Deviant Survival Guide: Syllabus

Syllabus
Deviant Survival Guide
Copyright 2006 by drewkitty


[Author's Comments: the class format was intended to help get people's attention. This is not an actual class. Just about the only restriction I put on this material is that it not be used to teach an actual college class. If someone does, I will point out his academic dishonesty at a high enough level to make him at least as unemployable in academia as I am.]


This is a ten week course consisting of ten written lectures delivered via LJ with brief homework (mostly Web links), a midterm project and a final exam.

I am free to offer this course as I am no longer affiliated with any particular state university system.

No credits or units are awarded, although if you really want a certificate, I will issue you one, under the authority vested in me by the Universal Life Church of America. It is worth the paper you print it out on.

Lecture 1: Definitions of Deviance
Lecture 2: Societal Reactions to Deviants
Lecture 3: Agents of Social Control: Introduction
Lecture 4: Police and Public Control ("Men In Blue")
Lecture 5: Management, Security, ChexSystems and Other Private Controls
Lecture 6: The Private Sphere (or Your Home Is Not Your Castle)
MIDTERM Project: "The Inverted Pyramid, Point Down On Your Head"
Lecture 7: Information Defense Techniques (OpSec and InfoSec)
Lecture 8: Physical Security Techniques
Lecture 9: Personal Security and Defense
Lecture 10: Discretion vs. Recruitment, Summary and Conclusions
Final Exam: "Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance"

I will post weekly on Thursdays. The course will be more or less detailed based on people's expressed interest.

Deviant Survival Guide: 2006 Index

Index
Deviant Survival Guide
Copyright 2006 by drewkitty


The following sections are complete and are being posted.

Syllabus
Interlude - A Quick Political Quiz
Lecture 1: Definitions of Deviance
Lecture 2: Societal Reactions to Deviants
Lecture 3: Agents of Social Control: Introduction
Lecture 4: Police and Public Control ('Men In Blue')
Practicum: Media Manipulation
Interlude: The Authoritarian Reading List
Lecture 9: Personal Security and Defense
Interlude: On Photo IDs
Interlude: Boundaries
Interlude: Charlie Tango
Practicum: Listening
Practicum: The Federal Agent

The following are "To Be Continued" and not yet posted.

Lecture 5: Management, Security, ChexSystems and Other Private Controls
Lecture 6: The Private Sphere (or Your Home Is Not Your Castle)
MIDTERM Project: "The Inverted Pyramid, Point Down On Your Head"
Lecture 7: Information Defense Techniques (OpSec and InfoSec)
Lecture 8: Physical Security Techniques
Lecture 9: Personal Security and Defense [continued]
Practicum: Escape & Evasion (also known as E&E)
Lecture 10: Discretion vs. Recruitment, Summary and Conclusions

Final Exam: "Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance"

Deviant Survival Guide: The Revenge

Various of you may know that I composed various posts from 2004 to 2006 under the loose heading of "Deviant Survival Guide." This was partly financed by an anonymous contribution to my LiveJournal (thank you!) . . . but mostly by the US Department of Education's Direct Loans program.

I admit to bias due to my experiences at various campuses of a certain major California university system with administrative offices in Oakland and oversight by a board of Regents.

Thanks to a number of third party LJ manipulation tools, I am now cleaning these up and posting them to blogspot under official titles and chronology.

Comments are welcomed.

SWAT team hand signals

I recovered this from where it had been stuck (in LJ's "Unsorted Gallery") and wanted to share with everyone.

SWAT Team Signals [515K]

You may need to click on the loaded image to zoom it in.

2019 update: in the one sense, this has been lost forever. Archive.org does not have it and it would take a deep search of my box of hard drives to find it.

In the more direct sense, it's all over the place. See here: https://www.google.com/search?q=swat+team+hand+signals

my first post

Putting money where my mouth is . . . I am no longer posting to LJ. Instead I will post via Blogger and feed it to LJ that way.