It was in 2010 at the University of Minnesota. I actually got a degree in sociology, so I know from experience that the rest of the department was much more cr

It was in 2010 at the University of Minnesota. I actually got a degree in sociology, so I know from experience that the rest of the department was much more critically engaged. In my other classes, we were doing postcolonial studies of globalization, studying race/class/gender and reading Paulo Friere, Marx, etc. It was all solid. But this "Killing" class is where I discovered that the department was segregated into distinct "tracks". They had one for general sociological studies, and one for people who were going on to be police officers and lawyers: the "criminal justice" track. This "Killing" class was part of the criminal justice track. Later on, I took a class in CSCL (cultural studies and comparitive literature) called "Aliens" and found myself wishing I'd discovered CSCL sooner.