About the course

Imagining Catastrophe is a course about catastrophe in our psychic, philosophical, and social space: how it is imagined in fiction, film, and other media, but also in policy, design, and disaster plans, how imagining catastrophes has become everyday social practice. In the course we analyse the constitutive subjects, agents, objects, and actions of imagined catastrophes.

Course content

Syllabus spring 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

General entry requirements + Civics 1b or Civics 1a1 +1a2, English 6

Selection

Upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%

Course literature

  • Angus, Ian. Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System. New York Monthly Review Press, 2016. Print.
  • Davies, Jeremy. Birth of the Anthropocene. Oakland, California: Univ of California Press, 2018. Print.
  • Gil, Isabel Capeloa and Wulf, Christoph. Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015.
  • Keane, Stephen. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe. London: Wallflower, 2006. Print.
  • Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behaviour: A Novel. London: Faber and Faber, 2013. Print.
  • Reilly, Meg L. We Are Unprepared: A Novel. Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, 2016. Print.

Supplementary articles, literature and film will be provided.

Course evaluation

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14)

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

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Faculty of Culture and Society

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School of Arts and Communication

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