Via TVTattle, UC Berkeley is offering a class on The Wire in which students will have to read Theodore Dreiser’s ‘An American Tragedy’, among other works.

I like taking the tests on the internet that make me feel stupid (see what you do with this one), so a test on civics was right up my alley. At 81.8%, I scored better than 10 points above the November average, though fishing around in the findings, I learn that the average for the test is 49%. Ugly.

(Via DK)