Detailed Course Information |
Summer 2013
Jun 09,2026 |
|
 |
||
| ENG 121 - Detective Fiction |
|
College-level reading and writing skills (a passing grade in WR 115 or placement into WR 121) are strongly recommended for success.
Detective fiction will provide students with a broad introduction to both early and recent British and American writers, with some emphasis on novels and short stories translated into TV programs and film. The course will examine the origins of detective fiction and how the original models have been followed and altered in the roles of the amateur sleuth, the professional investigator (PI), the police, and local citizens as clients. The literature will include hard-boiled male and female detectives, as well as African American and Native American detectives, and will be read from the viewpoint of different literary theories, including historical and social viewpoints and addressing issues of gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, and nationality.
4.000 Credit hours 40.000 TO 48.000 Lecture hours Syllabus Available Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Lecture Humanities Division Writing/Literature Department Course Attributes: Tuition, Arts and Letters Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Credit May not be enrolled in one of the following Colleges: College Now |
| Return to Previous | New Search |
|