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Week 1 |
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PART I -- SOCIO-CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC OVERVIEWS |
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January 19 |
Introduction and course overview. Film documentary: Can you Stop People from Drinking? |
Begin reading Knapp ... look ahead and manage your time!) |
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Week 2 |
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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 |
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Socio-cultural dimensions of drinking (continued) |
Grant: Ch 1, 2, 6 Begin collecting clippings for media file |
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Week 3 |
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January 31 |
Socio-cultural dimensions of drinking (continued)/ Begin Overview of the science of alcohol |
Manzardo: Ch 4 Jurkiewicz: Ch 10 |
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February 2 |
Overview of
the science of alcohol (continued) |
Braun: pp1-60 Manzardo: Ch 1-3 |
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Film: Clean and Sober - Room Stern 203 |
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Week 4 |
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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. |
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How Alcohol Affects the Human Body |
Braun: pp61-87 Grant: Ch 4 Manzardo: Ch 5 |
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February 14 |
Film documentary: Alcohol: A Women’s Health Issue |
Knapp (all) |
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February 15 7:15pm Stern 303 |
Film: When a Man Loves a Woman - Room Stern 303 |
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February 16 |
Drinking,
Sex, and Gender (continued) |
Perkins (1992 & 2000) |
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Week 6 |
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February 21 |
EXAMINATION #1 |
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PART II – CAUSES OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND THEORIES OF ALCOHOLISM |
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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 |
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Week 7 |
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February 28 |
Theories of alcohol abuse (continued) Film documentary: Kids Under the Influence. |
Glasner article Bales article |
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March 2 |
Family transmission of alcohol abuse (genetic/biological factors) |
Manzardo: Ch 11, 12 |
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Week 8 |
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March 7 |
Film: Last Call: Alcoholism and Co-Dependency Family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors) |
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March 9 |
Continue family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors) |
PROPOSAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE |
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March 12-20 |
Spring break |
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Week 9 |
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March 21 |
Film documentary: The Addicted Brain Pharmacology of alcohol: neurochemical reinforcement mechanisms |
Braun: pp88-106 |
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March 23 |
Film documentaries: Drinking: Are You in Control? And HBO: Addictions |
Manzardo: Ch 7, 14, 15, 16 |
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Week 10 |
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March 28 |
Concepts of Addiction and Disease |
Fingarette: Ch 1, 2, 3 |
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March 30 |
Concepts of Addiction and Disease |
Fingarette: Ch 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Week 11 |
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April 4 |
EXAMINATION #2 |
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PART III – PREVENTION ISSUES AND POLICY DEBATES |
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April 6 |
Prevention strategies (Education, peer influence, minimum age laws) |
Grant: Ch 7, 8 Jurkiewicz: 9, 12 |
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Week 12 |
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April 11 |
Prevention strategies for youths (continued) |
Perkins: Ch 1-7 Jurkiewicz: 4, 5 |
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April 13 |
The social norms approach to
alcohol abuse prevention |
Perkins: Ch 9, 10, 12, 14, 17 Jurkiewicz: Ch 8 |
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Week 13 |
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April 18 |
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April 20 |
Debates about strategies to control drunken driving and reduce fetal alcohol syndrome |
Venturelli: Ch 17,18, 27,28 |
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Week 14 |
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April 25 |
Alcohol
in the mass media and advertising, film, Selling
Addiction |
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April 27 |
Film: Under the Influence. BAC experiment. Setting blood alcohol limits for workplace and driving |
Review Braun: Ch 2, 3 Venturelli: Ch 25 |
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Week 15 |
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May 2
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EXAMINATION #3 |
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Finals Week |
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May 9 8:30-11:30am |
Mandatory attendance for all students Project Presentations Info-Link screening Course evaluations |
FINAL PROJECT AND INFO-LINKS DUE |
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