Syllabus Schedule (edited)

 (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 – ALCOHOL USE PATTERNS AND CONSEQUENCES

 

January 20

Introduction and course overview.

Film documentary: Can you Stop People from Drinking?

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

 

 

Week 2

 

 

January 25

Discuss film. Prevalence and consequences of use and cross-cultural comparisons

Venturelli: Ch 1, 4

Jurkiewicz: Ch 1, 7

 

January 27

Prevalence and consequences of use and cross-cultural comparisons (cont.)

Grant: Ch 1, 2, 6

Manzardo: Ch 4

 

 

Week 3

 

 

February 1

Prevalence and consequences (cont)

Begin Natural Science perspective on the effect of alcohol use

Manzardo: Ch 1-3

 

 

February 3

Overview of alcohol metabolism and how it affects brain function.

BAC demonstration

Braun: pp1-60

 

February 3
7:15 -9:30pm

Film: Clean and Sober  - Stern 304

 

 

 

Week 4

 

 

February 8

Discuss film.

Consequences of alcohol use on brain development in youth and adolescents.  Consequences of fetal alcohol exposure, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

NIAAA Alcohol Research and Health Articles on Canvas:  Warren ARH 2011, May ARH 2011, Tapert ARH 2005, Masten ARH 2009

 

February 10

 How Alcohol Affects the Body and Health Issues

Discuss the paper project and integrating different perspectives.

Braun: pp61-87

Grant:  Ch 4

Manzardo: Ch 5

 

 

Week 5

 

 

February 15

Drinking, Sex, and Gender

Film:  Alcohol: A Women’s Health Issue

Knapp (all)

 

February 15
7:15-9:30pm

Film: When a Man Loves a Woman  - Stern 304

 

 

February 17

Drinking, Sex, and Gender (continued)

Perkins (1992 & 2000)

 

 

Week 6

 

 

February 22

EXAMINATION #1

 

 

PART II – CAUSES OF PROBLEM DRINKING AND THEORIES OF ALCOHOLISM

 

February 24

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

 Venturelli: Ch 6, 7, 9

Grant: Ch 3

 

 

Week 7

 

 

February 29

Theories of alcohol abuse (continued)

HWS survey data on early onset alcohol consumption.

 

 

March 2

Theories of alcohol abuse (continued)

Film Excerpts from Kids Under the Influence

Film Excerpts from Selling Addiction

MEDIA REFLECTION AND AD EXAMPLES
Glasner article

Bales article

 

                                                                      Week 8

March 7

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (genetic/biological factors)

Manzardo: Ch 11, 12
+ Fingarette, pp51-55

 

March 9

Film: Last Call: Alcoholism and Co-Dependency

Family transmission of alcohol abuse (psychological and social factors)

Perkins & Berkowitz article

PROPOSAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

 

 

 

 

 

March 12-20

Spring break

 

 

 

Week 9

 

 

March 21

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

 

 

March 23

Film documentary: The Addicted Brain

Pharmacology of alcohol: neurochemical reinforcement mechanisms

Braun: pp88-106

 

 

Week 10

 

 

March 28

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

Manzardo: Ch 7, 14, 15, 16

 

March 30

Concepts of Addiction and Disease

Fingarette: Ch 1, 2, 3

 

 

Week 11

 

 

April 4

Concepts of Addiction and Disease

Fingarette: Ch 4, 5, 6, 7

 

April 6

EXAMINATION #2

 

 

 

Week 12

PART III – PREVENTION ISSUES AND POLICY DEBATES

 

 

April 11

Prevention strategy and theory

Grant: Ch 7, 8

Jurkiewicz: 9, 12

 

April 13

Prevention strategies for youths

Jurkiewicz: 4, 5

 

 

 

Week 13

 

 

April 18

The social norms approach to alcohol abuse prevention

Perkins: Ch 1-7

 

April 20

Social norms (cont)

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

Jurkiewicz: Ch 8

 

 

Week 14

 

 

April 25

Film: Under the Influence. Debates about strategies to control drunken driving.

Venturelli: Ch 17,18

 

April 27

Debates about strategies to reduce fetal alcohol syndrome.  Blood alcohol limits for workplace and driving

Venturelli: Ch 27,28 Venturelli: Ch 25

HWS policy, Herald op-ed

 

 

Week 15

 

 

May 2

 

EXAMINATION #3

 

 

 

Finals Week

 

 

May 7

7:00-10:00pm

Stern 304

Mandatory attendance for all students

Return exams and Project Presentations

FINAL PROJECT