LIT 140 Crime Stories
3 hours
The crime story can hold a cracked mirror up to society’s ideas about justice, violence, community and the law—but what it reflects is rarely pretty. Whether the focus is detective fiction, criminal biographies, courtroom dramas, or true-crime narratives, this course will explore what literature is capable of expressing while confronting the hard questions that crime stories can raise about power, race, privilege, gender, sexuality, and national borders.
Prerequisite
None
Notes
This course satisfies the Flexible Core: Creative Expression area of the Gen Ed Program.