Papier de Recherche final

For practical reasons, the paper will be due on Friday, December 16th, at noon, not on Sunday since the last date for turning in final grades is Monday at noon.
You can work on whatever relevant topic you think you would be interested in writing for 10/12 pages in French.
Of course you can come to talk to me after the class or during my OH next week (see sign-on sheet on my door).

 
A few of the topics we covered during the course:

Social and philosophical utopia, time representation, human weakness as creature, individual/collective fears as covered in sci-fi movies, human evolution, genetic modification,  gods and human needs,scientific diputes and rivalries,  time representation, destiny and human race, the conquest of the universe,  sex and taboo,  central and networked human organizations of  sci-fi, reward and punishment in sci-fi society, bioethics, bionics, ecosystems, place and role of individual/collective memory in French sci-fi societies, beyond good and evil in French sci-fi,

urban planning, women in engineering, political organization in sci-fi, clash of civilization, race relations, human habitat, technology and tools, vehicules in sci-fi, patriarcal and matriarcal societies, republican and democratic ideals in French sci-fi productions, law and organized disorder,

science and imaginative fiction, history of sci-fi as cultural genre, supports of French sci-fi (book, comics, films), epics of space travel, women in sci-fi,inter-textuality and transmedial adaptations,illness as metaphor in sci-fi stories,representation of an "archaic " future, reactivation of the past and future in sci-fi productions, US cinematographic production and the world, transmodalization of textual and visual productions,representation of sex in sci-fi texts and films, cultural differences between US and French mentalities,French sci-fi B.D., French sci-fi main writers -- Verne, Arnaud, Brussolo--, human "sagas" as created by sci-fi, presence of Egypt and Assyria in texts and films, sci-fi and graphic imagination in French film and BD.

etc.
Hope this helps. Bon courage!