FYS 58 Detective Fiction: Investigating Our World
This course will look critically at stories of detection, from their emergence in the early stages of modernization to their ubiquity today, so as to ask what the detective figure can tell us about our evolution into the present: from what it means to be a reasonable problem solver in the first place to what problem solving can do when confronted with challenges that seem to undermine the simple rationality to which investigation first appealed.
Open only to first-year frosh.