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Subject: really neat upper division class From: Eric Matsuoka (ematsuok@hawaii.edu) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:15:01 -1000 You mentioned an EDEA class as an upper-division elective and it made me think of a really neat class that you may want to take. If you can fit SOC 336: Deviance and Societal Control (or something like that), from Dr. Herb Barringer (he lives in Kane`ohe, as if that matters) into your schedule next semester (or next summer), it's a neat class that doesn't take up gobs of study time. For one thing, the content is interesting. Society creates, then sanctions deviance. Not a study of the minds of individual weirdos (did you read Stacy Hayashi's diary regarding one particular weirdo who has "assumed" her physical image?), but studying weirdos from a societal perspective. The other plus is that getting an A is pretty easy! I took his class one summer (oh, god was it really that many years ago?) with a friend because she had heard about it from another friend and had the old exams. Better yet, the textbook was optional, so of course, no one bought it. Even better yet, he gave a review before the midterm and before the final. Best of all -- though this was not an actual class policy -- anyone who got an A on the mid-term got an A for the class (as long as they showed up for it). Dr. Barringer may not be as generous during the regular semester, but this the way he has run his summer class for many years. The prerequisite is SOC 100 (which I never took) or instructor's approval (which, at least during the summer, has always been given). I liked the class so much that when my girlfriend took the class the following summer, I sat in for the entire summer. If you do take the class, let me know. I'll see if I still have my old exams.