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Class number:
1031
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Title: Viewing The Wire |
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Department: American Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Second Quarter |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Monday, July 10, 2023 |
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End date: Friday, August 11, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Schedule: TR: 6:00PM-9:15PM, N/A |
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Instructor(s): Conway, Nicholas |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Through analysis and dissection of David Simon's The Wire, this course seeks to equip students with the tools necessary to examine our postmodern society. The Wire seamlessly juxtaposes aesthetics with socio-economic issues, offering up a powerful lens for investigating our surroundings. Whether issues of unregulated free market capitalism, the bureaucracy of our school systems, politics of the media, false notions of equal opportunity, devaluation of human life, or a failed war on drugs, The Wire addresses the complexities of American urban life. Through a socio-political and cultural reading of the five individual seasons, students will be able to explore a multitude of contemporary problems. |