HIST 464 - The Social History of Murder

Credits: 3

Murder is a social act, and the way that society views this has changed dramatically since the eighteenth century. In addition to looking at changes in official responses to murder (detection, forensics, courtroom procedures, punishments) in the U.K. and the U.S., other topics include literary and theatrical representations of murder, urbanization and the rise of the serial killer, gender and ethnicity as defined by murder, the development of forensics, the rise of the literary detective (Sherlock Holmes and others), and the impact of the popularity of modern crime drama.

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity; Embedded Experience-Writing

Prerequisite(s): ENG 201 and sophomore Standing

Term(s) Offered: Every other spring

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