Listed in: First Year Seminar, as FYSE-122
Francis G. Couvares (Section 01)
This course examines the changing ways that human beings have used psychoactive drugs and societies have controlled that use. After examining drug use in historical and cross-cultural perspectives and studying the physiological and psychological effects of different drugs, we look at the ways in which contemporary societies both encourage and repress drug use. We address the drug war, the disease model of drug addiction, the proliferation of prescription drugs, the images of drug use in popular culture, America’s complicated history of alcohol control, and international drug trafficking and its implications for American foreign policy. Readings include Huxley’s Brave New World, Kramer’s Listening to Prozac and Bromell’s Tomorrow Never Knows; films include Drugstore Cowboy and Traffic. This course will be writing attentive.
Fall semester. Professor Couvares.
Section 01
Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 210
Th 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM CHAP 210
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| They Say/I Say: Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, 2d ed. | Norton | G. Graf & C. Birkenstein | Recommended | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice | C. Reinarman & H. Levine | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Drugs: Should We Legalize, Decriminalize or Deregulate? | J. A. Schaler | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants | W. Schivelbusch | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Battling Demon Rum: Struggle for a Dry America | T. R. Pegram | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Listening to Prozac | P. Kramer | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.