ENGL2020 CRN 14390Literature, Media & Culture

The game’s afoot! In this course, you will become a better observer, or “investigator,” of the world around you as you follow in the footsteps of the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Our semester together will help you develop critical observation skills both inside the classroom, through sensory activities, detective fiction, and film studies, and outside the classroom, through place-based education (PBE). For the first part of the course, you will closely analyze stories as “Sherlocks-in-training,” using Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character as a model for closely investigating places, spaces and people on the page. Then, in the second part, you will closely observe sites - physical places and social spaces - as “Sherlocks-in-action,” practicing close observation and investigation on and around campus through the rhetoric of place and space."