Mystery Fiction

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• $715 (EDP 867606) Proctored final exam

Mary Ann Koory, Ph.D., Extension Honored Instructor, earned her degree from UC Berkeley in English literature, and has lectured on Shakespearean and other literature for UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. She also teaches creative writing for novels and poetry for UC Berkeley Extension.

Textbook(s) for this course: A Murder is Announced
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication Year: 2011
ISBN: 006207363X

AND Bones and Silence
Author: Reginald Hill
Publisher: Dell
Publication Year: 1991
ISBN: 0440209358

AND Indemnity Only
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Dell
Publication Year: 1991
ISBN: 0440210690

AND The Maltese Falcon
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Publisher: Random House (Vintage Books)
Publication Year: 1989
ISBN: 0679722645

AND The Skull Beneath the Skin
Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Year: 2001
ISBN: 0743219562

AND English X103.9 Reader
To order this reader, please contact the Online department by e-mailing online@unex.berkeley.edu or by calling 510-643-8949.

X103.9 (3 semester units in English)

An elective in the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. Recipient of the Helen Williams Award for Excellence in Collegiate Independent Study from the American Association of Collegiate Independent Study.

Survey mystery fiction and its conventions, from the genre’s 19th-century origins to the classic Golden Age puzzle to the hard-boiled American female detective fiction of the 1990s. Understand the mystery novel’s status as a significant form of modern fiction, one that explores how human consciousness makes sense out of what might otherwise be viewed as random experience and meaningless violence.

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Courses are offered three terms per year: spring, summer, fall. Information about upcoming courses is available when enrollment opens each term.

• Spring term: Enrollment opens in early December. Classes begin in January.
• Summer term: Enrollment opens in early April. Classes begin in late May.
• Fall term: Enrollment opens in early July. Classes begin in August.

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