Scott D. Pierce: “The name of the course caught the attention of outlets like Fox News and the Daily Caller, which published snarky stories without understanding what it was really about.”
Converse Hall at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.Among the oddities in true-crime TV and in podcasts is the popularity of narratives about the often gruesome murders of white women. But when a pair of Westminster College professors used that as the jumping-off point for a course they titled Dead White Women, they got hate mail and — ironically — death threats.Not all true-crime shows are about the murders of women. And not all of those about the murders of women feature white victims.
In reality, the course investigates why the murders of white women are so often fodder for true-crime shows and podcasts. The class both teaches students to analyze true-crime podcasts and teaches them to create their own — a couple of shorter programs to begin with, and, eventually, a 20- to 40-minute podcast about a murder that happened in Utah.
“When I was a student at the University of Washington,” Stroud said, “there were a lot of classes that were given catchy names so that students would be interested in them. So it’s not a new phenomenon.Is it a “white” problem? “And do we learn anything from it? I don’t think we do,” she said, adding that, although some women claim “they want to know what to do when it happens to them, that’s not the reason.”There are 12 students in the class, which is about average for an upper-division class at Westminster. It’s a mix of female, male and nonbinary students.
And the course is not being taught to children. All of the students are over the age of 18, and most are in their 20s.
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