Syllabus, Spring 2001

 

DATE

TOPIC/ACTIVITY

(shaded rows denote meetings outside of the regularly scheduled class time)

(superscripts denote optional supplementary resources)

ASSIGNMENT DUE

 

PART I -- SOCIO-CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC OVERVIEWS

Week 1

 

 

August 28

DC & WP

Introduction and Course Overview. Film documentary: Can you Stop People from Drinking?

Begin reading Knapp ... look ahead and manage your time!)

August 30

WP (dc) get slide projector)

Review Syllabus in detail.  Film documentary: Kids Under the Influence Sociocultural Dimensions of Drinking (Overview of Patterns in American society and problematic social issues)†(Ch1,11), 4

Review Syllabus Venturelli: Ch1,2,4

 

Week 2

 

 

September 4

(wp)  (dc slide proj)

 

Sociocultural Dimensions of Drinking (cont);

 

Grant: Ch 1,2

 

September 6

DC and WP in New Jersey

Sociocultural Dimensions of Drinking (cont);

 

 Grant: Ch 6

Week 3

 

 

September 9, 7 pm

NP 201

Film: Clean and Sober 

 

September 11

DC wp gone

Overview of the science of alcohol.†(Ch4), 18, 20

 

Baum: pp1-60

Storti: Ch 2,3

September 13

DC wp gone

How Alcohol Affects the Human Body (cont)

Discuss Info-Link and Project Ideas

Baum: pp61-87

 

 

 

Week 4

 

 

September 18

WP; surveys in mail on Wednesday

 How Alcohol Affects the Human Body (cont)

Grant:  Ch4

Storti: Ch5

Sept 18, 7-8:30

NP201

Film: When a Man Loves a Woman 

 

September 20

DC; students get surveys

Drinking, Sex, and Gender9,23, 24.

Knapp (all)

 


 

Week 5

 

 

 

September 24

 

Infolink Filming Begins

 

September 25

DC

Drinking, Sex, and Gender9,23, 24. (cont)

Perkins (1992 & 2000)

 

September 27

DC(wp gone)

Developing the paper thesis and integrating disciplinary perspectives.  Discuss project research strategies including World Wide Web internet resources and library research.

PAPER TOPIC PROPOSALS INFO-LINKS

 

Week 6

 

 

 

October 2

WP

EXAMINATION #1 (covers part I through September 25)

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART II – CAUSES OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND THEORIES OF ALCOHOLISM

 

 

 

 

 

October 4

WP

Return Proposals, Examinations, and Infolink

 

Begin theories of the development of alcohol abuse including self‑derogation, peer influence, early exposure, social control models, and religious/ethnic influences.†(Ch6), 6, 15, 17, 19

 

 

 

Venturelli:Ch 6,7,9

 

 

Week 7

 

 

 

October 9

Fall Recess --- No class

 

 

 

October 11

DC & WP

Theories of alcohol abuse (cont).

 

Gusfield article

Grant: Ch3

 

Week 8

October 16

WP

Theories of alcohol abuse (cont).

 

Venturelli:Ch10, + Glasner and Bales articles;

 

October 18

DC & WP

Screening Film: The Addicted Brain

Pharmacology of alcohol: neurochemical reinforcement mechanisms †(Ch5), 18

Storti: Ch 6,7,8

Baum: pp88-106

Venturelli: Ch3

 


 

Week 9

 

 

 

October 21, 8 pm

Cox 8

Film: 28 Days  (room TBA)

 

October 22, 7:30pm

Thinking about Drinking: Faculty Perspectives (room TBA)

 

October 23

WP

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (biological factors)†(Ch3)

Fingarette: Ch1,2,3

THESIS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

October 25

DC

Film: Last Call: Alcoholism and Co-Dependency

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors)2,3, 12

 

Perkins /Berkowitz article.

Week 10

 

 

October 30

WP

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors)2,3, 12 (cont)

 Infolink filming begins

November 1

Concepts of Addiction and Disease28

Fingarette: Ch 4,5,6,7

Week 11

 

 

 

November 6

Concepts of Addiction and Disease28 (cont)

INFO-LINKS

November 8

EXAMINATION #2  (Covers part II)

 

November 8, 8pm

Sanford Rm

Film: Traffic (room TBA)

 

 

 

 

PART III – PREVENTION ISSUES AND POLICY DEBATES

Week 12

 

 

November 13

Return Exams; Prevention strategies for youths (Education, peer influence, minimum age laws).†(Ch12), 11, 25, 261

Venturelli:Ch14,5,19

Grant: Ch 8

 

November 13, 7:30pm

Faculty Panel on Criminalization/Legalization of Drug Use (room TBA)

 

November 15

Prevention strategies for youths (cont.)

 

Week 13

 

 

November 20

The social norms approach to alcohol abuse prevention

Research Bulletin & selected handouts

Begin collecting ads for media file

 

THANKSGIVING RECESS

 

Week 14

 

 

November 27

Film: Under the Influence.  BAC experiment.  Setting blood alcohol limits for workplace and driving †(Ch10),13

Grant: Ch 7

Review Baum: Ch2,3

Venturelli:Ch25

November 29

Debates about controlling drunken driving 8, 22, 27

Preventing fetal alcohol syndrome †(Ch9), 7, 9, 10

Venturelli:Ch17,18 Venturelli:Ch27,28

Week 15

 

 

December 3

 

Infolink filming begins

December 4

Alcohol in the mass media and advertising, film, Selling Addiction 14

Bring Mass Media File

 to class

December 6

EXAMINATION #3

Bring Media File to examination

INFO-LINKS

Examination Week

 

 

December 13

1:30-4:30 pm

NP 201

Info-Link screening; Project Presentations;

Course evaluations

FINAL PROJECT SUBMISSION DUE