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Congratulations to our December 2011 Graduates!
• Davida Ballard
• Julia Burns
• Stacey Dunn
• Jamie East
• Grady Gillenwater
• Ann Hodges
• Daniel Jackman
• Derrick Johnson
• Barbara Jones
• Catherine Kahn ***
• Natasha Lake
• Katherine Maki °
• Patricia Marcellino
• Abby Merchant
• Melanie Moore
• Brittney Shaw
• Lenora Speller †
• Krystal Wells
• Audrey Yates
Spring 2012 Class Dates
1st BLS Session (POT A)
• 09 Jan: Session Begins
• 11 Jan: Add/Drop Ends
• 01 Feb: W Deadline
• 27 Feb: Session Ends
2nd BLS Session (POT B)
• 28 Feb: Session Begins
• 01 Mar: Add/Drop Ends
• 28 Mar: W Deadline
• 24 Apr: Session Ends
Full Semester (POT 1)
• 09 Jan: Session Begins
• 13 Jan: Add/Drop Ends
• 02 Mar: W Deadline
• 24 Apr: Session Ends
• 02 May: Exams End
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BLS 325: Mystery, Mayhem, & Murder
It was a dark night in the city that never sleeps. Almost anybody who reads this line would suspect that what they're reading is the beginning of a detective story. (And some alert readers will recognize that line as the opening to a case for detective Guy Noir, one of Garrison Keillor's characters on his radio show A Prairie Home Companion.) We're familiar with the genre from movies, television, books, even stories on the news. If we read because we love a good story, we read mystery and detective fiction because we love a good story that keeps us in the dark. This course explores the appeal of the mystery and detective story, as well as investigates the methods and approaches that writers use to make the genre work. The course is more generally about stories, about the way we make them and the way we come to understand and enjoy them.