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Article: Popular TV comes to the classroom
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 7, 2001
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Obsessed with a favorite TV series? We've got a course you can't
refuse, say many colleges and universities:
Your parents were hooked on "The Godfather," and now you have the
same fascination for HBO's "The Sopranos." Take the Organized Crime
class at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.
"It's a survey of the history of organized crime in the United
States, and then branches out to study the different groups that
exist today, like prison or street gangs and drug cartels," says
Anthony Pesare, associate professor and dean of the school of justice
studies. The course covers sociological theories and trends to
explain why organized crime exists.
"It also covers the efforts against ...