HLTHAGE 2L03
DRUGS, SEX AND ALCOHOL: SOCIETY AND ITS ADDICTIONS
Winter 2024 · C01
Topics
- Introduction - Introduction: What is a Drug? What is Addiction? (Jan 8 - 12)
- Hugh-Jones, “Coca, Beer, Cigars, and Yagé”
- Drugs as Sacred and Commercial Objects (Jan 15-19)
- Tutorials begin – see tutorial date assignment on Avenue to Learn.
- Breen, “The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World”
- The Invention of Addiction (Jan 22-26)
- May, “Pathology, Identity, and the Social Construction of Alcohol Dependence”
- The Drug Menace (Jan 29 - Feb 2)
- Carstairs, “Deporting ‘Ah Sin’ to Save the White Race”
- Midterm I (Feb 5-9)
- Midterm to be held over two days: multiple choice section (Feb 5) / long answer section (Feb 8)
- Herzberg, “Entitled to Addiction?”
- The War on Drugs in North America (Feb 12 / Feb 15)
- Lassiter, “Impossible Criminals”
Winter 2024 · T01
Topics
- Introduction - Introduction: What is a Drug? What is Addiction? (Jan 8 - 12)
- Hugh-Jones, “Coca, Beer, Cigars, and Yagé”
- Drugs as Sacred and Commercial Objects (Jan 15-19)
- Tutorials begin – see tutorial date assignment on Avenue to Learn.
- Breen, “The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World”
- The Invention of Addiction (Jan 22-26)
- May, “Pathology, Identity, and the Social Construction of Alcohol Dependence”
- The Drug Menace (Jan 29 - Feb 2)
- Carstairs, “Deporting ‘Ah Sin’ to Save the White Race”
- Midterm I (Feb 5-9)
- Midterm to be held over two days: multiple choice section (Feb 5) / long answer section (Feb 8)
- Herzberg, “Entitled to Addiction?”
- The War on Drugs in North America (Feb 12 / Feb 15)
- Lassiter, “Impossible Criminals”
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Fall 2025
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2024
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2024