English 120 - COLQ:MYSTERIES& INVESTIGATIONS

Each colloquium is conducted by means of directed discussion, with emphasis on close reading and the writing of short analytical essays. Priority will be given to incoming students in the fall-semester sections of the colloquia. Other students should consult the course director about possible openings. Enrollment in each section limited to 20. A study of fiction, plays, and poetry about the investigation of mysteries, the ciphering and deciphering of plots, the guilt of investigators, and dubious solutions. Fiction by Poe, Dickens, Doyle, Faulkner, and others. Plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Stoppard and a film or two.