What does the future hold for us?

Many generations have asked this question, and some have tried to answer. In this unit, you will explore your initial beliefs regarding what you believe to be the most important developments and issues that humanity will face in the immediate and distant future. This understanding will act as a starting point for the exploration of your theme study through the detailed study of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. You will also investigate how future utopias and dystopias have been envisioned by other writers, film makers and artists to analyse what they have identified as the most vital concerns facing contemporary and future worlds. From your study of the various literary and artistic visions of the future you will create and present a range of three to five written and/or multimodal texts for specific audiences, purposes, contexts and forms in which you explore your own visions of the future.