SOCY1710 · Complex Problems and Enduring Questions
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMAN only. You must take GERM1701 with this course. This course examines the historical production, policing, and change of boundaries between normative social life and that condemned as ""deviant."" To deviate from powerful norms is to risk being repetitively ""othered"" by social control agents of various sorts--parents, priests, judges, doctors, and politicians. Who wins and who loses in this battle? Animated by a concern for social justice, the course invites students to reckon with how gendered, racialized, economic, and erotic rituals of power influence the contested construction of dominant and deviant expressions of religion, law, medicine, kinship, governance, commerce, bodily pleasure, and popular culture.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.3 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.7 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.5 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.3 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
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Across time
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Spring 2024
1 section