TEACHSOC: Re: Senior Level Deviance Course

[Marty Schwartz]

For what it is worth, the ASA guide is not much of a syllabi set, but rather leans heavily toward short essays, deep intellectual thoughts, exercises, annotated guide to web sites, etc.  Only because I co-edited it with Mike Maume, I will mention that we have such things as a wonderful debate between Keith Crew and Steve Muzzati on whether the course should be taught as "nuts, sluts and preverts" (my way of teaching it), or as a highly theoretical course.  There is a discussion by Alex Thio on how to deal with the conundrum of teaching homosexuality in a deviance course, and a great piece by Victoria Pitts on how to seize the moment to incorporate queer theory as a wedge into deeper issues.  And so it goes.

Marty

--On Friday, August 19, 2005 8:12 AM -0400 "Ender, M.  DR  BS&L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Folks, we're considering offering an upper-division Deviance/Social
> Control seminar next Spring.  I haven't taught the course in 10 years.
> I'll purchase the ASA syllabi collection, but I'm wondering if anyone
> has some fairly recent ideas/topics/course guides/syllabi or general
> recommendations.  I'm looking to be attractive to sociology majors
> leaning toward criminology interests and law majors...thanks, morten
>




Martin D. Schwartz
Professor and Research Scholar
Ohio University

Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Justice
Co-Editor,
Criminal Justice: The International Journal of Policy and Practice