<p>Question for current students regarding the Sosc class Mind: It usually seems to be dismissed as a blowoff class. It's the class that most heavily interests me; all the others seem sort of dry to me.</p>
<p>So, what's up with that? Is the rep accurate?</p>
<p>I mean, it is not a traditional SOSC class and that is why people dismiss it often. I took Social Science Inquiry (the other “blowoff” SOSC class) and liked it (much more than I would have enjoyed Self or Power). You might get a higher percentage of “I really wish the core didn’t exist” people in the class, but I know of many who enjoyed Mind…</p>
<p>I’m a current first year who just switched into Mind from Classics of social and political thought. (Switching sosc classes is usually not allowed, but possible). Mind is just as much work as my previous Classics class: 1-page mini papers due every week, two medium sized (5 page) papers requiring us to synthesize research results, about 40-50 pages of reading a week but slightly more dense than Locke or Hobbes. </p>
<p>I think Mind and Social Science Inquiry get a bad rep because they aren’t typical sosc classes, and, by the way, Social Science Inquiry is ridiculously easy. But Mind is not, and it’s interesting.</p>
<p>please go on about the method of switching sosc classes mid-sequence…</p>