HARI SREENIVASAN:

Sociology professor Sherri-Ann Butterfield and literature and gender studies professor Fran Bartkowski .are co-teaching this 15-week course based on "The Wire" at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

The crime drama set in Baltimore, tackled a different aspect of the city's problems each season; from how gangs function to how the political class, and the press enable the problems to grow.