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This course will examine representations of, and confrontations with, climate change in science fiction. We will focus on narratives that explicitly foreground the current planetary catastrophe of anthropogenic global warming and its various cause and consequences, especially those texts that produce and/or critique new forms of climate change denialism. We will also engage with various community partners working to confront climate change. We will examine these projects and narratives alongside climate change discourse, literary theory, and literary criticism to develop an understanding of the difficulties and stakes of imaginatively rendering climate change through speculative frameworks, and to explore the relationships between climate change, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and settler colonialism.