Skip to main content

Know Your Madisonian: Shawn Peters uses ‘The Wire’ to help teach UW course

Shawn F. Peters was so captivated by the HBO series “The Wire,” he was sure his students would be, too. So the UW-Madison instructor decided to make the Baltimore-centric drama the centerpiece of his fall course, Integrated Liberal Studies 275: Narratives of Justice and Equality in Multicultural America. Peters, 45, coordinates teaching and learning at UW-Madison?s Center for Education Opportunity.