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Global Challenges in English Contemporary Fiction 7.5 credits

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About the course

We are all faced with global challenges within areas such as climate, equality, and democracy. At focus in this course is how authors regard these challenges and how they represent or imagine ways towards sustainability. Via discussions and analyses of realistic as well as speculative fiction, for both adults and young adult readers, students develop their knowledge about how sustainability challenges are examined in anglophone, contemporary literature. 

Module 1: Theory and materials 1, 5 credits 
Module 2: Climate 1, 5 credits 
Module 3: Social injustice 1, 5 credits 
Module 4: Human rights 1, 5 credits 
Module 5: Sustainable community building 1,5 credits 

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