Hurricanes. Wildfires. Methane bubbles. Pandemics. Climate change fiction is full of apocalyptic predictions about the future, depicting it as either an impending catastrophe or a creeping reality.  Authors speculate about how planetary changes might affect human relationships.  Will mass migrations occur?  Will communities turn on each other, battling for dwindling resources?  Or will utopian communities emerge? This course explores this topic through speculative fiction, which is the narrative equivalent of computer modeling, playing out current realities to possible conclusions.  By imagining what might happen, based upon the current science, they create a harrowing image of the future.  Other fiction writers we will read simply describe what is already happening:  flooding islands, disappearing reefs, changing migration patterns, and so on.  To understand how climate change works, we will ground ourselves in the basics with selections from The Global Warning Reader as we read selections of apocalyptic fiction about climate change. This course will give you a sense of how climate change is affecting how we think and feel about the future, and how it is impacting the structure of stories themselves.  (Cross listed with PEA_ST 2005)