University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
New sci-fi classes make landing at KU
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
The magical world of "Dune" and the extraterrestrial creature E.T. may someday disappear in a time warp, only to be replaced by science fiction heroes developed by students from the University of Kansas.
A science fiction writers workshop and a science fiction literature course will be offered this summer for the first time at KU, said James the director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, yesterday.
Gunn said requests from students and others interested in science fiction had prompted the University to offer the courses.
The three-hour courses will replace the Intensive English Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction, a three-week intensive workshop that
was taken primarily by writers and teachers of science fiction.
GUNN SAID HE hoped students would enroll in the workshop with the intention of learning how to write stories that well enough to spill their stories.
Gunn said he would teach students in the workshop the difference between science fiction and other forms of fiction.
Writing good science fiction makes certain demands on the author, he
"He has to create a recognizable world in which a significant difference exists from our world," Gunn said. "It's a world that doesn't matter." Fantasy isn't an fantasy world. Fantasy doesn't have to be plausible. Science fiction has to be."
Gunn said the readers had to be able to recognize how the world in a science fiction novel was different from the real one.
SCIENCE FICTION IS primarily the literature of change, he said. The purpose of science fiction is to focus on how the world could change and people's emotional response to change.
"Science fiction wasn't possible until the 19th century. We couldn't have literature of change until humanity recognized change was possible or even desirable." Gunn said.
Goldman said the purpose of science fiction was to startle the reader into thinking about changes in the world.
Stephen Goldman, associate director of the center who will teach the literature class said, "Science is because of its imaginary powers."
In order for the students to grasp the fundamental characteristics of science fiction, Gunn said he explained who began the literary form,
how it evolved and how it was recognized as a genre today.
PART OF THE reason Gunn said he thought people were interested in a writers workshop was because the interest in science fiction had grown.
Goldman said, "Over the last 10 years science fiction probably has been the most popular course in popular literature."
The literature course and the writing course will be taught separately, but people who take both courses will see a connection, Goldman said. The text for the literature course will be the four volumes of Gunn's "The Road to Science Fiction."
Goldman said he would not tell students the meaning of the stories. Instead, the students will be able to determine on their own how science fiction grows from technological, political and economic events.
Science library plans reduced to 2 options
By HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporter
The New Science Library Building Committee yesterday narrowed its sights on two plans for the new science and technology library, one of which may include the removal of a former building north of the Military Science building.
Construction of the library is scheduled to begin as early as 1987.
The two plans selected from the nine presented in January by the Kansas City, Mo., architectural firm of Peckham, Guyton, Albers, and Viets Inc. were detailed at yesterday's two-hour meeting.
One plan would put the library south of Hoch Auditorium and parallel to Jayhawk Boulevard in the first phase and a second phase would expand the library south to the Military Science Building or north into Hoch, which would force renovation of Hoch.
JIM RANZ, DEAN of libraries, said the American Elm tree probably would be destroyed if the library
extended south to the Military Science Building.
A second plan would connect the library to the south end of Hoch in the first phase and include the renovation of Hoch in the second phase.
The first phase is scheduled for completion in 1990 and will cost $13.9 million. The Joint Committee on State Building on Wednesday approved final planning money of $450,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $13.4 million for construction.
The library will include space for materials in the primary sciences, computer science, geography, architecture, mathematics and the map collection and government documents now stored in the basement of Spencer Research Library.
"Now what the architects are trying to do is show us what the alternatives for each plan are, and the advantages and disadvantages of both," said Ranz.
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