The table below provides information about the course's lecture (L) and quiz (Q) sessions.
Course calendar.
| ses # |
TOPICS |
kEY dATES |
| L1 |
Introduction |
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| L2 |
Some Preliminary Ideas |
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| L3 |
Alcohol in the U.S.
Movie: Reefer Madness |
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| L4 |
Alcohol Across Cultures
Guest Speaker: Alcoholics Anonymous |
|
| L5 |
"Primitive" Drugs
Documentary: The Peyote Road |
|
| L6 |
Drugs and American Counterculture
Movie: Timothy Leary is Dead |
|
| L7 |
Cocaine, Latin America and Globalization |
First paper due |
| L8 |
Cocaine Consumption |
|
| Q1 |
Quiz 1 |
|
| L9 |
Crack Dealers
Guest Speakers |
|
| L10 |
The War on Drugs |
|
| L11 |
The War on Drugs (cont.) |
|
| L12 |
Modern Pharmaceuticals: Sex |
|
| Q2 |
Quiz 2 |
|
| L13 |
Modern Pharmaceuticals: Prozac®
Documentary: Happy Valley |
|
| L14 |
Big Pharma |
Second paper due |