SOC 32200 - Drugs and Society

GER
3/B

The course focuses on the social, cultural and historical dimensions of drug use, and treats the causes and consequences of drug use and abuse as a social –rather than bio-physical phenomenon. Course topics may include: drug use as a universal phenomenon, regulatory issues related to drugs, especially in relation to race, class and subcultures; and drugs as a media phenomenon.

prereq: SOC 10100
3 hrs
3 cr