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I am really in favor of this idea (as well as some others), and love the suggestions you've made. Unlike the other two 'repliers' I have read science fiction before, and am very interested in perhaps looking at the historical significance and growth of the genre. Perhaps looking at some classics by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick (for example: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and comparing it with the movie "adaptation" Bladerunner or the related-in-title-and-vague-theme-only The Android's Dream by John Scalzi which is a good example of the modern generic of "sci-fi"), Heinlein, Jules Verne and going even further back to some of original short stories/movies that began the genre (this would take some reading of criticism but I know an influential piece to be Metropolis (a early German movie).

Perhaps we could also look at the idea of parody within the science fiction genre, reading both (or sections of) I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and the short story "I, Rowboat" by Cory Doctorow and other comparisons of this kind.