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Feb 18, 2025
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STSS 4430 - Drugs in History
This course teaches basic historical, anthropological, and sociological concepts that can be used to make sense of a wide variety of contemporary phenomena students encounter in everyday life. The focus is on analyzing how licit and illicit drugs serve as “technologies” within specific social contexts or subcultures; what drug policy reveals about social, political, and economic organization; and the impacts of biomedical knowledge and practice on specific population groups. Also a focus is the representation of drug use and drug users in popular culture, science and medicine, and history and the social sciences. This is a communication-intensive course.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: 1000-level course (or higher) in STS.
When Offered: Fall term annually.
Cross Listed: Cross listed as STSH 4430. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and STSH 4430.
Credit Hours: 4
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