Thursday, July 12, 1979
Science fiction topics discussed at seminar
As the story of Skylab came to a burning close early yesterday afternoon, other tales of space were being discussed by a group of high school and college teachers enrolled in a science fiction seminar at the University of Kansas.
The seminar, called the Intensive English Institute on the teaching of science fiction, was organized by James Gunn, professor of English. Gunn said it was designed to provide a complete survey of science fiction, from its inception to its current publication. The seminar began July 9 and will last for three weeks.
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One of the purposes of the seminar, Gunn said, was to overcome the attitude among educators that science fiction is not worthy of serious study.
"Traditionally, science fiction has been read mainly by socially maladjusted adolescents," Gunn said in a class last night. "In science fiction, they could really relate to a society where everyone was weird."
Gunn, who has published 16 science fiction
novels and collections of stories, said science fiction had now replaced westerns and mysteries as the dominant fictional genre. Many modern fiction novels are published every month.
To help eliminate unfavorable attitudes and popularize the genre, Gunn organized the institute three years ago. He has been named a member of the Goldman, associate professor of English.
Gum said that even though a large percentage of the nation's universities offered science fiction courses, they were taught by professors who had no formal training on the subject.
The institute attempts to provide an understanding of what science fiction is, how it functions as literature, and how it can be taught, he said.
Three well-known science fiction writers, Frederick Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon and Gordon Dickson, will be working with institute participants this year.
Pohl will speak Sunday in the Forum Roan of the Kansas Union. Jurgeen is scared that he won't have enough money.
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