NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 偵探小說(3083)
(Eng.) Detective Fiction
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher JUDY,RONALD
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
The main objective of this course is to give students an overview of detective fiction a) as it has grown up in the United States, and b) as it has developed outside the US, from Englad to Argentina, Japan, and Korea. The goal is to establish a general idea of detective fiction, but also to suggest the idea of detective fiction as a genre highly suited to comparative analysis and an understanding of ideas about guilt, criminality and the law.
topic Discussion/Production
Discussion
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 What is detective fiction? Plans/expectations
Week 2 Edgar A. Poe, “The Purloined Letter”
Week 3 Dashiell Hammett, “A Man Called Spade”
Week 4 Film, ”The Maltese Falcon”
Week 5 Raymond Chandler, “Red Wind”
Week 6 Ross MacDonald, “Find the Woman”
Week 7 Sue Grafton, ”Between the Sheets”
Week 8 Film, watch Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Week 9 Short Quiz week
Week 10 A. C. Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia”
Week 11 (BBC) Sherlock, ”A Scandal in Belgravia”
Week 12 Edogawa Rampo, TBA
Week 13 watch ”Private Eye” (2009)
Week 14 Georges Simenon, ”Death Threats”
Week 15 Henning Mankell, ”The Man with the Mask”
Week 16 J-L Borges, “Death and the Compass”
Week 17 Film: TBA
Week 18 Review
Evaluation
Short midterm quiz
Textbook & other References
My pdf files/reader
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

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