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What will future humans look like? Will technology or mutations alter our bodies to survive on other planets? Will widespread cloning create a population of genetic copies? Even as we celebrate the advances in genetics that make imagined futures more realistic, we need to acknowledge that these impulses are often rooted in schools of thought -- for example, eugenics -- that want to alter racial and other biological characteristics of future generations. In this class, we'll use science fiction to extrapolate what might happen as the natural processes of growth and change continue to be disrupted or rerouted by human intervention. Through the lens of disability studies, students will be invited to rethink how we talk about changing human bodies and which bodies society seems willing to let disappear.