject ENFL BC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

ENFL BC3001BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION3.00

Black Speculative Fiction encompasses a whole range of Black subgenres from Science Fiction and Fantasy to Horror and Afrofuturism. For the duration of this course, we will attempt to begin the work of extrapolating the function of Blackness within these various genres—interrogating which syntactical elements are required to label a piece of fiction “Black” and how Blackness informs genre. Through formal analysis of texts and the application of various theories presented in class, we’ll begin to understand how Blackness moves through genre to understand its relationship to the world and in some cases, to the artform itself. We will look at various texts: Film, Television, Prose, and Music. By looking across genres, we will be able to honor the inherent intertextuality of Black work and the constant inter-discursive work done across genre, text, and time. Whether a critique of structural anti-Blackness writ large, an expression of the complexity of the positionality of Black persons, or a statement of the function of Blackness, these texts make a case for the theoretical rigor and provocative discourses that lies at the heart of Black Speculative Fiction

Subject: ENFL BC
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

ENFL BC3275Nonhuman Intelligence4.00

What does it mean to be intelligent? Recent years have seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, creativity and autonomy. At the same time, we have become more aware of other forms of intelligence—some which have been with us all along. Through a selection of fiction and nonfiction texts and films, students will deepen their understanding of the multifaceted nature of intelligence and the fascinating, uncanny, and multiple ways of existing on, off, and in the earth

Subject: ENFL BC
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026
Source: catalog.barnard.edu

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