Another great semester has gone by in a blink of an eye. I'd been anticipating to teach this course for about a year since winning the departmental competition. Every year, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta hosts a competition for PhD candidates to create a course that they'd like to teach in the following winter term. It's not as easy as it sounds and competition was fierce! I'm thankful for the opportunity.
Students for this class were required to create a Holmesian adaptation of their own design as part of their final assignment. Here are a few samples of their awesome works! Students submitted short stories, comic book adaptations, card games, and I had one student who created a mystery/puzzle app for the Android!
If you're interested in course materials, check out my syllabus & reading list !
At the beginning of the semester, we had the local Sherlockian Society, The Wisteria Lodgers, give a very special guest lecture!
We also had my colleague SKYPE in from the University of Toronto to share her research on Sherlock Holmes!
With the permission from students, I shared their works at the monthly Wisteria Lodgers' meeting! We were all so impressed!
And what better way to end the semester than with SHERLOCK inspired cupcakes from Whimsical Cake Studio! Click to enlarge images (P.S. might cause drooling)