Syllabus Schedule
Spring 2011

 (Topics, Assignments, and Due Dates)

 

DATE

TOPIC/ACTIVITY

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

ASSIGNMENT DUE

 

Week 1

 

PART I -- SOCIO-CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC OVERVIEWS

January 19

Introduction and course overview. Film documentary: Can you Stop People from Drinking?

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

 

Week 2

 

January 24

Socio-cultural dimensions of drinking (Overview of patterns in American society and problematic social issues)

Venturelli: Ch 1, 4

Jurkiewicz: Ch 1, 7

 

January 26

 

Socio-cultural dimensions of drinking (continued)

 

Grant: Ch 1, 2, 6

Begin collecting clippings for media file

 

Week 3

 

January 31

Socio-cultural dimensions of drinking (continued)/ Begin Overview of the science of alcohol

Manzardo: Ch 4

Jurkiewicz: Ch 10

February 2

Overview of the science of alcohol (continued)

Braun: pp1-60 Manzardo: Ch 1-3

February 2 7:15pm

Stern 203

Film: Clean and Sober  - Room Stern 203

 

 

Week 4

 

February 7

Discuss film.  Discuss the paper thesis and integrating different perspectives.  Discuss project research strategies including World Wide Web internet resources, library research, and IRB issues.

 

February 9

 

How Alcohol Affects the Human Body

Braun: pp61-87

Grant:  Ch 4

Manzardo: Ch 5

 

Week 5

 

February 14

Drinking, Sex, and Gender

Film documentary:  Alcohol: A Women’s Health Issue

Knapp (all)

February 15 7:15pm Stern 303

Film: When a Man Loves a Woman  - Room Stern 303

 

February 16

Drinking, Sex, and Gender (continued)

Perkins (1992 & 2000)


 

 

Week 6

 

 

February 21

 

EXAMINATION #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART II – CAUSES OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND THEORIES OF ALCOHOLISM

 

 February 23

Begin theories of the development of alcohol abuse including self-derogation, peer influence, early exposure, social control models, and religious/ethnic influences

HWS College Alcohol Survey (test version-use test for password)

Venturelli: Ch 6, 7, 9

Grant: Ch 3

 

 

Week 7

 

 

 

February 28

Theories of alcohol abuse (continued)

Film documentary: Kids Under the Influence. 

Glasner article

Bales article

 

March 2

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (genetic/biological factors)

Manzardo: Ch 11, 12

 

                                                                      Week 8

 March 7

Film: Last Call: Alcoholism and Co-Dependency

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors)

Perkins & Berkowitz article

 

 March 9

Continue family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors)

PROPOSAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

 

March 12-20

Spring break

 

 

 

Week 9

 

 

 March 21

Film documentary: The Addicted Brain

Pharmacology of alcohol: neurochemical reinforcement mechanisms

Braun: pp88-106

 

 March 23

Film documentaries:  Drinking: Are You in Control?  And HBO:  Addictions

Manzardo: Ch 7, 14, 15, 16

 

 

Week 10

 

 

 March 28

Concepts of Addiction and Disease

Fingarette: Ch 1, 2, 3

 

 March 30

Concepts of Addiction and Disease

Fingarette: Ch 4, 5, 6, 7

 

 

Week 11

 

 

April 4

EXAMINATION #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PART III – PREVENTION ISSUES AND POLICY DEBATES

 

 April 6

Prevention strategies (Education, peer influence, minimum age laws)

Grant: Ch 7, 8

Jurkiewicz: 9, 12

 

 

Week 12

 

 

 April 11

Prevention strategies for youths (continued)

Perkins: Ch 1-7

Jurkiewicz: 4, 5

 

 April 13

The social norms approach to alcohol abuse prevention

Perkins: Ch 9, 10, 12, 14, 17 Jurkiewicz: Ch 8

 

 

Week 13

 

 

 April 18

Fetal alcohol syndrome

FAS Handout 1, 2

 

 April 20

Debates about strategies to control drunken driving and reduce fetal alcohol syndrome

Venturelli: Ch 17,18, 27,28

 

 

Week 14

 

 

 April 25

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

 

 

 April 27

 Film: Under the Influence.  BAC experiment.  Setting blood alcohol limits for workplace and driving

Review Braun: Ch 2, 3

Venturelli: Ch 25

 

 

Week 15

 

 

May 2

 

EXAMINATION #3

 

 

 

Finals Week

 

 

May 9

8:30-11:30am

Stern 303

Mandatory attendance for all students

Project Presentations

Info-Link screening

Course evaluations

FINAL PROJECT AND INFO-LINKS DUE